It’s Saturday morning, you jump out of bed at 8 AM.  Your real estate agent told you to be  ready and waiting for home buyers to walk through the door, possibly as early as 9 AM.  You attack your daily checklist in order to be prepared:

Make bed, fluff pillows,

dirty dishes in the dishwasher

trash taken out

counters emptied

litter box emptied

kitchen floor swept

carpets vacuumed

Jump under the shower

bathrooms cleaned, mirrors sparkling

damp towels in the washer

Etc, etc.

You gulp your breakfast down and……nothing.  You wait. The phone doesn’t ring.  It’s 10 AM, still no calls.  Noon strikes and you have a quick bite of crackers and cheese.  You don’t bother making a big lunch as you might have to scramble to put everything away if someone calls to see your home.  Two o’clock rolls around.  You start surfing on your TV and watch the  basketball game while on the edge of your seat.  The game is not exciting, but you’re literally on edge, thinking someone could come at any time.  By 5 PM, no one has called or come see your home.

But your home looks great.  It’s perfect and ready to go.  It’s all dressed up for the “party” to meet a “hot” home buyer, but no one came to your party.  It’s like getting ready to meet someone, you look perfect, your hair is great, you’ve got a great outfit on. You’re ready, you go to the party and no one comes to talk to you.  Disappointing, but it does happen.

Selling a home can be stressful, just like trying to meet the “hot” date.  There’s a lot of “prep” work to get your home ready each day for a potential buyer and there’s a lot of work to get ready to meet and greet.   There will be days when the planets are aligned and you have three buyers who come to see your home.   Some of these home buyers will spend more time looking your home over, some will stop by and be out the door in 5 minutes.   Then 5 days could go by when no one comes to visit.

There are parties or events you’ll go to where you might meet several interesting people. Then you could attend 5 parties and no one will be interesting.  Selling a home can have its ups and downs, those schizophrenic moments when you’re so excited about selling your home and other times, when the whole process is very tiring, just like looking for that “hot” date.  But be patient.  The right home buyer will come along, even in this market, if you have your home perfect and ready to sell and priced right.  It just takes more time and patience these days.