OVER 60? How to Sell Your Home: The Rules Have Changed!!

Are you wondering how to sell your home if you're over 60? Or maybe you're thinking you need to sell your home fast? This video is your ultimate guide to getting your home ready to sell. Packed with essential real estate tips, it’s the perfect resource to help you learn how to sell your home quickly and efficiently. Don't miss out on the advice you need to make your home sale a success!

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00:00 Intro
00:21 Donna's Story
05:13 What Today's Buyers' Want
08:14 Seller's Playbook
10:52 Power of Pricing
11:43 Inspections
14:14 Real Cost Of Selling Your Home
16:41 Prepping Your Home Matters
19:40 Decluttering
21:09 Market Uncertainties
21:50 The Right Real Estate Agent
23:27 Get An Agent!
25:02 What are Lock Box Agents?
27:42 Correct Timing
29:21 Buying Your Next Home
30:27 Managing Your Emotions
32:08 Your Money Is Worth Stress

#sellingahome #seniorliving #downsizing

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[KatiSpaniak]

Thanks for watching! Here are the links I talk about in the video!
⭐ DOWNLOAD our FREE Seller's Playbook: bit.ly/SellerPlaybook73 🔥

[Riggsnic_co]

fear a housing crash due to people buying homes above asking prices with little equity. If prices drop, affordability and potential foreclosures may arise, worsened by future layoffs and rising living costs. I want to invest more than $300k, but I'm not sure on how to mitigate risk.

[kristenspencer]

On the OTHER hand...my sister and husband sold their house in CA. They did new flooring, new counters etc. A few weeks after close, they came by to pick up mail and the new owners were ripping everything out. She was shocked! Happens all the time. So as long as things are in good condition...let the new guys update to their heart's content!

[ellenfoster]

I followed Katie’s “fake it, make it, take it” advice when selling the house my kids grew up in, built in 1996. It was dated with an original kitchen and bathrooms, with wood cabinets/ vanities. I had the first floor and the primary bedroom and bathrooms painted in sea Pearl- a warm greige. Th3 bedrooms all had carpet which I had steam cleaned. I painted one vanity, cleaned up the kitchen cabinets, and refinished the wood vanities in another bathroom. I did not replace dated floors or the laminate countertops. I made sure it was spotlessly clean, took out most of the furniture, and brought in decor I bought cheap on Amazon after searching for “ modern decor”. My real estate agent had a professional photographer with a drone. It sold in one weekend, with 4 offers more than the asking price. Could we have gotten a bit more? Maybe but the immediate sale was so WORTH it. The lack of stress and reduced ongoing costs made my life so much easier.

[nicolasbenson]

The housing market is inflated and oversaturated with homes being on the market with astronomical price tags just stagnant for months. It is very clear that our generation will be likely one of the most devastating bubble pops in modern history. Seeking best possible ways to grow 250k into $1m+ and get a good house for retirement, I'm 54.

[lindawilson]

Great video!
The best advice I can give is 1) Once you decide to sell your home it is no longer your home. It's a house. Take the emotion out. 2) Listen to your agent, do what they say, and get out of their way. Let them do their job. Make it easy for them to do what you are paying them to do. If you do those two things the rest will fall into place.

[butterflygirl]

Um, your buying a used house. I’m not “updating” it so that it’s new. The heating/cooling, appliances and electrical system will work and be up to code. You want 2024 decorating? Hire a decorator after the purchase to paint all the walls grey, put in fake wood floors and white plastic kitchen cabinets. You don’t get a “personally” decorated used home. I have a three bedroom, three full bath house right outside NYC on a beautiful piece of land in a suburb with an A+ school system. If any of the HGTV crowd are able to afford it, they can HGTV decorate it themselves. I’m busy too.

[chiplangowski]

I laughed when you said that today's buyers know everything because they did their research and then you used the example of Google Earth. If you look up any street view image of my home it is more than 3 years old (the images have a 2021 date on them) and my house doesn't look anything like that now. New siding, different colors, trees removed, all new landscaping. Perhaps these people aren't as smart as they think they are.

[niecek.]

We saw the writing on the wall and started cleaning, clearing out, garage sales, donating, painting everything white, & renovating.
Then four years later we put our house up and sold in a few weeks-no open house, Realtor priced it right🥰. We fixed everything on their list-it wasn’t too much money because we went through a list of our own before. We moved out with the help of a moving company, donating & large garbage bin, stored furniture, lived with a relative for a month. Bought in a 55+, put offers in on 2 homes, one house met our counter 🎉
4 years later-happy! Did it right before spring of 2020! Best decision ever🎉 Took so much stress off us at the age of 62, we retired early after buying a smaller home=smaller bills ❤
Sold in the Fall 😁🎃
A great Realtor really does make a huge difference!

[angelad]

I am so tired of buyers complaining about home prices when they expect HGTV ready homes. We are all busy. Expectations are no longer matching reality. It costs money and time to make the home HGTV ready so the seller expects to recoup that money and when the buyer comes back and expects further reductions, instead of negotiating up front, of course the seller gets upset. It's time for a reality check

[sanfranman]

Nicely done! I’ve bought and sold tens of homes over the past 40 years, including personal residences and investment homes. I’ve never seen advice as level-headed and “appropriate” as what you have offered here. Good work!

[SelfEsteemCorner]

You might want to reconsider your comments regarding older real estate agents. Age discrimination in the workplace is very common, and making generalizations about real estate agents based solely on their age is not appropriate.

[zerozero]

When I sell a home, I have an inspection company out FIRST to uncover any potential problems and fix them before listing.

[lindahusson]

I totally agree about the declutter, I had so much stuff and after my husband died my daughter and her husband moved in with me, I asked them too as one of them got very sick, I gave them free reign to decorate the way the way they would like. Well the difference is Amazing! I never thought my home could look this good. Loving it 🩷🩷🩷🩷

[virginiamoss]

Young, trendy buyers can make any house they are lucky enough to buy into their own home themselves. They should be happy to get any house they can afford and then make any changes they want over time or none at all and make do. That's true today and absolutely in the past; this is nothing new.

[cydonia]

I wish I could send your videos to my neighbor. She just put her home on the market and it is wildly overpriced. The carpet is old, several rooms have wallpaper, the furniture and appliances are probably 15-20 years old and the "art" she has consists of wooden plaques and dried flowers. But she is also extremely emotionally attached to the home. She and her husband rehabbed it from the ground up with the help of her father, friends and neighbors. They raised their children in that home. It is a beautiful home and well maintained but the interior needs updating, and I don't think she understands what younger people are looking for in a home. Great advice you are giving to older people trying to sell homes!

[tomdownes]

I've rented and flipped a few homes in Pittsburgh area for 30 years. Kati is hitting the bullseye on all topics.
No fluff in her videos, straight to point, no B.S.

[Toni_Snark]

Here in Texas, I see so many homes listed that have every room a different color, heavy, old dark furniture, and drapes with swags and animal trophies everywhere. You just can't get the best offers with all that to deal with. Sellers are still attached to their houses and ca'n't get into the mindset of "neutral and depersonalized SELLS!" and the right price, of course.

[joannacurran]

Being a 73 professional we are all busy people and always have been. Spending time on smartphone/computer does not equal busy.

[signespencer]

I sold my house of 25 years. I had a great agent, Robin Miller of Remax in the Boston area, She gave great advice, which I followed. Got a great price. And I am so much happier in my new place, having shed literal tons of old, no longer needed possessions.