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    How to Sell Your Home Faster, for More, and With Less Stress

    Sell Faster. Earn More. Stress Less.

    Choosing the correct real estate agent to sell your home is one of the most important decisions you’ll make. It can be the difference between your home sitting on the market for months or selling quickly, for tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars more. 

    Your home is very personal and can be an emotional and complicated journey to sell it. Numerous questions and concerns will need to be addressed, and the advice and consultation that you receive can make a difference in your results. 

    Discover how we consistently sell houses for an average of 103% of the list price, outperforming the market average of 100%, earning our clients an extra $32,500 on average.

    Preparing Your Home for Maximum Value

    Whether you plan to sell your home as-is, make select updates before listing, or you’re still deciding which approach is right for you, our team will guide you every step of the way.

    We’ll help you compare your options clearly, what to do, what not to do, and how each choice could impact your results, so you can move forward with confidence.

    If renovations or repairs make sense for your goals, we will:

    1. Identify high-impact improvements that deliver the greatest return on investment.

    2. Create a detailed renovation plan with contractor estimates, giving you everything you need to make an informed decision.

    3. Coordinate and manage the work from start to finish so you don’t have to lift a finger.

    Our team oversees every detail of the preparation process, including:

    • Decluttering

    • Moving logistics

    • Contractor or handyman work

    • Cleaning

    • Staging

    • Professional photography

    • Videography

    • Physical and digital marketing

    Global Marketing Exposure

    Our team identifies target buyer profiles and creates tailored marketing strategies to connect with those audiences effectively.

    Professional Photography Matters: Most buyers start their search online, and professional photos are the key to capturing their attention. We offer our clients complimentary professional photography to attract attention, drive interest, and generate offers.

    How We Maximize Your Home’s Exposure:

    •  MLS Exposure: Your home will be featured on the Multiple Listing Service (MLS), giving all realtors access to view and promote it.
    • Online Reach: Featured on 350+ top real estate websites to capture a wide audience.
    • Agent Network: Your listing is sent directly to the top 1,000 agents in our market and over 26,000 agents on the mainland and globally.
    • Print Advertising: Paid Newspaper ads will invite the public to Open House events at your home.
    • Social Media Campaigns: Your property will be showcased across multiple social media platforms to engage potential buyers.
    • Email Marketing: Your listing will be sent to our database of over 13,000 potential buyers.
    • Open Houses: Professionally managed Open House events will create buzz and attract serious buyers.
    • Private Showings: We arrange exclusive private showings to give qualified buyers a personalized experience tailored to their needs.

    Tested and Proven Strategy to Maximize Your Proceeds

    Many agents will list your home, and when the first offer comes in, they’ll suggest you accept it. While it might be a good offer, how do you know if it’s the best one you could get?

    That’s why we’ve developed our proprietary 10-Day Blitz Program—a strategic approach designed to properly test the market and maximize your sale price.

    Here’s how it works:

    • We set an offer due date so we can review all offers at the same time, giving you a clear strategic advantage as a seller.
    • The foundation of this strategy is smart pricing—listing your home at or just below market value to attract the maximum number of buyers.
    • This often leads to multiple offers, creating competitive energy among buyers.
    • As buyers compete, the fear of losing the home to someone else often triggers emotions, leading them to outbid each other. This competitive energy can drive the final sale price significantly above market value.

    This method isn’t about accepting the first offer—it’s about securing the best one. With our proprietary 10-Day Blitz Program, you can sell your home with confidence and clarity, knowing every opportunity was fully explored.

    The Art of Negotiation

    Did you know that 25% of all escrows cancel? This is often due to poor vetting and can be prevented with proper due diligence. These cancellations raise red flags for future buyers, resulting in lower offers, a prolonged selling process, and added stress.

    How you prevent this:

    • We rigorously vet all potential buyers with strategic questions that assess their motivation and commitment to close.
    • We verify with their lender that they’re financially qualified and have the funds to buy the home.

    Our systems are designed to minimize failure. During escrow, buyers typically have seven legal opportunities to cancel a contract, each tied to specific contingencies and timelines. Instead of waiting for these timelines to unfold, we proactively share all relevant details with buyers, ensuring they fully understand and accept them upfront.

    When you work with us, we gather the preliminary title report, survey, SRPDS, association documents, and permits upfront—before your property goes on the market—rather than waiting until escrow.

    This approach:

    Protects Sale Price: By presenting all information upfront, buyers understand that credit requests or price reductions won’t be entertained later in the process.

    ✅ Significantly Lower Risk of Cancellation: Buyers are less likely to back out when they understand and accept the terms upfront. Once a contingency is acknowledged and accepted, they can no longer legally use it to cancel the contract. This also prevents the property from returning to the market, which can scare buyers, leading to lower offers and significantly prolonging the time it takes to sell.

    Peace Of Mind: With proven systems, we make the selling process more predictable and less stressful from start to finish. You can move forward with confidence, knowing that potential issues have been addressed upfront, minimizing risks and unexpected setbacks.

