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• High {2}
• Middle {2}

Elementary Schools

6 Elementary Schools found within 3 miles radius.

School	Type	Grade Level	Enrollment	Students per Teacher
Christa McAuliffe Elementary School Phone: (913) 993-3500 15600 West 83RD St, Shawnee Mission, KS 66219	Public	K-6	476	16
Sunflower Elementary School Phone: (913) 993-5400 8955 Loiret Blvd, Shawnee Mission, KS 66219	Public	K-6	524	15
Midland Adventist Academy Phone: (913) 268-7400 6915 Maurer Rd, Shawnee, KS 66217	Private	K-12	162	12
Maranatha Academy Phone: (913) 631-0637 6826 Lackman Rd, Shawnee, KS 66217	Private	PK, K-12	696	14
Mill Creek Elementary School Phone: (913) 993-3700 13951 West 79TH St, Shawnee Mission, KS 66215	Public	K-6	436	15
Rising Star Elementary School Phone: (913) 993-4500 8600 Candlelight, Shawnee Mission, KS 66215	Public	K-6	405	14

Middle Schools

2 Middle Schools found within 3 miles radius.

School	Type	Grade Level	Enrollment	Students per Teacher
Midland Adventist Academy Phone: (913) 268-7400 6915 Maurer Rd, Shawnee, KS 66217	Private	K-12	162	12
Maranatha Academy Phone: (913) 631-0637 6826 Lackman Rd, Shawnee, KS 66217	Private	PK, K-12	696	14

High Schools

2 High Schools found within 3 miles radius.

School	Type	Grade Level	Enrollment	Students per Teacher
Midland Adventist Academy Phone: (913) 268-7400 6915 Maurer Rd, Shawnee, KS 66217	Private	K-12	162	12
Maranatha Academy Phone: (913) 631-0637 6826 Lackman Rd, Shawnee, KS 66217	Private	PK, K-12	696	14

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Stage Your Home Properly

This is one area where it may make sense to hire professional help. Regardless, do your homework and take the time to find out exactly what can be done to make your property more marketable. For example, be sure to strip away any of that stuff on the walls or being used as decorations that is personal. Also, place something of interest in each room that draws buyers in.

Additionally, people want to be able to picture themselves living in your space and visualizing where their own possessions will go. So you need to clear out space and remove clutter, especially from public areas and closet spaces. In fact, it is said that at least a 1/3 of your own items should be placed somewhere else other then the home you are trying to sell.

Finally, maximize the use of lighting and make sure the house is spotless. Most importantly, this goes for the kitchen and bathroom spaces which tend to endure a lot of wear and tear. Patch any areas that need touch ups with some spackle, paint and caulk.

Cut That Price

If you’re in a situation where you are moving for example, and want to be rid of your property ASAP, then consider starting your listing price at about 10% below its estimated value. It’s better to start a little lower up front if you want to attract the attention of buyers and get quick offers.

This can also work much more effectively then dropping the price incrementally overtime. In fact, the latter can even be harmful, because it may create the perception that nobody wants your property. So make your listing competitive and be ready to entertain some early offers.

Do Your Research

People like things in writing. Therefore, spend a little extra money to get an appraisal and inspection ahead of time, which you can offer at each showing. This will build confidence with your buyers, since you will be providing the hard facts up front and you will show there is nothing to hide.

If you want to go the extra mile, you can even include receipts and/or documentation of repairs done on the home, as well as any new appliances that may have been purchased. Your agent may also want to include information and statistics on the neighborhood as well.

Hire A Real Estate Agent With Proven Results

Did you know that about the top 10% of agents produce 90% of the results? Therefore, why hire a Realtor that can’t follow through on their commitment to sell, especially when time matters most? You need a team to work on your side that knows your market and can command the best price for your home in a short period.

Also, it is vital that your agent has expertise in marketing your home both with traditional methods and using online strategies for maximum exposure. Because information travels so quickly on the internet, it is crucial that you have property tours, videos, listing information, etc. submitted to all the top traffic producing sites. This will attract a high amount of responses and will help the word to travel quickly.

Thus, allow us to prove our ability to help you sell within the next 90 days or less by calling us today. During our private consultation, we will show you quantifiable results along with a comprehensive marketing process that has helped other homeowners just like you get the results they desired. We look forward to earning your business!

Call or Text Nathan at (913)481-5793 for a Property Condition Report or to Schedule a Private Viewing!

