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I Need to Sell My Home Fast — What Are My Options?

There are many reasons you may want to sell your house quickly. Whether you’re facing foreclosure, getting divorced, are moving for work, or simply need money, selling your home as fast as possible is crucial. But selling quickly can be hard to do. If you need to sell your home fast, here are your options.

Traditional Sale Isn’t the Best Option

It might have been a while since you bought your home, but if you think back to that process, you’ll remember that it wasn’t a quick one. The traditional sales process for homes moves at a glacial pace. First, you need to find a realtor, who lists your home for sale. Then your house could sit on the market for months—even years—before someone is interested enough to make an offer. Plus, once an offer is made on the house that you accept, there’s still a lengthy process of inspections and permits and signing documents before closing.  

 

Additionally, another component of a traditional sale is making the home as appealing to potential buyers as possible so that you can get the best price for it. This can often include making updates and upgrades from minor things like buying new appliances and cosmetic changes like a new coat of paint to more extensive renovations. Those changes take time and money, for little to no guarantee of success in selling the home or fetching a high price.

Sell As-Is

As we mentioned in the last section, sometimes homeowners will make changes and renovations to their homes in order to make them more saleable. But, this takes money and time, and you don’t want to spend either when you’re looking to sell quickly. Selling the home as-is is a way to avoid the delay and hassle of updates and remodeling.

 

This also cuts down on the negotiation side of selling a home, which itself can lengthen the process. If it’s clear that you’re selling the home as-is, you won’t have to bicker with buyers who will only give you your asking price if you replace all the appliances or put in a new water heater.

Sell for Cash

The whole process of getting approved for a mortgage is another lengthy part of the traditional sale cycle that you can and should avoid if you need to sell your house right now, today, ASAP. Selling for cash is the way to do this. No financing approvals that take weeks and months, no hassle in getting your money right away.

Sell to Real Estate Investors

If you sell to real estate investors, instead of a traditional sale to future resident homeowners, you’re going to shave a lot of time off the home sale process. This is in part because investors have the capital and resources to enable the options we mentioned previously: buying for cash and buying as is. Plus, real estate investors and developers also are motivated to speed up the sale process. The sooner the purchase is completed, the sooner they can start making money off the home and property.

 

If you’re moving out of town, facing foreclosure, or simply just need to sell your home quickly, the team at Hometown Development can help. We purchase properties in any condition, for cash, which means we can close in as little as 5 days. For more information, or to start the process of selling your home fast, give us a call at 616-379-3090 or contact us online today

5 Signs You Can Trust A Cash Offer For Your Home

Selling a Michigan house for cash isn’t the traditional or typical route, so naturally, people are concerned about the risks. After all, when you do a traditional home sale, you don’t have to vet the offers—the bank takes care of that for you. If the prospective buyer isn’t credible or has bad credit, the bank will simply deny them financing. But selling your house for cash isn’t an insane risk, it’s often your best option if you want to sell quickly. Here are 5 signs you can trust a company or individual making a cash offer for your home.

1. The cash offer makes sense

Everyone would love to double their money when they sell their house, but that just isn’t the reality most of the time, especially if the market has faced downturns, your home is in disrepair, or you need to sell very quickly. Given the condition and the appraised market value of your home or property, an offer that is in that ballpark is more likely to be legitimate.

2. The real estate investment firm is legitimate

There are a lot of shady real estate investment operations out there, scamming people out of their money. Make sure that the company you’re dealing with has a solid reputation in your community and in the industry. Look into their investors, their past projects, and their online presence and ratings to get a sense for their legitimacy.

3. The investment firm has glowing reviews and testimonials

People aren’t going to write good reviews of a company who nickel-ed-and-dimed them or otherwise took advantage of them in the sale of their house. So, if their reviews are stellar—and not just on their website, but on other platforms like Google, etc.—you can have more confidence that you’ll be well-treated, too. 

4. The real estate investment company is local

A local company is always your best option for selling for cash, as they can provide you with a better and more accurate appraisal of your home’s value, as they can send their personnel out to your home, rather than subcontracting the appraisal to a third party or not performing an in-person appraisal at all.

5. The offer is for the home as-is

If the company purchasing your house is asking you to make a bunch of changes and updates to the home before they come through with the price they offered, that might be a sign to step away. Renovating the home will take time and cost you money, during which time the deal could fall through. Legitimate real estate investors and purchasers will make you an offer for your home based on what it’s worth now, not what it would be worth if you replaced all the appliances and put in new countertops.

Signs You Shouldn’t Trust a Cash Offer

If you receive a cash offer for your house or property, here are a few signs to look out for that indicate that something fishy is going on:

  • The investor doesn’t have a website.
  • It’s difficult to get in touch with your point of contact
  • The offer is extremely high or too good to be true
  • The real estate investor only contacts you via email or digital means, or won’t meet in person 
  • The investor has never appraised or inspected the house

If you’re looking for a cash offer for your home that you can trust, call Hometown Development. We’re a local real estate investment firm with a mission to responsibly buy houses here in West Michigan. For more information about our process, or to get in touch about a cash offer for your home, please give our office a call at 616-379-3090 or leave us a message online, and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible. 

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