The old fashioned way to sell your home is to go through a real estate agent. The agent will appraise your home and then take care of the sale for you. First, your agent places a sign in your yard, then you sit around waiting for someone to buy your house. The problem with this is that a lot of the time it doesn't work - at least not quickly. If you want to sell your house fast, its a good idea to check out some of the companies that simply buy homes outright.
When you do this, you are very proactive. You do a little research online to find a good company fill out a questionnaire about your home. You answer questions related to the kind of home it is, what area it is located in, and the average cost of a home in that area. By doing this, you will have some idea of about how much you can expect to get for your house from a purchasing company. Naturally, this will be less than you would get from a private buyer if you were to sell your house yourself, but it would be a fast sale. Sometimes you can have your home sold within two weeks. Also, remember that when you go through a real estate agent, you have to pay fees. In this way, you do not.
You are sure to have your own reasons for wanting to sell your home fast. For example, perhaps you are involved in a divorce, and neither you nor your partner wants to keep your house. During a divorce, you have enough stresses without having to hassle with having potential buyers walking around in your home. A good, honest company would be glad to buy your home for cash that you and your ex-spouse can just split half-and-half and move on.
Perhaps you have been transferred by your company. You need to sell your house quickly rather than have the sale process drag on for ages. It would be far easier to simply sell your house, pack up and move on to your new position, rather than having to go back and forth to handle a sale long distance. Aside from the inconvenience, you could surely use the profits from selling your house to get established in your new situations. Again, remember that by selling your house outright to a purchasing company, you dont have to pay fees to a real estate agent.
Or, maybe you just need a lump sum of cash quickly. You will have the equity you have built up in your home in your hands within two weeks of the date of sale. When you do this, you could even stay in the house and rent it back from the buyer if you wanted to. Some people do this with a lease-to-buy option.
If you have inherited a house, selling it outright to a purchasing agent is a good way to deal with settling the estate. You can simply turn the property into cash quickly and easily and distribute the proceeds among those who stand to inherit.
By:Oliver Wingrove
