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Three things hold up every sale

Price sets the ceiling. The day a home goes live, every buyer with a matching saved search gets an alert at the price you chose. Price it too high and the right buyers are told it's out of their range. A later reduction only reaches them if it clears their search filter, and by then the listing has some age on it.

Preparation decides what the camera has to work with. It isn't renovation. It's clearing out, fixing what a buyer will notice, and giving every room a clear purpose, because a buyer who can't name a room tends to discount it.

Presentation decides how many people ever see your home, and how it looks everywhere a buyer searches.

Miss one and the other two work harder for less. That's why they come in that order.

Start the conversation early

I recommend talking up to a year or more before you plan to list. Preparation takes time, and some of it depends on the season. If you're listing in the spring, for example, exterior photos can be taken in summer or early fall, when the yard looks its best. The inside doesn't need to be ready yet.

Once the home is ready, staging, photography, and any video usually take about 10 to 14 days. It can be sooner if the plan calls for photos only.

What runs on every listing

These twenty pieces don't change from one listing to the next. A few of them every agent does. The rest are where the thought goes.

Before anything goes live

1. A market analysis built on closed sales. Buyers' agents and appraisers both work from what closed, so the price starts there too.
2. An objective walk-through. We go room by room and write down what a buyer will notice, then sort it into what's worth doing and what isn't.
3. Vetted referrals. Painters, cleaners, stagers, and handymen whose work has held up, plus a running order so nothing gets done twice. We're paid nothing for any name, in either direction.
4. Staging, matched to the home, so every room reads clearly in photos and in person.

What buyers see

5. Professional photography, taken after the preparation is done, never before.
6. A virtual walkthrough and floor plan, so a buyer in another state can understand how the rooms connect.
7. A written description for two readers: the buyer, and the AI tools many buyers now ask before they open a listing site.
8. A dedicated property page, one link with every photo, the walkthrough, and the full description. Inquiries from it come back to us.

Where the listing appears

9. A complete MLS entry, with every field filled in. The portals and AI tools read from it, so blanks cost you.
10. Syndication to listing sites and brokerage sites. This is standard practice and happens automatically.
11. Realtor.com and Zillow, also standard. It's where many buyers first see a home.
12. Homes.com, where buyer inquiries on your listing go to your listing agent, not to whoever bought ad space on the page.

Agent to agent

13. An email to every agent in the association, built around your home.
14. Reverse prospecting. The MLS shows which agents have buyers whose saved searches match your home, and we contact them directly.
15. Phone calls to the short list of agents most likely to have a buyer.

Person to person

16. Your own network. We build that list with you.
17. Social media, shared honestly and reported back to you.

What we watch

18. Showings and feedback. You're notified before every showing, feedback reaches you in the buyer's agent's own words, and we read it for patterns we can act on.
19. A weekly report on online activity, showings, feedback, and how the marketing is performing, unless we agree on a different schedule. Good news or not.
20. A price-position review after the first few weeks, based on what the market actually did. Sometimes that conversation leads to an adjustment. Sometimes it leads to deciding not to sell right now, which is a legitimate answer.

Added when your home calls for it

Some pieces earn their place on one home and not on another. I build the plan after I've walked through your home, and you'll hear my reasoning on each one before you decide. Nothing here is a menu you have to choose from, and leaving one out doesn't leave a gap.

• Video and aerial footage, for acreage, views, or a setting photos can't capture.
• Paid social advertising, to reach buyers who are likely to be looking for a home like yours.
• A yard sign, unless you'd rather the street not know yet.
• Open houses and printed brochures, weighed against having visitors in your home.
• Mail to nearby homeowners.
• Luxury Portfolio International® exposure for qualifying listings (more below).

Luxury Portfolio and our brokerage

Team Hobbs Realty is a member of The Platinum Group, REALTORS®, which is a member of Leading Real Estate Companies of the World®. Luxury Portfolio International® is LeadingRE's luxury marketing division. Qualifying listings are featured on LuxuryPortfolio.com, which draws visitors from more than 200 countries, and are shared with member firms worldwide.

The Platinum Group also has its own marketing division. After a listing is live in the MLS, it's shared across the brokerage, and broker's opens are held by price point so agents with matching buyers see it early.

An example of tailoring

One listing was in a lock-and-leave community, at a higher price point and with a higher HOA fee than many nearby homes. On paper, the HOA looked like a drawback. The marketing turned it around: the dues cover lawn care, snow removal, and exterior upkeep, so the owner never has to think about them. It worked. The buyer was looking for exactly that lifestyle, and the presentation was built to reach them.

What I won't do

I won't take a listing at a price the data doesn't support. It would be a disservice to you. I won't charge you for the things every listing gets automatically, and I won't take a referral fee from anyone I recommend.

Questions sellers ask

• How should I prepare my Colorado Springs home to sell?
• How do I find out what my Colorado Springs home is actually worth?
• How do I price my Colorado Springs home without leaving money on the table?
• How long should I expect my Colorado Springs home to take to sell?
• What does it cost to sell a home in Colorado Springs?

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Talk with me about your home

Every plan starts with a conversation and a walk-through. If you're thinking about selling in the next year or two, it's not too early.

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Weldon Hobbs, Team Hobbs Realty. Members of The Platinum Group, REALTORS®. Equal Housing Opportunity. We market homes by what a buyer is deciding, never by who lives in a neighborhood.