Selling YOUR home or property is our top priority ~ and it's EASY!!!

Listing your property is not complicated ~ just give us a call to schedule an appointment.  An agent will be glad to come to your home with a listing contract, take a few  photos, measure the rooms, get your 'autograph' ~ and your home will be up on MLS and ready to show in no time!

THINKING OF GOING FSBO ???  FSBO ("For Sale By Owner")  -  It's a tough row to how. . .but if you live in the Lake Texoma area and insist on giving it a try for awhile to "test the water" call us for one FREE CMA, (Comparative Market Analysis), which will include statistics for the most recent-and-comparable home sales in your area, to help you determine what price-range might be appropriate for your home; of course, when you're ready to "give up" we're sure you will want Dodson & Associates to list ~ and sell ~ your home!!!

Here's what happens next:

AGENT'S TOUR!

* During the first few weeks your home is listed, we'll put it on the Dodson & Associates Realtor's tour of homes.  Instead of limiting this "tour" of your home to just a few "company" agents like many agencies do, we will host a "Local Agents Open House" and make it available to view for ALL area agents.  This will allow local agents the opportunity to become familiar with your home so they can bring their buyers to look at it!

OPEN HOUSES!

* We will coordinate with you and will host OPEN HOUSES FOR THE PUBLIC now and then, throughout the listing period.  These are typically on Sunday afternoons (ie: 1:00-4:00 p.m.)   This is a good time for you to go shopping...take in a Sunday matinee...spend the afternoon with a friend...and let us do the work!

Lake Texoma homes or land are our specialty ~ but we can "SHOW & SELL" any property listed on our local MLS.   If the home you wish to Buy or Sell is located in another state or outside of the tri-county area we serve, we will be happy to refer you to a REALTOR you can trust!

"TALKING HOUSE!"

Drive by & Listen to what "the house" has to say ~ Tune in Your Car Radio!

A unique service we offer FREE for our Listings!  Let us make your house the

"TALK OF THE TOWN"

RECEIVING AN OFFER!  If an interested buyer makes an offer on your home or land, (many times, a buyer will want to 'NEGOTIATE' ), the buyer's agent will contact us....and we will contact you and deliver a copy of their offer.  We will pull the most recent and comparable sales, and give you advice on whether to accept their offer, or make a COUNTER-OFFER.  Once you come to an agreement on price and terms, the contract will be delivered to a local title company, and they will begin a "title search" to verify ownership of the property.

Most buyer's will include an "Option Fee" in their offer, requesting a specified number of days, (ie: 10-15 days, during which time they can complete any INSPECTIONS (structural/mechanical/termite) of the property they might wish to order, using an approved inspector...submit any further negotiations based on the result/s of these inspections, and/or terminate their contract for any reason).  Once the "OPTION PERIOD" ends, the buyer is then under  a "binding contract" to purchase your property, and cannot terminate unless their lender, if applicable, determines not to fund the loan as a result of Appraisal/Inspections/Survey.   If the buyer is planning to take out a loan (rather than pay cash) for the property, the buyer's lender will generally require that an APPRAISAL be done on the property (to assure the lender that the value of the property is equal to - or greater than - the amount of money they are planning to loan on it).  The title company will generally also require that a SURVEY be done on the property.  All of this takes time, (typically 3-5 weeks); once the lender determines that the title/loan value/boundaries are all correct and acceptable, they will notify the title company that the loan can be processed; the title company will then set a CLOSING DATE that fits your schedule - at which time both the buyer & seller go to the title company's office (or to one of their conveniently located branch offices), to sign final papers to transfer ownership of the property.  Typical costs paid by the Seller at closing are: 1) Pro-rated taxes up to the date of closing, and 2) Title Insurance, along with processing fees charged by the title company, and 3) Realtor's commission.  These charges are deducted from the sales price of your property.  The title company takes care of all of the paperwork and files the title transfer with the County Clerk's office...makes arrangement to pay off any existing mortgage you might owe on the property ~ and as soon as the loan is 'funded' (usually on the day of closing...or by the next day), you receive a check for the "Net Proceeds" of the sale of your property ~ it's as EASY as 1...2...3!!!