If you’re selling a home in Midland, Texas, your best bet is to work with a real estate agent. And while friends and family will be happy to give you plenty of advice, check out these three home-selling tips you can safely ignore.

3 Home-Selling Tips You Can Safely Ignore

First things first: Every situation is different, and if you want to sell your home, you need to talk to a real estate agent. Your agent can give you advice you can use to sell your home quickly and at the right price.

With that said, these are three home-selling tips you can safely ignore:

  • You should sell in the spring.
  • Open houses are the best ways to find buyers.
  • Price high and wait for a buyer.

Let’s take a closer look at each of these.

Tip to Ignore #1: You should sell in the spring.

Sure, spring is a great time to sell your house. So is summer, and fall, too. Even the winter can be the right time to sell your home – because every home, and every market, is unique. No matter what season it is when you’re ready to sell your home, the right real estate agent will make it happen.

Tip to Ignore #2: Open houses are the best ways to find buyers.

Open houses are great – but there’s a time and place for everything. In some cases, real estate agents won’t even hold an open house for a listing; that’s because they have all kinds of data to pull from, and if open houses don’t work in the neighborhood or if they’re a waste of everyone’s time, they’ll decide against it.

A lot of times open houses only attract people who aren’t in the market to buy. In that case, the owner cleans and stages the house (and leaves for an entire day) for nothing.

Tip to Ignore #3: Price high and wait for a buyer.

Never, ever overprice your home. Your real estate agent can go into more detail, but the bottom line is that if you overprice your home, the people who could ordinarily afford it will never see it. That’s because most people start searching for homes online, and they already know their price ranges.

Another thing: If you overprice your home to market it to buyers in a higher price range, those buyers know they can get more house for their money – they’re not going to buy yours just because it’s expensive for what it is.

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