    Minimized Delays: By resolving key details early, we prevent unnecessary delays, protect your timeline, and maintain buyer confidence throughout escrow.

    Fewer Surprises: By tackling contingencies early, we prevent last-minute surprises that can delay closing, lower offers, or even cause deals to fall apart.

    Proactive Protection for Sellers

    Failing to properly disclose property issues is the #1 reason sellers face lawsuits. In Hawaii, sellers are legally required to complete and provide a buyer with a six-page disclosure statement with over 100 detailed questions about their property.

    Most agents will simply hand you the form to fill out on your own, but this document can be overwhelming and confusing to navigate.

    That’s why we go beyond the standard approach:

    – We guide you through every question, so you can be clear on your disclosures. 
    – With proper questions, we help you bring clarity, reducing buyer’s misunderstandings, which could lead to legal risks.
    – We offer strategies to address disclosures thoughtfully, so you can protect yourself without scaring away buyers.

    We’re not attorneys and don’t provide legal advice, however, our experience helps you approach disclosures thoroughly and confidently, reducing the risk of misunderstandings that could derail your sale.

    Your Selling Options

    1. Sell as-is (do nothing)

    Pros: Easy, Fast

    Cons: May not procure the highest price

    1. Renovate/repair

    Pros: Likely to procure a higher price

    Cons: Cost of time and money in repairs and coordination

    1. Renovate/repair with our vendors and coordination

    Pros: efficient, proven track record, ensuring the work will be done as expected, stress-free renovation, a clear scope of work and pricing

    Cons: Cost of repairs, the payment goes to the vendor

    Click here if you would like to see our renovation projects.

    1. Easy button: we’ll give you a cash price and a short close with no contingencies, which will take you to close within 20 days and with no stress.

    Pros: easy, quick, stress-free. “It’s easy”

    Cons: You will net less than if you went on the market

    Pre-market activities

    1. Consultation- create a real estate plan to help you reach your current and future goals. Well, ask a series of questions to help yourself discover the best route for you and your family.

    2. Create a plan to prepare the property to attract the most buyers.

    3. If repair or renovation work is needed, together we will define a scope of work, determine the cost of repairs, and calculate the after-repair value(ARV) so you can decide which investments will bring the greatest return.

    4. Develop a calendar of pre-market activities and coordinate vendors.

    5. Share data and current activity levels in your neighborhood so that you can determine a price that will be attractive to the market.

    6. Provide you with an equity analysis so that you can understand your net proceeds.

    7. Provide you with a capital gains liability assessment.

    8. We will order a preliminary title report and have it available for all buyers, ahead of time.

    9. Will assist you in completing the seller’s disclosure statement and share will all prospective buyers so that they know what their buying and remove the contingency.

    10. If a condo/townhouse we will order the condo documents in advance so that the buyer can not cancel later when they get it.

    11. If Single a family home we will order the survey to bring clarity to any encroachments and if so we will work towards remedying the encroachment issues.

    12. Pull building permits to validate the legality of improvements.

    Marketing your home and procuring an offer

    1. Upload your listing in the Multiple Listing System (MLS) as a (coming soon) for up to 30 days.

    2. We will post your property on over 350 of the most popular real estate search websites and all major local website

    3. Go live on the market- Switch MLS listing from coming soon to active listing

    4. You will be notified via email or phone for each showing, date, and time. Obtain feedback from potential buyers

    5. 10-day blitz (if applicable)

    Calendar of Events

    Helping you decide which buyers to work with

    We will:

    1. Conduct thorough due diligence with the buyer’s agent so that we will uncover the real motivations of the buyer, the relationship between buyer and agent, the buyer’s experience level, and ultimately buyer’s desire to close on this transaction.

    2. Conduct due diligence with the lender so we can understand the buyer’s financial ability to close the transaction.

    3. Present to you all offers with their individual strengths and weaknesses.

    4. Upon review, we will contact the top several offers and determine if the buyers are willing to improve their offers.

    5. Allow you to select which buyer you would like to work with.

    6. Draft counter offer designed to put you in a stronger position and increase the likelihood of closing.

    7. Once the buyer signs a counter offer we will ensure we receive the buyer’s initial deposit and open escrow.

    Escrow process

    1. Well, coordinate home inspection so that you don’t have to.

    2. If credit requests arrive, we will guide you through your options.

    Options

      1. Accept the credit and concession request.

      2. Reject the credit and concession request.

      3. Negotiate the credit and concession requests.

      1. Well, negotiate with the buyer’s agent, in your best interest all buyer’s credit requests as you have agreed.

      2. Once agreed will ensure the buyer delivers his second deposit and moves toward closing.

      3. Will obtain buyer’s acceptance of the following: Title report, seller disclosure statement, condo/association documents, and/or survey.

      4. Coordinate the termite inspection and assist you with any remedy required.

      5. Will attend the final walkthrough to ensure the buyer’s satisfaction that they will be signing closing documents.

      6. Will attend and support you on the day of signing to answer any questions you may have and collect all the keys.

      7. Celebrate your success!