Selling & Buying

Buying & Selling Your Home is Guaranteed with Kristy Horne

Working with Kristy and the Dwellings team is the smart choice. Our professional standards, knowledge, and ethical practices ensure a smooth process and optimal results in the sale of your home.

Selling Your Home

Maximum Home Value Assessment®

What could your home be worth? Most people don’t know where to start to ensure they get the best return on investment in their home. In order to unlock any potential hidden home equity, your selling experience begins with a thorough pre-sale consultation designed to give you a complete road map to a quick, highly profitable, and stress-free sale. Our highly-trained agents inspect your home top-to-bottom to point out any cosmetic improvements or repairs that will optimize the value in buyer’s eyes (or save you money during the initial inspection process). If it won’t at least double your money, it won’t be suggested. This will help you make the best financial decisions in regards to your home.

Stress free process

It doesn’t have to be hard. We know that selling your property can be stressful and time consuming. Your agent will ensure that your sale process is as seamless as possible. After a thorough Maximum Home Value Assessment, your real estate concierge will be pleased to help coordinate the execution of all tasks to help prepare your property to sell for the most money possible. From contractors and cleaners we will recommend licensed and insured professionals to insure your home shines with some of the best businesses in the area to bring you to decluttering or junk removal, we will help make it all happen, so you don’t have to. Ultimately, a successful sale relies heavily on how your property looks.

Staging is important

Staged Homes Sell For More! To complement our marketing and sale strategy, we pay for the industry’s best staging consultants. They will assist you with what to pre-pack and what to do in order to showcase your home in the best light possible to potential buyers. Depersonalization, decluttering and proper staging will allow potential buyers to better picture themselves living in your home.

Professional photography

First impressions count! An estimated 96% of buyers start their property search online and swipe through thousands of photos to find the ‘one’. Unfortunately, that can also make it harder for buyers to distinguish one listing from another. When you only have a split second to captivate a buyer’s attention and stand out from the rest, the photos have to stop them in their tracks. Professional photography, with a creative eye for every listing, is our standard. Our images are shot with wide-angle lenses, are high resolution and always unfiltered.

Videos & Interactive 3D tours

Our unique, custom property videos and 3D tours have a viral effect. By strategically targeting the potential buyer demographic for your listing, they will typically attract thousands of views. Our videos are professionally filmed and edited, always. By utilizing video and 3D tours we can highlight every aspect of the home and get buyers to spend more time engaging with the home. The more a buyer engages with a home online, the more likely they are to come and see it in person.

Online advertising

Online adverstising provides maximum exposure for the sale of your home. Most agents don’t have a clue about how to market online. We own a social media marketing company that uses sophisticated online marketing and social media tools to target, track and convert buyers. We determine the demographic profile of your potential buyer and run online campaigns that target them. We also hyper-focus our ads (down to age, postal code and interests) to run campaigns that are put in front of prospective buyers multiple times and across partner websites and search engines. The industry’s best systems are used to host campaigns that include: coming soon ads, targeted and segmented email blasts, retargeting campaigns, just listed and open house postings.

Custom designed materials

All print marketing pieces are custom designed, for each individual property. We work with professional graphic designers to create a consistent, polished and modern style for all collateral, including glossy property brochures, flyers, and signage for your lawn, neighborhood, and open houses. We spend the money to do it right so you sell for the most money possible.

Extensive network

Creating a buzz for your home listing is vital for success. For every listing, we are committed to getting the word out about your property sale. In addition to our network, our agents reach out to surrounding owners and residents, introducing them to the listing opportunity and generating greater buyer interest.

Open houses

Getting feet in the door to experience your home first hand may just be the best way to sell your home. Our open houses are well planned and based on your property type and location. We strive to create buzz and strong interest in your property through strategic online marketing. In addition, our agents contact your neighbors and the surrounding area to invite them to the open house and generate potential buyer interest. Our sales and marketing strategy is designed with this end result in mind: to sell your property for the most amount of money, in the least amount of time, with zero hassle or stress. This is all part of making sure you don’t leave a penny on the closing table.

Positive results

We deliver positive results each and every time. Our experience, knowledge, ethical practices, and commitment to our clients ensure great outcomes.

- 50,361,202 Ad views & counting
- 500+ Happy clients
- 90+ Five star reviews on Google and counting
- #1 Boutique real estate brokerage in Metro Detroit

Buying a Home

Where do I start?

There isn’t really a clear place to start. The process can be confusing and stressful at times. The first thing to do is to find a professional real estate agent to help guide you through the process. Keyword, professional. Not all agents are created equal, so it’s important to carefuly select one that is experienced, knowledgeable, and trustworthy. Working with a qualified agent will save you a ton of time, money, and hassle – making the entire process enjoyable and stress-free.

How do I select a good agent?

We recommend interviewing at least three agents prior to starting the home buying process. When interviewing agents, there are FIVE CRITICAL QUESTIONS to ask that will ensure you’re getting the best representation possible. Not asking these questions could cost you time, money, frustration, and even your dream home!

1) What is your availability like?
Houses move quickly nowadays and if you can’t get in fast, it could be gone if your agent has limited availability. Being able to get into a new listing the second it hits the market could be the difference between getting your home or losing it to someone else.

2) If you’re not available to show a property to me, do you have an agent who can?

Great agents are busy and usually working with multiple clients. If they’re already booked and your dream house becomes available, there should be a back up agent that can get you in right away. If not, you could potentially lose out on the opportunity.

3) What is your success rate and strategy for getting offers submitted in multiple offer situations?

Multiple offers are extremely common in today’s market. A great agent will know how to structure a solid offer that will put you at the front of the line for consideration. The highest offer is not necessarily the best one!

4) Will you preview houses for me?
Your time is precious, and it shouldn’t be squandering looking at homes that don’t suit your tastes and needs. Once an agent has a good idea what you’re looking for in a new home, you should be presented with listings that meet your criteria. As a buyer, there is no better feeling than hearing “I’m standing in your new home, how fast can you get here?”

5) Do you work with a preferred lender that you can recommend?
Truly great realtors always have a working relationship with great lenders. A quality lender is the key to a smooth transaction and can also help you be the winning bid in multiple offer situations. Make sure your agent has one, if not several, quality home lenders.