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Elementary Schools in KS, 66213, 30

6 Elementary Schools found in the area.

School	Type	Grade Level	Enrollment	Students per Teacher
Bentwood Elementary School Phone: (913) 897-8830 13000 Bond St, Overland Park, KS 66213	Public	PK, K-6	490	19
Pleasant Ridge Elementary School Phone: (913) 897-7595 12235 Rosehill Rd, Overland Park, KS 66213	Public	PK, K-6	466	18
Heartland Elementary School Phone: (913) 239-6300 12775 Goodman St, Overland Park, KS 66213	Public	PK, K-5	431	14
Oak Hill Elementary School Phone: (913) 239-6900 10200 West 124TH St, Overland Park, KS 66213	Public	PK, K-5	473	16
Cottonwood Point Elementary School Phone: (913) 239-6100 10521 West 129TH St, Overland Park, KS 66213	Public	PK, K-5	421	14
Ascension School Phone: (913) 851-2531 9510 W 127TH St Ste 200, Overland Park, KS 66213	Private	K-8	628	17

High Schools in KS, 66213, 30

1 High Schools found in the area.

School	Type	Grade Level	Enrollment	Students per Teacher
Blue Valley Northwest High School Phone: (913) 239-3400 13260 Switzer Rd, Overland Park, KS 66213	Public	9-12	1699	19

Middle Schools in KS, 66213, 30

2 Middle Schools found in the area.

School	Type	Grade Level	Enrollment	Students per Teacher
Oxford Middle School Phone: (913) 239-5500 12500 Switzer Rd, Overland Park, KS 66213	Public	6-8	641	15
Ascension School Phone: (913) 851-2531 9510 W 127TH St Ste 200, Overland Park, KS 66213	Private	K-8	628	17

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Listing Agent: Michelle O’connor, MICHELLE OCONNOR REAL ESTATE, 7960 W 135Th St Suite 202
Overland Park KS 66223 (913) 829-2413

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Shawnee Mission Pub School District Schools

9 Shawnee Mission Pub School District Schools found within 3 miles radius.

School	Type	Grade Level	Enrollment	Students per Teacher
Hocker Grove Middle School Phone: (913) 993-0200 10400 Johnson Dr, Shawnee Mission, KS 66203	Public	7-8	490	15
Merriam Park Elementary School Phone: (913) 993-3600 6100 Mastin, Shawnee Mission, KS 66203	Public	K-6	444	15
Bluejacket-Flint Elementary School Phone: (913) 993-2000 11615 West 49TH Ter, Shawnee Mission, KS 66203	Public	K-6	511	15
Nieman Elementary School Phone: (913) 993-4000 10917 West 67TH St, Shawnee Mission, KS 66203	Public	K-6	557	17
Ray Marsh Elementary School Phone: (913) 993-3400 5642 Rosehill, Shawnee Mission, KS 66216	Public	K-6	516	17
Rhein Benninghoven Elementary School Phone: (913) 993-1900 6720 Caenen, Shawnee Mission, KS 66216	Public	K-6	574	16
Shawnee Mission Northwest High School Phone: (913) 993-7200 12701 West 67TH St, Shawnee Mission, KS 66216	Public	9-12	1848	16
Crestview Elementary School Phone: (913) 993-3000 6101 Craig Rd, Shawnee Mission, KS 66202	Public	K-6	394	15
Shawanoe Elementary School Phone: (913) 993-5100 11230 West 75TH, Shawnee Mission, KS 66214	Public	K-6	316	12

KS Private Schools Schools

2 KS Private Schools Schools found within 3 miles radius.

School	Type	Grade Level	Enrollment	Students per Teacher
St Joseph Elementary School Phone: (913) 631-7730 11505 Johnson Dr, Shawnee, KS 66203	Private	K-8	560	17
Hope Lutheran School Phone: (913) 631-6940 6308 Quivira Rd, Shawnee, KS 66216	Private	K-8	159	15

Turner-Kansas City School District Schools

3 Turner-Kansas City School District Schools found within 3 miles radius.

School	Type	Grade Level	Enrollment	Students per Teacher
Midland Trail Elementary School Phone: (913) 288-3500 3101 South 51ST St, Kansas City, KS 66106	Public	1-6	413	13
Oak Grove Elementary School Phone: (913) 288-3900 5340 Oak Grove Rd, Kansas City, KS 66106	Public	1-6	480	16
Turner High School Phone: (913) 288-3300 2211 South 55TH, Kansas City, KS 66106	Public	9-12	1287	20

If you’ve been thinking about selling a property, or if you’ve been trying to sell a property without success, then you’ll probably want to start taking a more innovative approach to your marketing.

