Posted on : 13-05-2010 | By : admin | In : New Home For Sale
Sellers want top dollar for their homes, but few are aware that there’s more to it than luck and marketing. In this market, selling a Newport Beach home takes a mix of planning, creativity and market savvy. Read on for a simple ten-step guide to preparing your Newport Beach home for sale.
1. Focus on the facts. Many sellers have trouble dissociating from their homes, and this emotional attachment can keep them from taking things forward. Start by looking at your home as a product to be sold, nothing more. This will make your decisions a lot clearer.
2. Neutralize your design. A potential buyer looks at a Newport Beach home and pictures it as his own, with his own photos and paintings and artifacts. Strip your walls of any personal décor, so buyers can better picture themselves living in your space.
3. Get rid of clutter. It’s surprising how much junk people collect over the years—and how much bigger your home looks and feels without them. Discard things you haven’t used in a year, remove unnecessary furniture, and free up as much floor space as possible.
4. Check storage. Home buyers are more likely to visit a Newport Beach home for sale that offers ample storage. Organize your closets and cabinets so they’ll look cleaner and more spacious—it also suggests that the rest of the home is well taken care of.
5. Find temporary storage. Some stylish furniture and appliances won’t hurt, but they take up a lot of floor space. Rent a storage space for all the big stuff you don’t want to show. Leave just one or two pieces in each room to show what its purpose is.
6. Remove your favorites. Before putting up your Newport Beach home for sale, remove any items you absolutely want to take with you. That way, you don’t risk blowing the deal by refusing to give away a family heirloom or a piece of antique furniture.
7. Fix what you can. Even minor flaws are amplified in the eyes of a careful buyer. Replace any cracked tiles, broken knobs, leaky faucets. Consider repainting in a neutral color, so you don’t turn off buyers who don’t like green walls or an electric blue bath.
8. Clean and scrub. Your Newport Beach home should look as spotless in person as it does in pictures. Wash windows on both sides, spray down the driveway and exterior, and scrub everything until it sparkles—it’s a lot of work, but it’s well worth the effort.
9. Take a fresh look. Step outside your home for a while and put yourself in the buyer’s shoes before reentering. Would you put your life’s biggest investment and spend the next few years in this Newport Beach home? If you say yes, then you’re almost done.
10. Work on your exterior. Finally, work on making a good first impression. Curb appeal is what draws buyers in and makes them want to enter your home. Clear the sidewalks and driveway, mow the lawn, and make sure there’s a clear path to your front door.
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Do I have to pay capital gains tax on $75k home sale profit if owned < 2 years?I'm selling my house for $75,000 profit. It's my primary residence, but I've only owned it for 14 months. I'm not moving b/c of any special circumstances
(no job change, no health reasons, no life changes, etc). I'm planning on using all the proceeds towards buying a new home. Do I still have to pay a capital gains tax?
Not only can you not take a deduction for a loss on the sale of your personal home you may have a tax liability if this transaction involved any canceled debt.
The IRS will take their liens first and then if there is anything to be divided they will send you a check although if you can prove your half is sufficient for the tax years involved they may cut you some slack but i highly doubt it .
Hello. The usual commission for the sale of a home is 6%, split between the buyer's agent and the seller's agent, unless the same broker handles both parties.
You are being lied to for some reason or another. If you have a signed purchase and sale agreement with yours, the seller's and your respective representatives. Then there is nothing the seller's mortgage company can do to stop the transaction. In fact they have nothing to do with it. Once your lender has completed the loan packet and the appraisal, the approval, title searches and inspections are done. Then it's just a matter of drawing doc's. That is when the escrow company will get a hold of the current lien holder on the house and get the appropriate payoff's.
So agree with what the other person said, that perhaps they are trying to hold out for another offer. However if you have a finalized purchase and sales agreement then they are putting themselves at risk for a law suit particularly if you gave them Ernest money with the P&S. It also sounds to me like you are not working with a Realtor who acts as your buying agent which is a huge mistake. Never ever under any circumstances deal with a selling agent without obtaining the services of a realtor to act as your buyers agent.
The actual foreclosure is not counted as a sale. It only becomes a sale once the lender has successfully sold the property to another owner.
If you are married, the amount you pocketed was under $500,000 and you reinvest it in your primary home within two years, it's no difference at tax time.
If you are single, the cap is $250,000.
Congrats in making money on your house!
The profit from the sale of your home is exempt from any tax if you lived in it for 2 of the 5 years immediately prior to the sale. Up to $250,000 is exempt if your filing status is Single and up to $500,000 is exempt if you are Married Filing Jointly.
You do NOT need to purchase a replacement home to get the exclusion. That's the old "Rollover Replacement Rule" and was a deferral, not an exemption, that was thrown out about 10 years ago.
If you wish to put some of the profit in an IRA you are free to do so if you are otherwise eligible to make an IRA investment, i.e. you have at least that much in taxable income and you have not already contributed the maximum amount for the tax year in question. If the profit is tax exempt, I'd highly recommend a Roth IRA since the gain is tax free upon withdrawal if you wait until age 59 1/2.
You need to contact the State franchise board.
They are not used to be audited, I am not sure how they will react. They already gave out their refunds though, so obviously you have a problem.
The escrow company screwed up too, your expenses were supposed to be handled before you received your money, you should not have had to claim them after the fact.
When you are showing the house anything that is not included in the sale MUST be clearly marked.
We planned to take our children's Swing set with us because it wasn't concreted in and had to leave it, we asked for our Curtians in the kitchen because it matched our entire kitchen set and I didn't know I need to remove them before listing.
But yes, when you put your home on the market, if you want to keep the watersoftner or the Fridge or the Curtians, you must clearly mark it and state that in the paper work that the Fridge, curtains, water softner are not included, then lets say they wanted the water softner, you could negotiate to leave it, as some owners do with pools and pool tables.
To include the purchase in the sale and they pay for it in the purchase price by upping the purchase price.
Another thing is that you can't sell something you are making payments on. For example, we had bought a Furnace and we were not done paying for it, we had to pay it off before we could sell the house.