3 REASONS YOU SHOULD LIST YOUR HOME THIS SPRING

April 18, 2019staceyperry Leave a comment

While it’s true, there’s really no ‘wrong’ time to sell a home, spring is king when it comes to real estate. Here are three reasons why you may want to consider listing your home this spring:

1. School year: For most families, their year revolves around the start and end of the academic year. For families looking to buy a home, they tend to prefer house-hunting during the spring months so they can have time to close and move in the summer and be settled before the start of the next school year.

2. Weather: With the harsh winter conditions gone, spring brings more sunshine, longer days and promotes dreaming of a new home. People are more inspired to go out and look for new homes when the weather is nice. As a plus for sellers, spring is usually when your yard looks its best with thick, green grass and beautiful blooms – so your curb appeal will be at its peak.

3. More buyers: More people looking for homes means you are more likely to have multiple offers and bidding wars. Selling your home for its highest possible price and in the shortest possible time is a major perk of putting your home on the market in the spring.

Ready to take advantage of the hot spring market? Or still on the fence?

Give me a call – I’d love to chat and see if this is the right time for your home!

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List Now Before the Spring Rush

February 28, 2017February 28, 2017staceyperry Leave a comment

Spring is the busiest time for real estate. In a few weeks, the market is going to be flooded with beautiful homes and eager sellers. By listing now, you can beat the majority of the competition and let your home be in a prime position to make a great impression on hopeful buyers.

Here’s a few tips to prepare your home to sell now:

DeClutter: A professionally staged home feels open and light. Make prospective buyers feels so comfortable in your home that they don’t want to leave. You can achieve this by ridding your home of clutter. Go through each room of your house and throw out or store things you do not often use or that makes the space feel small or crammed. A home without clutter feels larger and looks more inviting to buyers – two things every seller wants to achieve.
Make Home Improvements: Paint your front door a new, bright color. Update your light fixtures. Paint the walls of a dingy rooms. Replace your old mailbox and/or mailbox post. Fix a leaky sink….etc. Sometimes it’s the small details that can make a big difference in how your home is perceived by a prospective buyer. Take a walk through the inside and around the outside of your home and make a list of all the little home improvements you feel you can accomplish without breaking the bank.
Price to Sell: You may have an idea of how much you would like to profit from the sale of your home, but you cannot let that determine your home’s listing price. A real estate professional can give you a well-researched price for your home that will make it competitive with similar type properties in the area. Pricing your home correctly the first time will save you lots of time and money. Trust a professional to give your home the best chance to find the perfect buyer quickly.

For all your real estate needs, contact expert DFW realtor, Stacey Perry with Keller Williams Realty, today!

October Home Care Tips

October 10, 2016October 10, 2016staceyperry Leave a comment

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Price Reduction: Gorgeous 3Bed/3Bath Lakefront Home for Sale on Possum Kingdom Lake, TX 76449

September 15, 2016October 13, 2016staceyperry Leave a comment

ADDRESS:
1057 Airport Rd
Graford, TX 76449

NEIGHBORHOOD: North End PK Lake
COUNTY: Palo Pinto

LISTING INFO:

Price: $290,000
Bedrooms: 3
Total Baths: 3
Year Built: 1983
Sq. Feet: 2,678
Lot Size: 0.573 acres
School District: Graford ISD

FEATURES:

Looking for that picture-perfect lakehouse in a fabulous location? Look no further! Here in Graford, TX on the North East side of the gorgeous Possum Kingdom Lake (PK Lake), less than 90 miles west of Fort Worth, is a sprawling ranch style, waterfront property, waiting for the perfect family to make many years of amazing memories!

Sitting on over half an acre of land, nestled into a quiet part of PK Lake, this property conveniently allows you to go straight down into the water from a gently sloping lawn. Originally built in 1983, this home has received some spectacular updates in 2006 and 2016: including fresh paint, a new metal roof and new beautiful flooring.

This single level, 3 bedroom, 3 bathrooms house is very user-friendly for family members and guests of all ages and has a bounty of wonderful features, such as two large living areas, a relaxing sunroom with french doors and sweeping views out onto the lake, and a full-sized laundry room (large enough to handle a long day’s worth of towels and water attire from spending all day on the lake).

This home has quite a bit of versatility. The home has two distinctly different sections with two different entry ways, which lends itself to easily hosting two families for a long weekend at the lake. And with living rooms that can be closed off, a laundry room so large it can be turned into a second kitchen, and more, the options abound as to how you can utilize the great spaces this home has to offer.

