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MIchelle Thom: Real Estate Agent and KW Planner with Keller Williams Platinum- MI and Keller Williams Elite- FL

11/09/2026

Ten percent or so of homes sell without an agent, and a fair number of those are family transactions where the buyer was lined up before anything went on the market.

For everybody else the difficulty was never the paperwork, which you can learn in an evening, but the pricing and the negotiating, because you are setting a number without the data in front of you and then arguing about it with somebody who does this for a living.

Ask me for a free copy of my book before you commit either way.

https://michellethom.book.live/biz-card-book

11/07/2026

People assume the best houses all come out in spring.

More houses come out in spring, which is not the same claim.

What sits on the market in November is a mix of homes that arrived last week and homes that have been there since August, and the second group is where the interesting conversations happen, because a seller who has watched two months go by is thinking about things rather differently than they were in week one.

You are also not competing with eleven other offers on a Sunday afternoon.

Nobody is waiving an inspection to win a house in November.
That is worth something on its own.

Request a free copy of my buyer guide if you are shopping this winter.

https://michellethom.book.live/buyer-book

11/06/2026

Your deed, your most recent tax bill, and your mortgage payoff figure are the three things I ask for first.

After that it depends on the house, so permits for the deck if you built one, the warranty on the roof if it is newer than you are, and receipts for anything substantial you have replaced in the last few years.

Disclosures come later and are worth treating seriously rather than as a box to tick, because the ones people are vague about are reliably the ones that resurface two months after closing.

Getting all of it into one folder before you list saves about two weeks of scrambling later on.

Request a free copy of my book and there is a list in there you can work from.

https://michellethom.book.live/biz-card-book

11/05/2026

Do open houses still work?

They do, though not the way they did fifteen years ago, since practically nobody walks into one now without having already gone through every photograph on their phone in the car. What an open house is genuinely good at is putting three or four interested parties in your kitchen at the same time, which changes how all of them behave.

Request a free copy of my book if you want the rest of the marketing picture.

https://michellethom.book.live/biz-card-book

11/02/2026

Conventional wisdom says you should wait until spring to list.

The sellers who ignore that tend to find themselves with a house on the market at the exact moment six of their neighbors have taken theirs off until February, and the buyers still out looking in November are almost never doing it for entertainment.

Ask me for a free copy of my book if you are thinking about listing now.

https://michellethom.book.live/biz-card-book

10/30/2026

The trick-or-treaters have gone home. The oven is still warm.

These caramel apple bars are what I make when I want the house to smell like October without doing any actual work, and they hold up on a plate for two days if they last that long.

Recipe is on the graphic, and my free book is yours if you want one.

https://michellethom.book.live/biz-card-book

10/26/2026

By the second week of December, showing requests in most neighborhoods fall off a cliff.

Which leaves roughly six weeks to get a house listed, seen, and under contract before the calendar makes the decision for you, and six weeks is genuinely enough if you begin now rather than after Thanksgiving.

Ask me for a free copy of my book and we can work out whether it is realistic for your place.

https://michellethom.book.live/biz-card-book

10/24/2026

Your five o'clock showing in October is happening in the dark.

Walk through the house at that hour some evening this week with every lamp you own switched on, and pay attention to which rooms still feel like caves, because those are the ones quietly costing you offers.

My free book covers the rest of the staging, so ask me for a copy.

https://michellethom.book.live/biz-card-book

10/22/2026

Almost every move begins with the same knot, which is whether to sell first or buy first.

Selling first means you walk into the next negotiation knowing your exact number, which is a real advantage, though you may need somewhere to live for a stretch in between.

Buying first means one move rather than two, and a great deal more pressure on the timing of everything.

There are ways to bridge the gap, and which one suits you depends far more on your savings than on your preferences.

I keep free copies of my book on hand for this exact conversation.

https://michellethom.book.live/biz-card-book

10/21/2026

A buyer's agent is, in most transactions, paid out of the seller's side of the deal.

Which means the person reading your contract line by line, telling you which inspection findings are serious and which are just a house being a house, and arguing your corner when the appraisal comes in low, is generally not costing you anything directly.

Free copy of my buyer guide is yours if you want one.

https://michellethom.book.live/buyer-book

Address

31525 23 Mile Road
Chesterfield Township, MI
48047

Telephone

+15864055478

Website

http://www.MichelleThom.com/

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