December is a perfectly good month to list and sell your home.  What you’ll have to do, though, is make sure if you have a 10-month inventory of homes you’re competing against that yours will sell within the first month or two.

How do you do that?  1.) Price it below the competition, 2.) Make sure it’s immaculate with fresh paint, clean flooring, and no spider webs, and 3.) Be willing to negotiate in some way.  Maybe you can help with closing costs or provide a home warranty.  Perhaps you’ll drop a couple thousand from your price.  Or be willing to move out quickly or allow the buyer an extra two weeks to close.

If you show you’re negotiable and willing to work with a buyer, there ARE buyers looking right now.  Make it easy for them to find you!  Make it easy for them to work with you!  It’s not just the buyer who must be ready, willing, and able, YOU must be too!