Selling Your House? Avoid These Mistakes
Selling Your House? Avoid These Mistakes Amy Fontinelle August 1, 2018 — 6:57 AM EDT Selling your home—especially if you've never done it before—can be surprisingly time-consuming and emotionally challenging. Strangers will come into your home and poke around in your closets and cabinets. They will criticize a place that has probably become more than just four walls and a roof to you, and then, to top it all off, they will offer you less money than you think your home is worth. With no experience and a complex, emotional transaction on your hands, it's easy for first-time home sellers to make lots of mistakes, but with a little know-how, many of these pitfalls can be avoided altogether. Read on to find out how you can get the highest possible price for your home within a reasonable timeframe—without losing your mind. Mistake No.1: Getting Emotionally Involved Once you decide to sell your home, it can be helpful to start thinking of yourself as a businessperso