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Want to Increase Your Equity When Selling Your Home? - Think of Your Home as a Financial Asset

A transition takes place when you begin the process of selling your home. You see your home not as a home, but as a financial asset, and the question becomes how do your get the most equity out of your house?

This one piece of advice will make all your home selling decisions come into sharp perspective. When selling a home, the biggest reason that a home doesn't sell at the best price on the market, or within a reasonable timeframe, or with equitable terms, is because of this one simple decision isn't make by the seller(s).

Your first decision when you decide to sell your Santa Clarita home is to separate yourself from the personal feelings you have about the house. Often when you talk with realtors about buying real estate, we'll refer to your new property as a "home." When you sell a property, we'll often refer to your property as a house. While buying a home is often an emotional decision, selling a house is a financial decision, one for which emotional detachment is needed. Potential home buyer don't care and don't want to know about the memories, or sentimental attachment you have in your home. In fact, the best way to sell your home is to make it seem like you don't live there. More about that in the next section.

When you decide to sell your Santa Clarita home, resolve to yourself that your home no longer belongs to you. When you think of your house as another financial transaction such as a currency trade or a commodity trade, you think more clearly about all the decisions you need to make before you close on escrow. Buyer's on the other hand invest emotion into the purchase of their new home and it is in your best financial interest to do everything possible to allow them to see your house as their new home. The downside to not detaching yourself emotionally from selling your Santa Clarita house is that the process becomes more difficult for you, and at times, unconsciously, you can either drive potential buyers away, reduce to opportunity for all potential buyers to see your house or unintentionally create other situations that take it longer than need be to sell your house.

Posted by Andrea Mackey on December 13, 2008 at 12:00 AM

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Local Information for Astoria, OR

Latitude: 46.188825 -- Longitude: -123.821007

ZIP Codes for Astoria, Oregon	97103
Area Code for Astoria, Oregon	503
Time zone for Astoria, Oregon	PST

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The Lewis and Clark Expedition spent the winter of 1805-1806 at Fort Clatsop, a small log structure south and west of modern day Astoria. The expedition had hoped a ship would come by to take them back east, but instead endured a tortuous winter of rain and cold, then returned east the way they came. Today the fort has been recreated and is now a national monument. Several years later, in 1811, Astor's Pacific Fur Company founded Fort Astoria as its primary fur-trading post in the Northwest, and in fact the first permanent U.S. settlement on the Pacific coast. It was an extremely important post for American exploration of the continent and was influential in helping establish American claims to the land. The fort and fur trade was sold to the British in 1813, and house was restored to the U.S. in 1818, control of the fur trade would remain under the British until American pioneers following the Oregon Trail began filtering into the port town in the mid-1840's. -- Source: Wikipedia.com

Oregon 2000 Census Population Profile Map

	Astoria	Oregon	United States
Population	9,813	3,421,399	281,421,906
Median age	38.3	36.3	35.3
Median age for Male	36.6	35.1	34
Median age for Female	40	37.5	36.5
Households	4,235	1,333,723	105,480,101
Household population	9,590	3,343,908	273,643,273
Average household size	2.26	2.51	2.59
Families	2,467	877,671	71,787,347
Average family size	2.93	3.02	3.14
Housing units	4,858	1,452,709	115,904,641
Occupied units	4,235	1,333,723	105,480,101
Vacant units	623	118,986	10,424,540

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Do This Before Listing Your Home

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Latitude: 46.188825 -- Longitude: -123.821007

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