Setting the price: Pricing your property properly is a balancing act. You want the highest price possible but don't want your home to sit on the market. We know what properties like yours have sold for recently. We can tell whether your home, with its particular location, features and condition, can fetch more or less than similar listings. We also know whether the market is heating up or cooling down.

Be objective: Selling a well-loved home can be an emotional experience. We can help keep you focused, provide valuable feed-back on changes or repairs you should make to help the home sell, and act as a buffer during negotiations.

Provide marketing muscle: Homes don't sell themselves. We will market your home to the widest audience of potential buyers through our local multiple listing service, REALTOR.com, brochures, ads, our company Web sites, broker networking and open houses.

Qualify buyers: We can help determine whether buyers are serious by getting answers to important questions about buyers' motivation and purchasing power and by ensuring the buyers have pre-qualified for a mortgage.

Negotiate an acceptable contract: We can help you navigate the world of offers, counteroffers, bidding wars and contract deadlines.

Finalize the deal: Selling a house is complicated. It involves disclosure forms, inspection reports, deeds, mortgage documents and insurance policies. We will help you avoid delays and costly mistakes.

Important note: We are REALTORS, members of the National Association of Realtors, and are bound by its strict Code of Ethics.

A good resource for information about the closing process is KnowYourClosing.Com.