1. Selling Your Home Mission Statement: This desktop space provides general information on ways to enhance your home for selling purposes.

2. Task Definition: To seek inexpensive effective ways to sell your home. -How are you going to advertise my home? -How can I prepare to show my home? -How much time and money am I willing to invest in fixing up my home? -How do I determine the right sales price for my home? -Do I understand all the aspects of a real estate transaction, appraisal, title insurance, inspections, liens, deeds, easements and home warranties?

3. Information Seeking Strategies -Materials (books, videos, DVDs, manuals, hand- books, etc) -Websites -Banking Professionals -Visual Aids (virtual tours and open house tours) - Family and Friend advice

4. Use of Information -Cost effective ways to fix up your home -Free advice -24/7 access to most information (websites, virtual tours, advice) - Better your chances of selling your home faster and for a greater profit

5. Synthesis -Instructional guidance combined with a seller’s motivation can get a house ready for the market. -Once a to-do list is created and your mission is carried out, fixing up a house can be a rewarding project.

6. - Invite friends and family members to tour your home and look for further improvements. - Answer the questions found on the websites to see if you have dotted all your i’s and crossed all your t’s. - Check your financial situation to see if you should upgrade any major problem areas. - Hire an inspector to determine further needs - Review the simple but meaningful buyer’s needs: cleanliness and curb appeal. Evaluation

7. Use - Apply the useful knowledge found in materials - Practice giving tours of your home with friends and family members -Practice buyer/seller conversations (know the square footage, the year of a new roof, installation of windows, taxes, subdivision guidelines, etc) - Manage information related to your home (selling/buying costs of surrounding homes for sale, mortgage loan rates, blueprints, estimates of monthly bills, etc) - Familiarize yourself with correct terminologies and social demeanors needed when introducing your home.

8. Big 6 Model Desktop Space by Maureen Barton