• Counsel you on agency forms, listing forms, disclosures and any local or required inspections.
• Discuss Affordable Commission schedule
• Counsel you on the selling/buying process, purchase agreements, contingency forms, financing, negotiations, appraisals and closing.
• Help you determine the best time to market and the best price for your home.
• Make suggestions on affordable & sensible home improvements.  We offer Handyman Service, and rebates for their work at the time of closing. 
• Gather your suggestions/information for MLS, feature sheets and marketing ideas.
• Discuss open house times, and the best way to show your home.
• Enter a complete MLS write up that is informative to agents and buyers.
• Enter listing and pictures into Personal Touch Realty web site.
• An enhanced listing in Realtor.com with numerous pictures.
• Install a Personal Touch Realty for Sale sign and brochure box.
• Create attractive & informative feature sheets for the home and brochure box.
• Have a Realtor’s Open and contact local realtors by phone and email.
• Advertise and promote through ads, email and open houses for maximum exposure.
• Communicate with you on a weekly basis and be available to you on a daily basis for questions or discussion. 
• Have a 24 hour appointment line every day of the year for agents and assist you in making showings comfortable.
• Return phone calls promptly.
• Have a 24 hour fax for agents and clients.
• Have purchase agreements presented as promptly as possible, and make sure that you are crystal clear on all of the terms, forms and the bottom line. Perhaps most important is to help you attain the most advantageous terms.
• Help you understand inspections.
• Keep you informed of the sale process: inspection, appraisal, the mortgage process, title commitment, the walk through and letting you know what you’ll need at closing.
• Attend and represent you at closing.

Now That Your Home is On the Market, I Need Your Help to Hang that SOLD Sign!

• Turn on soft music at a low volume
• Boil cinnamon tea in an open pot or put a few drops of vanilla extract in a hot oven to create the aroma of baking bread.
• During the winter, light the fireplace.
• During the summer, keep your home cool during showings
• Remove small, fragile objects and valuables
• Keep your pets away from buyers and don't allow children to answer the door.
• Open drapes, turn on the lights, and keep your home as bright and cheery as possible.
• Attempt to keep your home as neat, clean and uncluttered as possible, but live in your home - it need not look like a model home.
• If you find an interested buyer, call me immediately - I'll do everything else!

• Top producing agent since 1985.
• Created Personal Touch Realty, Inc. in 1994.
• Member Mpls. and National Board of Realtors.
• Member of Better Business Bureau.
• 100’s of satisfied clients over the years who would be pleased to endorse me. References supplied upon request.

“An honest effort, a fair commission & excellent communication.”