subject: How I Sold My House Quickly In Today's Real Estate Market [print this page] Many of us have been reading how slow the real estate marketplace is, and how few buyers there are. Even though we spend money fixing and repairing our homes so they will show well to prospective buyers, it seems we get no showings, and the houses just sit on the market. And worse, with rates on the rise, more buyers will simply choose to wait. All of us wonder "how do I get my home sold"?
My Agent gave me a few ideas to a new approach this time, and it worked. He suggested being creative in striving to attract the different types of buyers, and filling their needs while they are home-shopping. Many of us know we can pay for the buyers closing costs, which is pretty standard, especially in a slow market; but this time, we took it to a whole new level. We looked at all the possibilites to assist buyers to purchase our home, including offering to pay for:
"Buyer"s Title Insurance Fees
"Title Closing Fees
"First (or two) house payments
"Pay down their interest rate on their load
"Moving costs (with a limit)
"$1000 Home Depot Gift Card
"$500 Gas Card
"Prepaid Landscaping costs for 6 months
After discussing our options, we actually left our list of options to buyers for Buyers to freely choose what options they wanted or needed. Our home sold with the buyer choosing 3 of the options mentioned above. The buyers were excited and our closing actually went without any problems.
