1.  Offer to pay all closing costs.  Ask your Realtor to calculate your Net Sellers Proceeds based on couple of scenarios.  Make them use a high number, like your asking price.  This will tell you what you will make after taxes, brokerage fees, mortgage payoffs, and other closing costs. Have the Realtor give you a worst case scenario, like a low ball acceptance offer, just to see the numbers on paper.  If you are not in pre foreclosure and can cover the expenses for the buyer, this is an excellent tool to attract people who are on the fence.
2. Counter Offers.  If you do recieve a low ball offer and are extremely offended by it, then you are not alone.  Economic experts rely on historical data to calculate how long our makret will slump.  Most say it is a three year cycle.  The most obvious example is the housing slump of 1990, when we saw a very similar scenario to what we are experiencing in todays market.  If you do or have recieved a low ball offer, I suggest you take a deep breathe and think of the lowest price you will take.  Kindly counter offer that amount with a hand written letter telling them about how much you love the home and why, and that you are sad to sell it.  A little sympathy never hurt anyone, and this will personalize your relationship.  They buyers just might sympathize with you, making your counter offer the accepted amount.
3.Participating in Lease to Purchase. I only recommend this to sellers who are desperate.  If you are behind in payments, or know you cannot cary this mortgage, then I suggest you consider this.  Lease to Purchase usually requires the buyers to place a significant binder on the home, when leasing.  This money can be used towards the down payment in the said amount of time the contract states for the lease term.  This really scares me.  If the buyer can only lease at this time, with 30 year fixed rates at its lowest all year (5.75-5.9%), then this leads me to believe that they may never qualify for a loan that meets or acceeds the value of your home.  You might just be waisting your time and energy renting a home to someone that, in the end, is unqualified. Keep in mind that every scenario is different, and yor might be unique enough to make this a good fit.
 4. Dont be stingy with your co-op percentage.  If you only offer 2.5% to the buyers agent on a $300,000 home, and the house across the street from you is the same price at 3%, then guest which one the Realtor is going to push on the buyer? There is such a thing as a starving Realtor and yes, we transaction brokers have to look out for what ourselves as well as our customers. Offering 3% or higher is polite, and speaks volumes to Realtors.

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