Selling your home in Farrar Estates

I'm Shelby Cotton, a REALTOR® with eXp Realty, LLC in Lubbock. My background in architecture, civil design and subdivision planning helps me present Farrar Estates homes the way buyers should see them. For an updated home, that means showing the quality of the work. For an original home, it means helping buyers see what the space could become.

My listing plans typically include professional photography, with video and drone shots where they help. In Farrar Estates, drone shots are especially useful for showing lot size and mature trees, which ground photos tend to flatten. The plan also typically includes a property website, paid social media ads, email to other agents, mailers to neighbors and open houses.

You'll get clear feedback once showings start and a side-by-side look at what each offer would put in your pocket.

If your home is updated, the goal is to make the work visible and credible. Photograph it well, and have the details ready: what was done, when and by whom. Buyers pay for renovation they can trust, and records turn a claim into a fact.

If your home is largely original, resist the urge to remodel before selling. A buyer shopping for potential wants to choose their own kitchen. Put your money into what an inspector will raise anyway, such as leaks, drainage and worn systems, and into presentation: clean, bright rooms that show their size.

If your home is in between, price it for what it is. A kitchen updated a decade ago with original bathrooms is its own category, and it should be compared with homes like it rather than with the neighborhood's best or worst.

Pricing in Farrar Estates starts with sorting. Recent sales in the neighborhood include homes that were fully updated and homes that sold largely original, and averaging them produces a number that fits neither. I'll separate them and compare your home with the ones it truly resembles in size, lot and level of updating.

From there, the adjustments come from the details buyers notice. The quality and age of any renovation. The condition of the roof and systems. The size and shape of the lot, and how the mature landscaping has been kept. Where the home sits relative to the parks and the busier streets.

We'll also agree before you list on what we'll do if the market reads the home differently than we expect. With that plan in place, any change is a decision you've already made calmly, not a reaction to a slow week.