| If you have decided to sell your home on your own, | | | | scheme. With you around, they may not be able to |
| you need to remember that you will be performing | | | | thoroughly discuss the pros and cons of the house as |
| various tasks. You will clean up, photograph, and | | | | well as their future plans. |
| advertise the house. Afterwards, you will receive and | | | | When you're showing your house to guests, always |
| screen calls, and schedule viewings; either private | | | | keep a respectable distance. Don't hover around |
| viewing or through open house events. | | | | them; ideally don't follow them inside rooms. |
| Though you may be able to perform all these tasks | | | | The absence of your 'immediate presence' gives |
| single-handedly, and without any hitches, you may | | | | them the freedom to open doors, pull drawers and |
| encounter some difficulty when you are actually | | | | draw shades; and most importantly, talk between |
| showing the house to potential buyers. | | | | themselves if the house is the one they are looking |
| As the owner of the house, there is still a tendency | | | | for. Keep the information you relay to them to the |
| for you to be somewhat "over protective" of / | | | | bare essential and go into detail only if they ask you |
| property. Oftentimes, you would "shadow" the | | | | questions. |
| buyers wherever they go; giving bits of trivia or | | | | You have to strike a balance though. You may go |
| 'defensively' offering explanations to perceived flaws. | | | | into extremes and completely leave them to their |
| Although you only want to help, your buyers may | | | | own devices - thus making them think that you are |
| feel intimidated or uncomfortably with your presence. | | | | not interested in their business. It may be difficult to |
| Buyers, especially couples who come in together, | | | | do, but if you carefully observe how your clients |
| tend to talk about the unit they are viewing between | | | | move and interact, you will be able determine |
| themselves. They will discuss everything from which | | | | whether or not they want your help or would rather |
| room would be used for what to the envisioned color | | | | be left alone. |