Selling In A Tough Market In any real estate market, whether prices are rising or falling, to get a house sold requires positioning your home to be more appealing to the buyer. There are many factors involved when a potential home buyer is comparing your home to other houses on the market. such as: the location, extra features, condition, curb appeal, taxes, and of course, the price. If there are many homes available for sale in your neighborhood, it means you have lots of competition. In order to beat the competition, your house must have all the above factors considered in your asking price. In order to sell your house, you must price your has not only at the same level as your competition's, but below. If you are not motivated to sell and your house is not priced at or below the market price, it may not even be worth the time to have your house on the market. You must consider whether you want to sell your house or not. If you do not have a reason to move and just putting your house on the market to see if you can get that high price, my opinion is: forget about it. Not only are you wasting your own and the buyer's time, you are actually bringing the market value in your neighborhood down. If you want to sell, price your home below your competition's price. Get knowledge of what has sold in your immediate area within the last few months and find out what other homes comparable to yours are on the market for. It might also be helpful to find out what houses were recently on the market for and did not sell, which means that buyers were not willing to take those homes at the prices offered. By MS Jazzett Website: http://www.betterlifestyles.com