After all, it’s not as easy to sell real estate today as it was a few years ago before the markets crashed.

Here below are some ideas that should help you.

The first thing you’ll want to do is use a service like Realbird.Com to build a nice “Single Property” website for your property.

This will accomplish 2 main things. First, you’ll have an “online base” for your property marketing efforts… a site you can link to in order to drive visitors to get more info about your property; a url you can place on the other traffic source you’re about to read about below.

Second, you’ll be able to take advantage of the “syndication” that a service like this offers. Once you post your property to realbird, it’ll also be sent to syndication portals such as Zillow, Trulia, Yahoo, and more than 20 others.

Almost instantly, your property will have the chance to be seen by millions of home buyers searching online.

Excellent! (it’s really funny how many real estate professionals, still… to this day don’t bother to take this quick and easy step of creating a single property page that syndicates itself all over the place online!)

Of course you know about Craigslist as a way to advertise your property. But here are some tips you can use to make sure your property stands out from the crowd of all the others that you’ll be competing with on craigslist.

Make sure your headline sticks out.

Take a feature of your property and turn it into an interesting phrase. example — “PARTY TIME front Porch” or “Bling Bling Bling Blanger — Finished Basement!” you know, have fun. Otherwise your property will get lost in a sea of others.

Use pictures!

Lots of people browsing craigslist will just ignore your posting if you don’t include at least one picture.

If you have a video of the property be sure to include a picture of your video in the Craigslist ad.

You can’t embed the video, but you can certainly link to the picture and take folks back to your single property page, where you’ll have a more captive audience….

Similar to craigslist, Backpage is an online classified listing site.

Even though it gets less traffic than Craigslist, Backpage still has a good number of people searching the real estate section, and there’s a major upside to using backpage.

You can post your ad once, and pay just a few bucks for automatic reposting! (A very convenient timesaver that Craigslist just doesn’t offer!)

Do you ever see those ads on the right side of your Facebook profile?

Well, they’re very powerful, and anybody can set one up in just a few minutes.

Here are the major upsides to using a Facebook ad to get eyeballs on your property.

• Instant gratification — because Facebook is so universal and so many people use it, your ads will be seen by 1000’s of potential buyers almost instantly!
• Targeting — you can choose to show your ads to demographics most likely to purchase your property. For example, if your property is in an over 55 community, you can show your ad only to seniors. Or, if it’s near a college. You could show the property only to college age students with an ad like “tell mom and dad to buy this and save money on dorms.”

You get the point – Facebook ads are a quick, powerful way to help you with your homesale. (and one that for some strange reason, most real estate pros haven’t committed to yet!)

Have you ever searched for anything online using Google, Bing, or Yahoo?

Well bazillions do every day, including perhaps the next buyer for your house.

Go ahead.

Go to Google.Com now and search for “homes for sale” in your area.

Do you notice how the top 2 or 3 spots and all the spots on the right side are all offering property searches. These are paid ads, and your property can quickly and easily be featured here, so people searching google for a property in your area can find yours!

TIP –> advertising your specific property address, instead of just some generic list of properties will certainly stick out from among all those other ads that are offering a very general property search!)

And again, this one’s a lot like Facebook. Super powerful, but for some weird reason so called “real estate professionals” by and large haven’t committed to featuring their properties in paid search engine results yet.

Extra Extra! — Lets Talk About The Newspaper!

Ok, so maybe it’s a little obvious to you that the newspaper would be a way to get eyeballs on your property.

But do you know that if you’re thinking about running an ad for your property in the newspaper, you are probably going to waste a lot of money doing it!

Yep, while most real estate professionals are still just posting a picture and a short description of the property in the newspaper, even very few pros are aware of this next “enhanced response” technique for getting eyeballs on your property.

Instead of just posting the property address and a picture in the newspaper try this: Post the property address, the picture, and a TEXT BASED CALL TO ACTION that allows the visitor to see more pictures and/or a video of the property.

This technique will allow you to get much more “bang for your buck” when it comes to your newspaper advertising.

First, your ad will stick out, because it’ll offer just a little more than the other ads do.

2nd, you’ll be able to showcase a lot more about your property as visitors access what’s on the other side of the text code.

3rd… You’ll get real live contact info (a phone number) for someone who’s interested in buying your house!

(Don’t worry — if you’re not sure about the “techy stuff” behind this last idea, we can help. We actually provide all our clients with such a service.)

There are loads of other ways to get eyeballs on your property, but really what you will need is to create a unique marketing plan that will utilize strategies that are best for your property and your marketplace.

We can help!

