Seller guide
From market analysis to close of escrow, Francisco assists you in every step and every aspect of your home sale — with guidance, not guarantees.
The complete seller path
Every step of a sale, from the first conversation to the close of escrow.
Plan the sale
Discuss the property, your priorities, timing, and sale goals.
Review price, listing terms, the listing agreement, and key sale details.
Organize and review the disclosures required for the sale.
Francisco evaluates relevant market information to inform the asking strategy.
Bring it to market
Use the available marketing tools to present and advertise the home.
Address presentation, cleaning, staging, and practical adjustments before launch.
Set appropriate dates and times for open-house activity.
Put the home on the market through the live listing channels.
Offers to close
Compare the price, terms, and conditions with Francisco.
Accept an offer and complete the contract steps.
Begin the neutral escrow process and provide required documents.
Complete the transaction through funding and recording.
Start with the numbers
Francisco prepares a complete market analysis based on data from properties sold in the area with the same features and amenities as yours, plus other considerations — and reviews it with you. You set the asking price with that analysis and his guidance behind it.
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Staging, cleaning, and the necessary adjustments for the best presentation. Light brightness, space, wall colors, and furniture location are small details that make a house more attractive and desirable.
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Set an appointment to complete all disclosure documents and instructions. Francisco provides the required documents and assists with any question you have.
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Set appointments for property inspectors — such as termite inspectors — if you're providing reports to buyers for your protection.
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Your home reaches the market through the MLS and all available marketing sources, with a complete set of marketing tools working for it.
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Open-house days and times and showing procedures planned around your schedule and comfort.
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Offers come back to the table with Francisco — price, terms, contingencies, and timing reviewed together before you respond.
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Francisco reviews every offer with you — price, terms, contingencies, and timing — and helps you prepare to negotiate if necessary. The goal: the least possible time, the least hassle, and the best result the market supports.
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Once an offer is accepted, you open escrow and enter the contingency period. Escrow coordinates deposits, contingencies, funding, and recording. Francisco stays with the transaction through closing — and the escrow guide explains each stage in plain language.
In contract
The purchase contract sets the contingency period, and the California Association of Realtors (CAR) forms it is typically written on are legal, binding documents. Time is of the essence: everything moves on the contract's timeline, and failure to comply with specified times could result in breach of contract.
Buyers are working through their own contingencies at the same time — inspections, appraisal, and loan approval. When every condition of the purchase agreement is met, the lender funds, the deed is recorded, and escrow closes.
Seller responsibilities
A personally guided sale
Francisco's business is built largely through referrals from people who have already bought or sold with him. He takes time to explain the process, reviews the decisions with you, and coordinates with the title, escrow, lending, insurance, and other real estate professionals involved in the sale.
Francisco Chavarria
San Jose real estate broker · California DRE #01436603
In real estate since 2005 · California real estate broker since 2011
Francisco prepares a complete market analysis and reviews the property, comparable activity, timing, and sale strategy with you. You decide the ask with that behind you.
Staging, cleaning, and making the necessary adjustments for the best presentation — Francisco walks the property with you and helps you prioritize.
Francisco reviews offers with you and helps you prepare to negotiate terms if necessary. No outcome is promised; every decision stays yours.
Sellers must satisfy the purchase contract's requirements: deliver disclosures within the specified times, give buyers and their inspectors reasonable access, provide escrow with required documents, and sign final documents. The CAR forms are legal and binding, so dates matter.
When all contingencies are satisfied, buyers sign loan documents and sellers sign closing documents. The lender funds the loan, the deed is recorded at the county recorder's office in the buyer's name, escrow closes, and the buyers receive the keys.
It depends on the market and the property. The aim is the least possible time with the least hassle — grounded in analysis, not guesses.
Before the property goes to market, Francisco sets time to review disclosures, the listing agreement, asking strategy, showing procedures, and other sale details so you know what comes next.
Francisco remains involved from contract through close and coordinates with the escrow, title, lending, insurance, and other professionals whose work affects the transaction.
Call Francisco at 408-509-3280 and talk through your property, your timing, and what a sale needs to accomplish for you.