Guide to selling your home in Dallas-Fort Worth

This guide explains how I handle a sale, in the order things happen, so you know what to expect before each step arrives.

I'm Veronica Yeary, REALTOR® with All City Real Estate DFW. I've been in real estate since 2010 and have worked with more than 450 families across the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

This describes my general process as a REALTOR® in Texas and is not legal, tax, or loan advice. Every home and every family brings its own situation, so we go over the specifics of yours together.

A lot of people know what their home is worth and don't know what they'll walk away with. Those are different things, and the second one is the one that matters.

We work out the full math: estimated price, minus what you owe on the mortgage, minus the costs of the sale. What's left is your number, and that's the one you decide with.

I build the estimated price from real comparable sales in your area, and I explain every adjustment: why that house compares to yours and why another one doesn't. That's in what your home is worth, and it doesn't cost you anything.

Every home I put on the market gets all of the following:

Professional photography. Not phone photos. It's the first thing everyone sees, and it decides whether someone clicks or scrolls past.

A walkthrough video, so people understand how the house connects inside, which a single photo can't explain.

Its own web page, at its own address, dedicated only to your home. It's something I started doing recently, and it works very well for sending by text or putting in an ad.

The MLS. Once your home is in the local MLS, it shows up automatically on Zillow, Realtor.com, Redfin, Homes.com, and hundreds of other brokerages' sites. That isn't a separate service I do: it's what a home listed properly on the MLS does, and that's why it matters that the details go in complete and correct.

Paid ads on Facebook and Instagram, which I aim at the area and at the kind of buyer for your home.

Emails and messages to my own list of buyers, people I'm already working with.

Postcards to the homes around yours, because neighbors are the ones who most often tell people they know who are looking nearby. What I don't do is knock on their doors.

An open house, with the day chosen on purpose, not out of habit.

For some properties we also use aerial drone shots, when the land, the view, or the surroundings really add something. It isn't something I put on every house just because I can.

When an offer comes in, we review all of it and not just the number at the top: who the buyer is, how they're paying, what dates they're proposing, and what conditions they include. A lower offer with solid money is sometimes worth more than a higher one that won't hold up.

I explain the process and the documents you'll sign clearly, and I answer your questions before you sign.

Then comes the buyer's inspection, which almost always produces a list. That's where we go over what's worth addressing, what can be negotiated, and what doesn't need to move, with your numbers in hand.

Until closing I stay on top of the timeline: the title, the appraisal from the buyer's lender, the documents. Most problems in a sale get solved because someone was paying attention, and that's my job.