On one side of the home, you have the master bedroom, master bath, kitchen, family room and secondary bedroom, with a private bathroom. The master has a priceless view of the sunset from bed. Other master perks include: a huge walk-in closet, an updated carpet, and a stunning master bath with terracotta tile, a pedestal sink, and large walk-in shower with slate tile. The large kitchen has everything you could want – granite counters, stainless steel appliances, breakfast bar, with wood vinyl plank flooring perfect for life on the lake. The family room opens up to the kitchen and features a stunning wall to wall rock fireplace. The secondary bedroom, with its own private bath, has one entire wall covered in chalkboard paint – a perfect room for kids or visiting grandchildren.

On the other side of the home you have the second living area, an over-sized bedroom, spacious storage closet and a full bathroom with great cabinet space. The second living area was used by the seller as a game room and boasts updated carpet and a lovely view of the backyard and lake. The third bedroom is spacious enough to fit two queen beds without compromising any room.

This lake house is perfectly situated for enjoying gorgeous sunsets over the water and holiday fireworks from the comfort of your back porch. And with wonderful, established neighbors, convenient proximity to the DFW metroplex, local airport and Willow Beach Marina, this home checks off all the boxes for achieving the status of ‘perfect location’!

Don’t waste another minute! Contact Stacey Perry today to see this amazing lake house in person!

For all your real estate needs, contact expert DFW realtor, Stacey Perry with Keller Williams Realty, today!

How Solar Energy Can Help You Sell Your Home

September 8, 2016September 25, 2016staceyperry Leave a comment

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Being environmentally friendly is not always kind to your bank account. But did you know, ‘going green’ could potentially help you sell your home for an ever greater profit?!

Here’s how: Solar Energy.

Installing a solar energy system instantly makes your home more desirable to potential buyers. Additionally, if the solar energy system is purchased (and not leased) it increases the value of the home. Once the system has been paid for in full, the home owner has the privilege of enjoying energy at $0 cost.

The prospect of never having to pay for energy again is a pretty enticing selling point. In fact, you even have the potential to make money! Once your home uses the full amount of energy it needs to power your home, you can sell the excess energy back to the grid for public use.

Solar panels are still the most popular and widely-used solar energy system for homes. Typical solar panels can be used much longer after the twenty year lease. And after those twenty years, the panels maintain 90%-97% of their original solar efficiency.

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New solar energy systems are being designed and developed all the time. You can now use solar power to run virtually everything in your home: lighting, appliances, water heating, sound systems, pool systems, etc. This means, when the rest of the city is in the midst of a blackout due to an overload on the public grid, all the comforts and luxury of your solar-powered home will keep working without a hitch.

By installing solar energy at your home, not only will you be doing your part to ‘go green’, but as the homeowner, you will also be increasing your home’s resale value and appeal to potential home buyers.

For all your real estate needs, contact expert DFW realtor, Stacey Perry with Keller Williams Realty, today!

What You Should Update Before Selling Your Home

September 4, 2016September 25, 2016staceyperry Leave a comment

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So, you’ve decided to sell your home. You look around through the eyes of a potential buyer, asking yourself, what do I need to update, fix, change, etc.?
Bathrooms and kitchens are common areas that sellers may choose to spend some money on remodeling so as to appeal to more buyers and ensure a higher selling price. As it turns out, one of the simplest things you can do before selling your home is to update your appliances!

Buyers LOVE knowing they are purchasing a home with brand new appliances. A washer and dryer set older than you can be a deal breaker for some people worried about when the appliances will kick the bucket. A new appliance gives the seller more bargaining power and helps ensure the home will sell closer to listed price.

Not only does the age of the appliance matter, when selling a home, but, the color does, too! Two words: stainless steel. All buyers want stainless steel appliances in today’s market. Stainless steel looks sharp, clean, elegant and expensive. Nothing like a look of luxury, even in a makeshift kitchen, to catch the eye of a potential buyers.

And for the buyers really up on the latest and greatest appliances, energy efficiency is key! Whether the buyer cares deeply about energy consumption or wants to avoid paying for new appliances within a few years of the home purchase, upgrading your home with the best, newest and sleekest stainless steel appliances can go a long way towards guaranteeing you sell your house for even more than you had imagined.

Sometimes it’s in the smaller details, such as updating home appliances, that can make a huge difference in your home being “for sale” or “sold”!

For all your real estate needs, contact expert DFW realtor, Stacey Perry with Keller Williams Realty, today!

Stacey Perry Wins Prestigious Five Star Professional Award

May 14, 2016June 13, 2016staceyperry Leave a comment

For the 5th year in a row, Stacey Perry has been a recipient of the Five Star Professional Award in Real Estate. This award is given to individuals who provide excellent service based on research with peers, firms, consumers and regulatory sources. The Five Star Professional Award is determined by surveying consumers, peers and firms as well as conducting in-depth research. Only real estate professionals with the best reviews and the best quality service receive this very prestigious honor. In fact, less than 7% of all real estate agents in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex win this award.

