261: 16 Tips for Selling Properties Faster and for More Money with Mindy Jensen
Here on the BiggerPockets Podcast, we spend a lot of time talking about buying properties—but what about needing to sell them? How does someone get top dollar and get their home sold quickly? Well, today on the podcast, we’re excited to dive deep into this topic with Mindy Jensen, the Community Manager at BiggerPockets and author of the newest book from BiggerPockets, How to Sell Your Home. You might know some of these tips—but others might just blow your mind (and make you thousands next time you sell a property), so grab a pencil and paper and get ready to take some notes!
In This Episode We Cover:
Mindy’s story
How to pay zero dollars in capital gain taxes
The tax exemptions involved with getting married
What exactly a live-in flip is
16 ways to sell your property:
- Have a pre-listing home inspection
- Clean up your home
- Doesn’t pass the sniff test
- Great Pictures of your house
- Be available
- Be informative
- Know your competition
- Use an agent
- Ask your agent
- Price it right
- List in Peak market time
- Double check your listing information
- Stage those weird areas that don’t have an obvious use
- Leave during your showing
- Be prepared to walk away from an offer
- Tell everyone you know that your house is for sale
Why Mindy wrote the book
Bonuses!
And SO much more!
Links from the Show
- BiggerPockets Forums
- BiggerPockets Money Podcast
- Email Support
- How to Buy Your First (or Next) Property by the End of the Year [The 90-Day Challenge!] (podcast)
- What I learned buying a house (blog)
Books Mentioned in this Show
- How to Sell Your Home by Mindy Jensen
- Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
- Long Distance Investing by David Greene
- Set for Life by Scott Trench
- The Book on Rental Property Investing by Brandon Turner
- The Millionaire Real Estate Investor by Gary Keller
- The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason
Fire Round Questions
- After taking initiative, landing the deal, and successfully completing renovations, how can you be sure your property is going to sell?
- Selling home with no agents
- How do people work on the timing of selling and buying a home?
- Selling challenge
Tweetable Topics:
- “Try not to sell a house with a tenant in it.” (Tweet This!)
- “Home inspection is totally worth the dollars.” (Tweet This!)
Connect with Mindy
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