How can one sell their home faster without lowering the cost of the home?
My husband and I are selling (we are having a brand new home built) and based on a contingency, we must sell this house before moving into the new home. My frustrations are plentiful when it comes to having perspective buyers take a peek at our home. It’s a very open floor plan with two and half story foyer and all the amenities. But it just seems that people are only looking at our home just to get a sneak peak of the inside and are not interested in buying. Maybe I’m wrong but I’m beginning to get a bit antsy with all of this. Can anyone give any suggestions as to how to go about selling your home faster without lowering the price? (BTW, our asking price for the 2442 sq.ft. home in a very nice sub-division in High Point, NC is 200,000).
Everything that you asked is currently being done—from staging the home, to having it viewable on “visualtour” etc. It’s been on the market for nearly three weeks so maybe I’m just a bit too antsy at the moment. We are listed with Keller Williams. They are excellent at what they do so we feel confident in who we have chosen to represent the selling of our home. The other homes for sale are at the same (if not more) asking price.

three weeks into a listing is not a very long time in todays market. Normally the first marketing affords are just starting to take place. It will take a little while until your Agent is able to get everything set up and scheduled. You are saying that you have buyers or potential buyers looking at your house and that you did everything else right. Out of my experience the first “lookers” are neighbors, just checking out the house, what is actually good because if they talk to other people, those people might look for a new home, they can give them all the information and on top of it they can tell them how great the area is. Make sure that there are plenty of fliers at the house they can take with them and show to “everybody” they know.
However, ask you Agent to bring other Agents to your house to let you and herself know what could be changed to make it more attractive for potential buyers.
I was talking to a newer Agent just today. She could not explain that her listing is not getting any public hits on the Web. I checked out the MLS everything was fine. But when i went into other search engines, like yahoo and others, this property did not up at all (using the map search for the area). Knowing the price I was able to locate it. This Agent accidently did not publish the property address in her listing, Understandable none of the mapping searches were able to pick it up.
Sometimes there are just little things that can make a big difference.