Tips for Selling Your Home

Top 3 Tips for Selling Your Home in Westfield, New Jersey

If you are selling your home in Westfield, New Jersey, Jackie Safran can help make the process easy, fun, and enjoyable. Use the following tips as a starting point for your home selling experience, and Jackie can assist you with the rest.

Put Away Personal Belongings

When potential buyers are walking through your home, it is important that they begin to visualize their belongings and decorations throughout the house. The visualization attaches them to the home and allows them to feel as if it is already theirs. For this reason, you must act as if you have completed the home selling process and are already set to move. Pack away the items that personalize your space.

Moving Tips

Clean and De-Clutter

Walking into a dirty, cluttered home will turn most people away; if those people are potential buyers, they will most certainly move to the next house on the list. Cleaning your home from top to bottom and making sure it is clutter-free will add to its allure. Home selling does not have to be complicated if the right steps are taken.

Stage Interior and Exterior

Imagine the perfect setting for the inside and outside of your home and create it! When potential buyers can see a well-manicured lawn with outdoor furniture set for Sunday brunch or the dining room prepared for a family dinner, the prospect of making this setting a part of their lives will increase your chances of selling your home.

Contact Our Home Selling Professional

With Jackie, you can count on receiving experienced advice from a skilled real estate professional. She provides you with the tips and tricks you need to make selling your home easy and enjoyable. Contact Jackie—the Agent with the English Accent—today to find out more home selling tips.

Call 732-261-6151 for help selling your home in Westfield, New Jersey!

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After having our home on the market for months, we were very discouraged with the market and were investigating the possibility of renting which was our last option. When we first met, your optimism  was very encouraging, your marketing strategy was on the money and your vision on what work was needed to be done helped get us ready.

When we hit the market again, we received several offers in the first two weeks and the house was sold shortly thereafter.

You seem to have the pulse on today’s market.

Thank you

Ellen & Bob Lee

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One of the best decisions my husband I ever made was hiring Jackie Safran to sell our house.  We found her to be very organized, professional and always prepared.  She truly had our best interests at heart and became a friend as well as our Realtor.  So many times when I was feeling anxious over the whole process, she would listen and encourage me.

Her ideas on staging our house, with the assistance of a professional stager, made us feel comfortable and when it was put on the market, she came up with an asking price that was what we had in mind.  We ended up selling the house for more than the asking price and in less than a week (in 2011).  We were fortunate that she also helped us find a new home.

I would recommend Jackie to anyone looking to sell their house, and I have!!

Valerie & Andre Drabyk

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We employed Jackie to buy our current house and sell our condo.

We were so glad we found Jackie as she was a tremendous help in both finding a house for us as well as selling our old place.

What most impressed us about Jackie was that she was so patient throughout the whole buying process.  She is very knowledgeable about the North Edison area and was patient in showing us house after house, giving us advice on what to look for and what to avoid.  Jackie never pressured us into buying a house and eventually she helped find the perfect house for us.  What was helpful was that she was always available by phone or email if we ever had a question.

She really does go the extra mile as we’ve experienced first hand. Before closing, we found that a gas leak hadn’t been fixed, so she waited with us in the house with no heat for almost 7 hours until the gas company came and fixed the leak.

We were also impressed with her marketing plan for selling our condo. She is very tech savvy, which is important in this day and age, as more and more buyers use the internet to help them buy a house. Our brochures and website came out beautifully. Everyone who saw it was impressed. Most importantly, we were able to get under contract in less than a month in a tough market.

After the long house buying and selling process, it was sad to say goodbye to Jackie, who had became a part of our lives. Our kids still remember and talk fondly about Ms. Jackie to this day.
Jonah and Lisa Lin

 

 

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If you decide you want to see something in Metuchen (or Central NJ), I highly recommend chatting with Jackie Safran about it.   Kathryn and I were very happy with her help in finding our current home in Metuchen in 2003.

She’s realistic and sensible, not pushy at all, but very effective at what she does.

We’ve stayed connected with Jackie over the years and recently she has been very helpful giving us advice about current market conditions and how to get our home ready for re-sale.

Tom Boyd

 

Jackie has helped us purchase two homes over the past six years and neither of those deals were for the faint of heart.

If you’re looking for an honest but tenacious advocate who will take the time to do what’s right we suggest that you immediately program Jackie into your speed dial.

Her innovative use of technology and her negotiation skills will give you a leg up whether you’re purchasing or selling.

We will continue to recommend her to all of our friends.   –The Field Family

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We have known Jackie since February 2005. She was referred to us by our friends who had very high regards for her. She successfully helped us find and close on our first home in North Edison in 2006.

Jackie has a very good understanding of the real estate market in central NJ.

When we started looking, we were looking for a home in the towns of Westfield, Scotch Plains and North Edison,. She is very well versed in these towns and extremely familiar with North Edison – to the extent that she provides feedback about streets and neighborhoods that only locals would know. Her knowledge helped us zero in on the neighborhood of our choice.

She is very well respected by her peers and has a wide network of professionals that she works with. When it was time for closing, Jackie helped us by referring home inspectors, attorneys and mortgage specialists. She provided us with several references for each of them with the pros and cons of working with each of them. While none of these were binding, having the choices definitely helped us. In particular, the home inspector she referred was so good that he was also hired by the sellers of our home.

All through the home buying process, we found Jackie to be very objective of serving our interests.

She is patient and we never felt any pressure to buy or make a decision that we were not comfortable with. In other words, she let us find our home. At all times we found her to be prompt and courteous and willing to go the extra yard to help find us information. (when she didn’t have it).

Kiran and Shobna Banga

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It’s said that selling a house ranks near the top of the list of life’s most stressful experiences. That’s true, but a knowledgeable and capable realtor can make all the difference between smooth sailing and disaster.

Jackie Safran is that Realtor.

It was Jackie’s savvy and experience that guided us successfully through the process. Her advice was right-on – every time. She knew how to price the house to get people interested in looking at it. In a tough market for sellers, we had lots of showings and multiple offers, while other houses in our area just sat without any activity. We even got more for our house than we asked for!

We hear horror stories from our new neighbors in the active-adult community we moved to and think to ourselves, “Jackie warned us about that. Jackie didn’t let that happen to us.”

We can’t say enough good things about Jackie. She knows her business, she works tirelessly on her clients’ behalf and is always there to offer reassurance and advice. I can’t imagine selling (or buying) a house without the assistance of a realtor, and I can’t imagine that realtor being anyone other than Jackie Safran.

Eileen and Joe Kosiner

We wanted to convey our deepest and most sincere gratitude for helping us find our home. You made the entire process so smooth and especially unintimidating for first-timers like us. Without you, we would probably still be house hunting! We appreciate all the time you spent with us, the countless phone calls and your patience – how could we have weathered the oil tank debacle without your calming words!

Thank you very, very much.

Anna Maria Szuruga and Peter Kuruza