261: 16 Tips for Selling Properties Faster and for More Money with Mindy Jensen

BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

BiggerPockets

Education, Business, Investing

4.8 • 16.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2018

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Here on the BiggerPockets Podcast, we spend a lot of time talking about buying properties—but what about needing to sell them? How does someone get top dollar and get their home sold quickly? Well, today on the podcast, we’re excited to dive deep into this topic with Mindy Jensen, the Community Manager at BiggerPockets and author of the newest book from BiggerPockets, How to Sell Your Home. You might know some of these tips—but others might just blow your mind (and make you thousands next time you sell a property), so grab a pencil and paper and get ready to take some notes! In This Episode We Cover: Mindy’s story How to pay zero dollars in capital gain taxes The tax exemptions involved with getting married What exactly a live-in flip is 16 ways to sell your property: Have a pre-listing home inspection Clean up your home Doesn’t pass the sniff test Great Pictures of your house Be available Be informative Know your competition Use an agent Ask your agent Price it right List in Peak market time Double check your listing information Stage those weird areas that don’t have an obvious use Leave during your showing Be prepared to walk away from an offer Tell everyone you know that your house is for sale Why Mindy wrote the book Bonuses! And SO much more! Links from the Show BiggerPockets Forums BiggerPockets Money Podcast Email Support How to Buy Your First (or Next) Property by the End of the Year [The 90-Day Challenge!] (podcast) What I learned buying a house (blog) Books Mentioned in this Show How to Sell Your Home by Mindy Jensen Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki Long Distance Investing by David Greene Set for Life by Scott Trench The Book on Rental Property Investing by Brandon Turner The Millionaire Real Estate Investor by Gary Keller The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason Fire Round Questions After taking initiative, landing the deal, and successfully completing renovations, how can you be sure your property is going to sell? Selling home with no agents How do people work on the timing of selling and buying a home? Selling challenge Tweetable Topics: “Try not to sell a house with a tenant in it.” (Tweet This!) “Home inspection is totally worth the dollars.” (Tweet This!) Connect with Mindy Mindy’s BiggerPockets Profile Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Bigger Pockets Podcast Show 261.
0:04.0	There is this tip that I have heard from a lot of different real estate agents about how you want to get as many people as you can through the house.
0:13.0	No, you don't win a prize for having 500 showings and no offers.
0:19.0	You want to get as many targeted people into your house as possible.
0:25.0	You're listening to Bigger Pockets Radio,
0:27.5	simplifying real estate for investors large and small.
0:31.2	If you're here looking to learn about real estate investing without all the
0:34.4	height, you're in the right place. Stay tuned and be sure to join the millions of others who have
0:40.2	benefited from bigger pocketsPockets.com.
0:43.0	Your home for real estate investing online.
0:46.0	What is going on everyone?
0:47.0	This is Brandon Turner, your host today
0:49.1	on the BiggerPockets podcast here
0:50.5	with not just my co-host today Mr Scott Trench but also my guest
0:57.7	slash co-host Mindy Jensen how you guys doing
1:01.6	You're doing great. I am doing wonderful. Okay good good. All right so today's show obviously beginning a little bit different than normal normally we you know we talk bad about the guests ahead of time and then we get them on the call and just
1:12.6	kidding we don't usually talk bad about people but we talk behind their back and
1:15.2	then we bring them into the interview. Today's a little different because our
1:17.9	guest today is also somebody who regularly, is that the word regularly, hosts the Bigger Pockets Podcast as well and that is Mindy Jensen here.
1:28.5	So our guest and our guest host today if you want to call it that is Mindy.
1:32.0	But before we do that, let's talk bad about Mindy
1:33.7	behind her back. Scott, what's up? Hey Brandon, well talking about Mindy behind her back, she actually has
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