When It’s Time to Sell,
Trust the Professionals Who Deliver Results
Because Your Home Deserves More Than Just a Listing—It Deserves Expertise
Your home is more than a property—it’s where memories were made, milestones celebrated, and chapters of life unfolded. It deserves more than just a sign in the yard.
At the Jami Baker Orr Team, we treat every sale—whether it’s a beloved family home, an investment property, or a fresh start—with the care, strategy, and professionalism needed to reflect your goals and your property’s true value.
With expert marketing, skilled negotiation, and personalized service, we’re here to guide you through any transition—upsizing, downsizing, relocating, or re-investing—with confidence and clarity.
Understanding
Your Home
We begin with a comprehensive market analysis to determine the best pricing strategy. By assessing comparable sales and market trends, we position your home competitively to attract serious buyers.
Proven Home
Selling Strategies
Professional photography, online listings, and targeted marketing ensure maximum exposure. We highlight your home’s best features to generate interest and connect with the right buyers.
Sell
Your Home
Once offers come in, we negotiate on your behalf to secure the best deal. We handle all the paperwork and coordinate inspections, appraisals, and closing details to ensure a smooth transaction.
As closing day approaches, we guide you through the final steps, ensuring everything is in place for a successful handover.
Seller FAQs
What is a Listing Agreement?
A Listing Agreement, also known as a seller’s or sales agreement, is a legally binding contract between a seller and a real estate brokerage (or sometimes a specific agent). This agreement grants the brokerage the authority to market and sell the seller’s property, outlining the terms and conditions of the sale.
These agreements are essential for all parties involved in a property sale, as they establish clear roles and responsibilities.They protect both the seller and the brokerage by outlining the terms of their relationship and setting expectations.
Key terms typically covered include: parties involved, property details, listing price, commission structure, duration of agreement, agent’s responsibilities, seller’s obligations, and dispute resolution.
How to Get My House Ready to Sell?
The Jami Baker Orr Team is more than happy to supply our list of Preferred Vendors to help get your property ready to sell
Curb Appeal
When preparing for selling your house in Pueblo, our real estate team recommends starting at the outside of the house and working your way in. Realtors spend the most time with their clients outside while waiting for the door to be unlocked. It is natural for the buyers to look around and check out the home. First impressions are important. We all get those little spiders in and around the doorway, spray down the front walls and entry way. If the front door needs a little painting, touch it up. Trim down overgrown bushes or trees. Remove any weeds, keep any grass mowed down, rake any leaves, and sweep the sidewalks.
“Spring” Clean Your Home
Deep clean your home. Shine appliances, vacuum and shampoo carpets, polish floors, dust lights, fixtures, and ceiling fans. Wipe down the windows and blinds. Keep all surfaces clean during the showing process.
Remove Clutter
Soon you will be moving and while preparing to sell your house in Pueblo, it is a good time to get a head start on packing. Take down any personal items such as pictures because it can become a distraction for the buyer. Depersonalize the home to allow the buyers to picture themselves living there. Remove most items from the countertops. Storage is something every buyer is looking for and can never have enough of it. Tidy up your closet and try to get at least have the stuff put away and organize the rest. Open up space throughout the home by removing any extra furniture.
Get Rid of Odors
Odors are hard to explain and always noticed. Try not to cover up the odor with a lot of fragrance because it makes the buyer feel like you are hiding something. Light fragrance is okay. During the showing process do not cook any fish, eggs, anything that will put off strong smells and sticks around for a few hours. If you have pets, make sure their areas are maintained. Make sure the cat litter is cleaned daily. If you have children making sure their rooms are maintained. If you smoke, please avoid smoking in the home during the showing process, not everyone smokes. If you are preparing to sell your house in Pueblo, ask our real estate firm about our special service regarding smoke and pet odor.
Fix or Repair
Any items in the house that are not in working order need to be repaired. Go through the home and tighten up any loose knobs, change out any burned out light bulbs, light switches, and fix any broken windows.
Light it up
Make your home as bright as possible. Maximize the light in your home. Take down any drapes, change lamp shades. Leave the blinds open during showings to increase natural light. Making your house as bright as possible will make it more sellable.
What is Earnest Money?
Earnest money is a deposit made to the seller that represents the buyer’s good faith to buy a home. The money gives the buyer extra time to get financing and conduct the title search, property appraisal, and inspections before closing.
Earnest protects the seller if the buyer backs out of the contract. The earnest money requested is usually around 1%-3% of the sale price and is held in an escrow account until the deal is complete. If the transaction goes smoothly the earnest money is applied to the buyers down payment for closing costs. If the deal falls due to contingencies or failed home inspection the buyer will get their money back.
When the earnest money goes hard, which is typically between the loan commitment deadline and closing, and is terminated for any reason in that time period, the money would be forfeited to the seller for liquidated damages for having their home off the market.
What is an Inspection?
The next step in the home buying process will be the inspection. The inspection makes sure the house is in good condition and if there are any issues with the home. This includes roof, foundation, plumbing, structural, etc.
Before listing the property, the Sellers Agent will recommend certain repairs that they think will come up in the inspection. These repairs can include new paint, window replacement, furnace/AC maintenance, etc.
The Buyers Agent will schedule the inspection. Once the inspection is complete, the buyer and their agent will meet with the inspector and go over their findings. They will submit an Inspection Objection document, outlining items found in the inspection that they request to be fixed before closing.
The seller typically has a few days to review and will respond with an Inspection Resolution. It is possible to not agree to every item. It is the sellers responsibility to make sure that the agreed upon repairs are completed, however, the Jami Baker Orr team is more than happy to recommend, quote, and schedule our preferred vendors.
What is an Appraisal?
An Appraisal is a professional, written opinion of a property’s value. It helps lenders determine if the requested loan amount matches the property’s value.
It is the responsibility of the buyer’s lender to schedule the appraisal, and the buyer will receive a copy of the Appraisal once it is complete.
If the appraisal does not come back in time or the lender runs into issues, it could delay the closing.
What Happens at Closing?
By this time you have made it through the contract! You got through all the dates and deadlines and now, you are so close to home ownership! It is an exciting day and the keys are almost in your hands!
You should have all your settlement statements sent to you. The buyer will know how much money they need to bring and the seller will know how much money they will receive. The seller is responsible to pay any existing mortgage amount, taxes, and fees.
The home buyer will more than likely do a walk-through of the home either the day before closing or the day of closing. The reason for the walkthrough is to make sure the home is in the same condition as when they saw it last and decided to write the offer.
The home buyer will transfer the money to the title company and the title company distributes the money to the home seller. At the closing table, the home buyer will sign all the loan documents and closing documents. It takes about 30 minutes normally to sign all the documents.
The home buyer/seller are not in the same room at the same time for privacy reasons. The home seller would turn over any keys or garage openers at this time. The home sellers could let the new owners say anything unique about the home they want them to know.
After that, the home sellers would go to the closing table and sign the release to the deed of trust, all the closing documents, and the title company would either wire the money or write a check out to the seller.
