Buying or selling Sequim real estate or Port Angeles real estate? How you negotiate can mean $10,000 more or less in your pocket when the dust settles. Imagine two card players. One has spent a lifetime learning how to play cards, has become an expert on mathematics and statistical calculations, on human behavior and psychology, and has studied and practiced for decades. The other is a school teacher, a good and honest person, who has taught 3rd grade for 22 years, but has never played cards, and has had no interest in the technical skills required to be a good card player.

Both enter a national card playing tournament. Who would you bet on? Who would win the majority of card games? So why would anyone with virtually no experience negotiating the purchase or sale of expensive houses, gamble when they buy or sell their own house? One might argue, “Well, I’ve sold two houses in my life.” Buying or selling one or two houses does not a lifetime of experience make.

Don’t lose money negotiating your hard earned investment. If I seem passionate about this subject, it is because I am. I’ve seen people lose a lot of money simply because they assumed they could do what it has taken others a lifetime to learn. Assuming is gambling.

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Are homes and land selling in Sequim and Port Angeles? Absolutely. Here is a vignette of this last weekend in my small world.

I sold four properties this past weekend, three of my listings in Port Angeles, and a house in Carlsborg, adjacent to Sequim.

The Port Angeles home is west of Port Angeles a few miles (see photo). The sales price was the full listing price at $425,000. This is a 4 bedroom home on over 2 acres with a 36 x 60 foot shop and covered RV Parking, fruit trees and adjacent to DNR property. [View more photos]

The two lots, consisting of over 5 acres total, sold to one buyer for $329,000. These lots are on treed property that has roads and all utilities installed. This property is also west of Port Angeles, which is becoming more and more attractive to buyers.

The Carlsborg home sold for $210,000 to a young couple intending to live in the home and use it for a permitted business use.

Real estate is selling, and buyers are alive and well in Sequim and Port Angeles. Here’s an insider tip for sellers: your homes and lots are not selling through traditional advertising methods. Buyers are not primarily reading the papers and calling off large public display advertising. They’re not attracted to 30 year old advertising techniques. In fact, they’re turned off by such advertising, which they find a bit offensive. Ah, but that is all I can say here, because my competitors do not need a lesson from me, or should I say, I don’t think I want to give them free training on this blog.

Are you selling a home or land in Sequim or Port Angeles? Call me at (360) 775-5424. I’m very easy to talk to, and there’s no obligation at all. Just answers. Just a friendly and experienced voice of reason at this end of the phone.