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Chris Haws Real Estate Planner & Listing Expert Keller Williams Fort Worth Listing Agent | Expired Listing Specialist | SRES® Senior Relocation | KW Real Estate Planner. Keller Williams.

Guided by faith & integrity. 817-403-0661 | chrishaws.kw.com

10/06/2026

Free checklist, The 30-Day Relist Checklist: https://forms.gle/8Pez7bDStBAP4KpX7

Here's the problem with the house that didn't sell. The house now has a story, and the story is not the house. Every buyer's agent can see how long it's been listed, and the question in every showing stops being "do we like it?" and becomes "what's wrong with this house?"

A house that's been on the market for months is being judged on a completely different question than the one next door that's been on for three days.

Has anyone told you what your house's story is right now?

10/05/2026

Free checklist, The 30-Day Relist Checklist (the walk-through I do on a house that didn't sell the first time): https://forms.gle/8Pez7bDStBAP4KpX7

Two houses on the same street in Fort Worth. Same age, same size, same school. One sold in a week. The other sat on the market for 120 days and came off without a single offer.

I get called on the second house a lot, and it's almost never the reason the owner thinks. The full video walks through the five things I actually find in homes that didn't sell, which one does the most damage, and the one thing to fix before it goes back on the market.

If your listing is still active with another agent, I won't discuss it until it expires. If it has expired, what did the feedback from showings actually say?

10/02/2026

Free guide, What To Do With Fifty Years of Furniture: https://forms.gle/8Pez7bDStBAP4KpX7

Give every person in the family a date, a walkthrough, and a limit. "Come by Sunday the 14th, take anything you want, and whatever you take has to leave with you that day."

That last part is the big one. Nothing gets tagged for later. And remember your kids may be in the same spot you are: attached to something, and without the place to put it.

Who in your family would be the hardest to hold to the rule?

10/01/2026

Free guide, What To Do With Fifty Years of Furniture: https://forms.gle/8Pez7bDStBAP4KpX7

What estate sale companies tell me sells: tools, costume jewelry, vintage kitchen things (the older and odder the better), mid-century pieces, and anything with a name a collector already knows. Fi****ms sell well, handled through a dealer.

What doesn't, or sells for almost nothing: formal dining sets, china, crystal, silver-plate, upright pianos. I'm not saying that to be unkind. I'm saying it so you don't spend three months trying to get $400 for a hutch that will eventually cost you money to remove.

What's the one thing in your parents' house you assumed was worth something?

09/30/2026

Free guide with the printable four-pile sort sheet you can tape to the garage wall: https://forms.gle/8Pez7bDStBAP4KpX7

Everything in a fifty-year house lands in one of four piles. What someone in the family has asked for by name. What has real market value. What can be donated and will actually be used. What gets hauled.

There is no fifth pile called "someone might want this someday." That pile is where the whole project goes to die. And be honest about the sizes: pile one is a few boxes, pile two is a handful of items, pile three is a truckload, and pile four is bigger than anyone wants it to be.

Which pile is the hardest one in your family?

09/29/2026

Free guide, What To Do With Fifty Years of Furniture: https://forms.gle/8Pez7bDStBAP4KpX7

Nobody wanting your furniture is not a verdict on your furniture, and it's definitely not a verdict on you. Your children live in houses built after 1995. There's no formal dining room, no china cabinet, and they move every seven years on average, and every one of those moves punishes anything heavy.

A solid oak hutch isn't something they can use. It's something they'd have to store. Your kids don't want your things because they don't have the wall to put them on. That's a floor-plan problem, not a family problem, and once you see it that way it stops hurting quite as much.

Has this conversation come up in your family yet?

09/28/2026

Free guide, What To Do With Fifty Years of Furniture, with the printable four-pile sort sheet: https://forms.gle/8Pez7bDStBAP4KpX7

Your children do not want the dining room set. I know how that sounds, and I'm sorry. But you're going to hear it eventually, probably from an estate sale company on the worst possible week, and I'd rather you hear it from someone who is also going to tell you what to do about it.

The full video walks through the four piles everything in a fifty-year house falls into, which pile actually has a market, and the one thing to do before anyone comes to look.

Which piece in your parents' house is the one nobody wants to bring up?

09/25/2026

Question three: who makes this call? If your parent can't make the decision someday, who does, and does that person have legal authority to act?

That question routes to an estate attorney, and it's not one I answer. But it's the question that costs families the most when nobody asked it. Write the answers down on paper. Writing is what makes it real, and a year from now nobody has to reconstruct it or start over.

Nothing here is legal advice. Full video: https://youtu.be/AbyXqMZ8zoM

Does your family know, on paper, who would make the call?

09/24/2026

Here's what changed. The subject stopped being radioactive. Christmas stopped having a fight in it. The phone calls to see how he's doing really are just phone calls to see how he's doing now.

There's a folder in that house with the real number, two floor plans he picked himself, and one page of answers in his own handwriting. If the day comes when the house has to change quickly, that family is starting from a folder instead of starting from an emergency with nothing to go on. That's a whole different world.

Full video, the four steps that built the folder: https://youtu.be/AbyXqMZ8zoM

What would be in your family's folder today, if there were one?

09/23/2026

I want to say this plainly. Not being ready is a completely legitimate position. It is not denial. It is not a problem to be managed. You've lived in the house for sometimes thirty years. You know things about it nobody else knows, and you're the one who lives there.

And to the adult child watching this: nothing in this video requires your parent to move. Every one of the four steps is reversible, private, and useful even if the answer turns out to be that they stay right where they are for another decade. That's not a compromise. It's actually the better plan.

Full video: https://youtu.be/AbyXqMZ8zoM

Has anyone in your family said out loud that staying is a legitimate answer?

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