Ep 135 “Should I List My House Between Christmas and New Year’s?!”

Welcome back everyone to “The Really REAL Real Estate Podcast!” Over the last several months, we have recorded several episodes talking about why someone may or may not want to list their home over a given holiday weekend. Today, we keep this theme going by talking about the pros and cons of listing your home during the week between Christmas and New Year’s! TALKING POINTS (3-5): - Introduction - PROS: - Serious buyers only are coming to check out your home! - It’s a holiday week, so there is less competition! - This is especially important for those who don’t celebrate the holidays and are looking for a new home (either people of other faith or people who don’t have friends and family to celebrate the holiday with). - With the craze of the spring/summer markets this past year, there’s a good chance for the “overflow” of buyers who haven’t found anything yet and are still looking. - Many people take off this week from work, so people are available to tour homes. - Many people travel during this week between the holidays, so there is a potential for out-of-town buyers to come look at your home. - CONS: - It’s a big time of the year for people to just take time off from the normal hustle and bustle of life (this means a great deal less buyers looking at your home)! - It’s one of the bigger times where people travel, so just as there may be people from out-of-town visiting and wanting to look at your home, people who live in your community may be out-of-town that weekend! - The weather is most likely not cooperating. - The lending and title worlds are not going to be readily available this week. - You are not closing until end of January/beginning of February at the earliest, so you will still be responsible for the property through a large chunk of the winter season. - You can’t mess with price. - If you take photos the week before Christmas and your house is decorated, you’ll need to pay for new photos after the first of the year when your house isn’t decorated (especially if you have high DOM in your area). - Any fun plans for the holiday weekend?! - Final thoughts HASH TAGS: #Christmas #ChristmasEve #ChristmasDay #NewYearsEve #NewYearsDay #MerryChristmas #HappyNewYear #tistheseason LINKS: JASON: https://jasonwilcox.cbintouch.com/ https://www.zillow.com/profile/jasonwilcox1987/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRksfKiMNteHKYRYrinAug?view_as=subscriber https://www.facebook.com/jason.wilcox.186 https://twitter.com/jason_wilcox1 https://