What No One Tells You About Selling Your Home

Selling your home should be an exciting, joyful occasion where you show off your home to adoring buyers, showering you with thrilling offers that way exceed what you paid for the home originally.  That's always the dream, but oftentimes selling a home is marked with moments of pain, surprise and even regrets.  We have found some home sellers who were willing to share their cautionary tales and the lessons they learned to help other homeowners avoid the mistakes they made.  Keep reading to learn what no one tells you about selling your home, and click this link to read the full article.

Moving in with Mom and Dad

Last year, Nick Braun sold his Columbus, OH, home ... while his new home was still being renovated. The combination of lousy planning and poor timing meant Braun had to move out of the old house and pay to store his furnishings as he waited for the new house to be ready. "My family and I lived in my parents' house for over three months!" says Braun.Lesson learned: "It’s difficult to plan perfect timing when you're selling and buying and renovating," says Carolina Chia, a Realtor® at New York's TripleMint Real Estate. But you can mitigate this risk by including a contingency in your contract saying that your new digs must be ready before you move out of your old. Or else, arrange to have other interim living arrangements in place. "And there's always the option of leasing back from the buyer until the renovations are finished," says Chia.