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  • Guest Post: 7 Reasons You Should Sell Your House Online

    Guest Post: 7 Reasons You Should Sell Your House Online

    Is it time to move on, move up and move out? Do you need to sell your property in a stress free and easy to manage process that will leave you with more moolah for home improvements? Then you need to sell your house online. Here’s why:

    1.  You Don’t Need To Leave The Sofa. Yes that’s right, you can sell your home without even leaving the sofa. That’s providing you have a laptop or a tablet and the internet at home. The beauty of using an internet estate agent is that they prefer to do business online, so from initial sign up to general communication you can use email, an online account on their website and even Skype for your calls.

    2.  You Don’t Have To Deal With Salesmen And Receptionists In Branch. If you live a quiet life you may well enjoy popping in to town on a rainy day to catch up with your estate agent on the progress of your house sale, waiting around in their shiny office and having to make small talk with the receptionist while the sales men gets off the phone. However, if like most of us you find salesmen trying on your patience, you will be please to know that online agents work differently by giving you a personal account manager at the end of the phone and on email.

    3.  You Can Save A Lot Of Money. By cutting out the high street sales man you will be saving hundreds, probably thousands of pounds in estate agent fees that would normally be wasted on fancy shop fronts, neon lighting and receptionists. Online agents tend to cap their fees or work on a fixed rate for all so there’s no need to worry when you achieve a good sale price that all of your profit will go on commission.

    4.  More Potential Buyers Will See Your Property For Sale. Internet estate agents have some special marketing boosters up their sleeves when it comes to selling your property. Because they are online, they are able to effectively capture massive lists of email address and to send out details of your property to those who may be interested as soon as it goes online. Add to that the ability to feature properties to have them sit at the top of the main pages of websites like RightMove, and you’ll be fighting off the viewing requests with a stick.

    7 Reasons You Should Sell Your House Online

    5.  You’ll See Real Life Feedback. Having a customer account on the online estate agents website lets you see all sorts of reports and information that you may not get from a high street agent. You’ll be able to see statistics on how many people have clicked on your property details, how many people have asked for further information and whether there has been any useful feedback to take on board from previous viewings

    6.  You Can Work Out Of Hours. Because the online agents don’t have a branch, they don’t expect everyone to be able to work within their hours. No storming through rush hour traffic in your lunch break to steal a chat with these guys – you can email them at your leisure and log in to your account whenever you take fancy.

    7.  You Get All The Things You Would With A Non-Online Agent. Even though the cost of selling your house online is much cheaper, this doesn’t mean the service you will receive is not as good. You’ll have everything you need from a floor plan to a for sale sign and even someone to come and show people around and close the deal for you while you’re still sat on that sofa.

  • Russian Roulette Sunday: Celebrity Exclusive

    Russian Roulette Sunday: Celebrity Exclusive

    At 7 Reasons we’ve never brought you exclusive celebrity news before, but now we have some.  A letter has been erroneously delivered to one of us (the York based one) with exciting details about the private life of an icon of both the large and the small screen.

    We don’t know why Bairstow Eves sent this letter to us, as it’s addressed to homeowners in Clifton, York, where neither of the 7 Reasons team live, but we’re jolly glad they did.  Here it is:

    A letter from Bairstow Eves with important news about Mr T.

    Dear Home Owner,
    BUYERS WAITING
    CLIFTON

    We urgently require more properties to sell in Clifton for the following clients who are registered with our office.
    • Mr T is a first time buyer looking for a property with a minimum of two bedrooms.  He will consider any style of house.
    • Mr & Mrs H have their property on the market and are looking to purchase a two bedroom house in Clifton.
    • Mrs H is looking for a semi or detached property with a minimum of four bedrooms.
    I would stress that this is a genuine and urgent enquiry; we only take this time and effort for serious potential purchasers.  Please contact our Sales Team on 01904 622 355 to arrange your free, no obligation Market Appraisal.
    Assuring you of our best attention at all times.
    Yours Faithfully,
    *********************
    Office Manager – Bairstow Eves York.

    That’s right, 7 Reasons readers!  This man.  Mr T is looking to buy a house in York!

    The A-Team's B.A. Baracus (Mr T) winking and pointing
    I pity the fool that sells me a home in the wrong area!

    Now we don’t know why the star of the A-Team and Rocky III is looking to buy a property here.  It seems unlikely that it’s going to be a second home for holidaying as the letter also reveals that (surprisingly) Mr T is a first time buyer.  And it tells us that he will consider any style of house; though presumably he’ll want one with a garage full of odds and ends that he can spontaneously fashion into an armoured car or use to construct an impromptu gun turret.

    The letter goes on to tell us that Mr and Mrs H (we don’t know who these people are, they’re not important celebrities like Mr T) are looking to purchase a two bedroom house in Clifton.  But wait!  Mrs H is also looking to buy a semi or detached property with a minimum of four bedrooms.  We don’t know why.  Perhaps she’s a brazen strumpet who’s looking for somewhere to house her army of lovers?  We just don’t know.   We do feel that Mr H should be worried, but mostly we’re excited about Mr T.*

    Thank you, Bairstow Eves, for bringing this important celebrity news to our attention.  7 Reasons (.org) will return tomorrow with reasons (unless there is any more Mr T news).

    *I have an A-Team duvet cover that needs signing.