Feel FREE To Get In Touch If You’d Like to Talk More about the steps we might take to help you get your property sold…

There’s a lot of real estate on the market.

And in a lot of cases, for any number of reasons, some sellers are very “motivated” to sell.

What does this mean for you?

Well, if your offer to buy comes in at the right time, you might find a seller who’s willing to let a property go for well under market value… which could set you up with some instant equity and a solid chance at making a profit when you eventually sell.

How Can You Find Such Properties?

They’re out there. One technique we like to use is to scan the local multiple listing service for certain “keywords” that signal motivation.

Another thing to watch is the list of properties with price reductions on a day to day basis.

Setting up a “motivated seller” search alert like this isn’t too hard — we’d be happy to set you up if you like. Just click here to let us know if you’re interested…

However, embracing change is not always easy to do, and many real estate professionals are still relying on traditional marketing methods even though the future of real estate is online. Therefore, by listing with us you can rest assured that we will make video marketing a priority to ensure you gain top exposure and receive the fastest and best offers possible on your home.

Step 1: Creating Video Content

The first step in preparing video content for your listing will be to create a virtual tour of your entire property. We will be sure to highlight all the perks and benefits of your home and the surrounding neighborhood as well.

Additionally, we can include information about your school district(s), local businesses, as well as other recreational activities. Feel free to share any other ideas you may like to include as a part of the marketing strategy, and we will be happy to accommodate where we can.

Step 2: Optimizing Your Content

As experts of video syndication and online marketing tactics, we have access to various tools and strategies that will ensure you are receiving maximum exposure for your listing. Some of these techniques include:

• Uploading to Youtube and other video marketing directories
• Including videos within written article content and submitting to various platforms
• Creating a property specific landing page and/or mobile website with your virtual home tour
• Feeding listing data to social media pages, the MLS and other property marketing sites

We have found that videos tend to really engage prospects more and really help them to get a better feel for the home and neighborhood before even scheduling a showing. Plus, you are more likely to attract qualified buyers following this plan as well.

Step 3: Call to Action

Finally, we also ensure that there is always a unique call to action within every one of our videos, in order to capture important contact information for future follow up. This is an area that many agents can neglect, which can drastically impact your chances for success.

Therefore, we make it a point to always direct each prospect to some form of lead capture, so that we are able to build a relationship and ensure that we never miss a possible opportunity. In other words, people are much more likely to share their information than take the time to call.

Can you now see the power behind using video marketing for your property listing? Since creating video is so simple and can greatly enhance your chances for selling, we encourage you to contact us when ready to list your home in order to learn more about our comprehensive online marketing strategies.

However, if you are considering a foreclosure property for your next purchase, then there are some common pitfalls that you will need to avoid along the way to protect yourself and your future asset. Let’s review some areas to be aware of before making any serious offers.

1. Avoid Making Emotional Offers:

When you are planning on putting a bid down on a property, you need to be extremely confident with the home’s current condition, its true market value, and what will be needed to fully restore the property.

Too many buyers will think that they found a slamming deal and fear that they will lose the home to another bidder. So instead of taking the time to truly do their homework and complete the proper inspections and analysis, they can end up locking up a property for more than it’s actually worth.

2. Estimate Neighborhood Values:

Consider what other comparable properties are selling for and talk to a real estate agent who has a working knowledge of the area. In fact, it’s a wise decision to thoroughly review these questions and any other recommendations your Realtor may make:

• Is this neighborhood a desirable location and how are crime rates?
• What schools would be available for my kids or future buyers?
• Were there any other foreclosures or investor sales that could negatively affect the future value of my home?
• How long do I plan on living there and how could that affect things?
• What type of appreciation should I expect?

3. Get Preapproved:

Before you even start looking at homes, you must get preapproved on a mortgage in order to know exactly what you can afford. Sadly, many buyers can miss out on some phenomenal deals or spend hours of wasted time because they avoid this step. Show banks that you are a serious buyer and have your financing in place!

4. Get Professional Help:

Not only should you seek the expertise and of an experienced Realtor, but you may also need guidance from a real estate attorney or financial consultant as well. Each professional can ensure that you are making the right choices throughout the process and can protect you from any issues you may come across along the way.

Remember that there is a lot more than meets the eye when you are trying to buy a foreclosure property. Negotiating with the banks, filling out paperwork properly, and undergoing all the necessary inspections can be a very detailed and tedious procedure.

Therefore, we encourage you to give us a call today to get started. Our agents have years of experience assisting other clients with buying foreclosures for their next home or investment property. Discover how we can help you to make a smart and profitable investment as well!