It is no surprise Stacey Perry has won this award 5 years in a row. From January -April 2016, 60% of all contracts closed have been for previous clients. And all of her listings during that time period were from referrals or previous clients. The best compliment any realtor can receive is to be referred by and called upon again from previous clients. Stacey is more than just a realtor to her clients, she is their trusted confidant, advocate, support team and friend…that also gets the job done!

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If you are looking for a top-notch Five Star Real Estate Agent in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, that will go above and beyond the call of duty to help you buy or sell your home, Stacey Perry is the real estate agent for you!

NOTE: You will find Stacey’s Five Star Professional Award included in the June 2016 issue of Texas Monthly.

For all your real estate needs, contact expert DFW realtor, Stacey Perry with Keller Williams Realty, today!

6 Steps to buying a home

May 13, 2016May 14, 2016staceyperry Leave a comment

6 steps to buying a home

Whether you’re looking to buy a home in the Dallas/Forth Worth Metroplex or Seattle, Washington, the process of buying a home is the same. To be successful in your home buying endeavors, see the 6 steps below:

1. Set a budget. It is crucial to know exactly how much you can afford for a home. Before you do anything else, establish the amount you are able to pay and plant the number firmly in your head. It saves you a tremendous amount of time and heartache to stay within the parameters of your budget when looking for homes.

2. Make a wishlist for the home. Buying a home is a big deal. Make a list of everything you would love to have in a home. Then narrow your list down to everything the house “must have” or you’re not buying.

3. Ask your family to make a wishlist for the home. Consult with your kids about what they would like to allow everyone to be involved in the home-buying process. It may help you to prioritize when having to choose certain home features over another. For example, pool vs. large backyard, large walk-in closets vs. a third bathroom, etc.

4. Create a wishlist for the neighborhood. Perhaps you want to live somewhere with an HOA. Or maybe you want great public schools nearby. Do you want to be able to walk to a grocery store? Do you need easy access to a highway for your daily work commute? These are all important things to consider in a neighborhood that could be where you and your family call home.

5. Find the right real estate agent. Interview agents, ask friends for referrals, look up local realtor information to see who knows the area the best in your desired neighborhood. Choose a person that works well with you and your family.

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6. Get all the paperwork together to apply for a loan. Applying for a loan can be a tedious and sometimes frustrating process. Give yourself ample time to get this completed correctly.

For all your real estate needs, contact expert DFW realtor, Stacey Perry with Keller Williams Realty, today!

How much does it cost to sell a home?

May 11, 2016May 10, 2017staceyperry Leave a comment

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Selling your home is more than just finding a buyer and handing over the keys. The process of closing on a house can be quite tedious, and the actual closing costs may be more than you realize. Below is an estimate of what payments you may encounter when selling a home.
Please note, this is just a list and should not be considered the final and actual amount.

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Commission: Negotiable fee depending on factors such as the agency, location and experience. The seller usually pays the commission for the buyer’s agent and the listing agent.

Appraisal Fees: Typically several hundred dollars. This is a very important step to selling your home, as the appraiser looks at every inch of the property and determines its value in the current market.

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Staging Fees: Anywhere from a couple hundred dollars to a few thousand dollars. In order to make your home look as appealing as possible, your realtor may suggest the house be staged. This can include cleaning, de-cluttering and adding some beautiful decor to highlight everything the home has to offer.

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Closing Costs: Many small fees that usually add up to several thousand dollars. Some of these fees include: title insurance, Escrow fees, recording fees, home warranty plan, re-conveyance fee, tax service, Form 1099, pest inspection, transfer tax.

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For all your real estate needs, contact expert DFW realtor, Stacey Perry with Keller Williams Realty, today!

What is a broker’s tour?

May 9, 2016May 10, 2016staceyperry Leave a comment

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A broker’s tour is a unique way of showing real estate. It usually involves making a group of homes available to be seen by several agents all at once. Many agents like this because they are able to view and learn about properties before showing them to clients. Usually the homes on the tour are new listings or perhaps a home previously listed that has undergone a change.

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Many agents like a broker’s tour because it enables them to familiarize themselves with the market and lets them see the new homes currently up for sale in a direct comparison. It is also a great opportunity for agents to network and share information about the market.

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For a seller, it is a huge plus for your home to be included in a broker’s tour. It allows your home to be in the spotlight in front of the local agents who may have a client looking for exactly what your home has to offer. Having agents know and understand all the features of your home will most likely put your house on the fast track to landing a buyer.

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For all your real estate needs, contact expert DFW realtor, Stacey Perry with Keller Williams Realty, today!