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Most people prefer to sell a home fast and maximize their profits. However, one  of the unfortunate aspects of selling a house is that it takes time and money.

 

Houses can sit on the market for a long time before an offer is forthcoming. Costs of repairs and renovations aren’t cheap. Deals cave because either buyers don’t qualify or an appraisal came in low. Realtor commissions and fees add up. While all this is going on, you don’t have access to the equity that is tied up in your house.

 

But selling a house does not have to take forever nor does it have to involve out-of-pocket expenses and commissions. In this post we’ll talk about ways how  selling your house for cash can help you sell your house fast while avoiding unnecessary fees to keep the profits.

 

A Fast Sale

Cash for home sales can be completed within the time that it typically takes to just list a house with a traditional real estate transaction. A cash deal can be completed in days, not the typical months required with a traditional sale. The faster you get your cash, the better. Why wait forever to sell and cash out?

 

And you don’t have to put up with the hassle of showing your home, leaving every time someone wants to look at your property. No waiting for buyers to qualify for the loan, no back and forth negotiation about the property value. Just a quick, simple offer, a signed contract and you’re done.

 

Keep the Fees and Commissions

Cash deals are free from realtor commissions. The price you are offered is the full price that you get. All the extra dough you shell out for fees stays in your pocket.

 

No Costly Renovations

There is no need to update, repair or renovate to get your house ready to market. Cash deals are frequently “as is” deals, so you don’t have to take the time and money sprucing the place up.

 

Avoid the Bankers

With a cash deal you are not subject to the whims of bankers who decide for you what your house is worth. Cash deals are between you and the individual or organization making the offer. Agree on a price, shake hands, sign the paper and keep the banks out of your business.

 

Don’t Sweat the Appraisal

More deals fall through today as a result of low appraisals than ever before.

Deal killing appraisals aren’t part of a cash house sale. You don’t have to worry about the house not qualifying for its fair value.

 

If you want to sell your house fast, not have to pay commissions or fees and not have to deal with appraisers or bankers, a cash deal can expedite the process, keep the full value of the proceeds in your pocket and let you get on with your life without waiting months to close the deal.

 

Would you like to sell your house fast and keep more profits in your pocket?

 

Do you have a piece of property (house, lot, or land) you’d like to sell fast?  Fill out our Sell Fast Form and get a cash offer within one hour of us viewing the property.

If you’ve sold a house (or houses) before, but always through a realtor, you may find the idea of not working with a realtor to be a bit scary and intimidating. Selling Your Home.

The realtor coached you on preparing the house, handled the marketing, babysat the buyers through showing the house, and dealt with offers and counter-offers.

The realtor handled listing the house on MLS and elsewhere and dealt with other realtors. You may be thinking “Heavens, I can’t do all that!”.

 

There is an easy way to sell without a realtor, one that requires little, if any, expertise, virtually no marketing, and no investment in preparing the house to sell. Working through a realtor involves far more work, time, and money from you than the other alternative I will propose.

 

Realtors are selling to home-buyers who are looking for move-in-ready houses.  That why working with a realtor to sell your home is just that – work!

• Deciding what condition shortfalls you are going to address before the sale.
• Getting the work done – and paying for it.
• Clearing out your clutter and over-supply of furniture.
• Deciding what upgrades to do for marketing – replace carpet? paint? more?
• Staging the house – flowers – color schemes – appealing furniture arrangement.
• Keeping everything perfect for showing, every day – not just cleaning, but orderly closets and cupboards as well. And, corralling the pets!
• Evacuating the house – leaving it neat and tidy behind you – whenever the realtor has a showing. Interruptions in your evenings and weekends when you are relaxing from work.
• Fielding offers – making counter-offers – handling negotiations and decisions.

 

In addition, working with a realtor is an open-ended time commitment – one that often has heavy expenses attached until the final closing.

• Waiting in suspense for an unknown amount of time before the perfect buyer with the perfect offer happens through your door.
• Waiting on buyer financing.
• Keeping up with the mortgage payments and other expenses while you wait.
• Giving up part of the sales price to realtor commissions and closing costs that can total 8% to 14%.

 

There is another way! Choose to work without a realtor and without expensive, time-consuming preparation and marketing.

 

Cash buyers such as PDX Renovations take on houses as-is, without you doing preparation, staging, or marketing. Because they are professional fixers and sellers, they don’t need all the preparation above to attract a traditional home-buyer who just wants to move in and go on with their life. There are no realtor’s commissions, no waiting on buyer financing.

 

PDX Renovations will come to see your property and make our own assessment of the work needed. Often you’ll have an offer within 24 hours or just a few days. You won’t have laid out any of your own cash or time – once you accept the offer, you’ll close within the next few days. You walk away with the cash, and the cash buyer takes on the house in the condition it is today.

 

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Question or Prompt for Response – open-ended, relevant

Have you sold through a realtor?  If you could do it over, would you consider a cash offer instead?

 

Call to Action

Do you have real estate (house, lot, or land) you’d like to sell fast?  Fill out our Sell Fast Form and get a cash offer within one hour of us viewing the property. https://patient-liger-dev.10web.site/sell-house-quick/we-buy-homes-bring-us-a-deal/

As I pointed out in my recent blog post “When is Selling Your Home Without a Realtor Easier in Phoenix?” (or “… Portland?”), working with a realtor is just that – a lot of work! And expense and time on your part, especially compared with accepting an offer from a cash buyer without fixing or preparing the property.

 

What are the costs and risks of selling your house through a realtor? A reputable, professional realtor has their place in the housing market, and many do an excellent job of putting home-buyers in house of their dreams. But if you just want to sell your house as-is, without marketing to buyers expecting a move-in ready house, a realtor has costs and risks that are important to consider.

 

Significant costs include:

• The realtor’s commission is the highest direct cost, customarily 6% off the top of the sales price. Regardless of whether you sell at a profit or a loss, the realtor gets the contractually-agreed 6% of the sale.
• Once you add closing costs of 3% to 8% of the sales price, the total cost with realtor’s commission can be up to 14% of the sales price.
• Marketing to buyers wanting an attractive, move-in ready home without major issues can mean costs in the thousands to prepare the house for sale through a realtor.

 

A major risk to the seller is the unknown amount of time it takes to sell through a realtor.

• Average marketing time is often about 120 days, with another 45-60 days for closing.
• If you have made high-dollar investments in preparation and staging and your house sells in as little as 30-60 days, you are still waiting for 2 months, often much more, until closing.
• The longer the time to close, the more likely market prices and interest rates can change, affecting the entire selling strategy and your final closing proceeds.
• The longer the time to close, the more chance for something to go wrong with the house that is costly to fix, and may affect the sales price or selling strategy. You can fix a water heater and go on as you were, but a major thunderstorm that washes away half the yard is another matter.
• While you are waiting you must continue to make the mortgage payments, as well as meet the other ordinary expenses of upkeep.

 

Time, in short, represents an important risk – a risk markets and interest rates change, demand changes, the house needs a costly repair, and of course continuing to pay interest and principal on your mortgage loan. Added to the costs that are already part of a realtor contract, working with a realtor can be quite costly with no promises for your dreams of “top dollar” on your sale.

 

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Question or Prompt for Response – open ended, relevant

What is your greatest concern if it takes longer than you expected to sell your house?

 

Call to Action

Do you have real estate (house, lot, or land) you’d like to sell fast?  Fill out our Sell Fast Form and get a cash offer within one hour of us viewing the property. https://patient-liger-dev.10web.site/sell-house-quick/we-buy-homes-bring-us-a-deal/