subject: Do You Want A High Selling Price Or A Fast Closing When Selling Your House? [print this page] If you are thinking about selling a home fast in the present marketplace you have to set aside some time to think about your real goals, and then make a plan to achieve them. This can be quite a trick when the very thing you're short of is time. But it still needs to happen, meaning you need to carve out a half hour with a pad of paper and a pen, or with your favorite digital device and make a list of your actual priorities. Start with the most basic questions of all, such as which one of these is your highest priority - the highest possible sale price or the fastest possible closing when you sell a home?
Yes, of course all of us generally respond, "BOTH!" but that is often not possible. We will more than likely have to make a choice about whether we're going to hold out for the highest price or pursue the quickest close because our top priority is selling a home fast. If you have a spouse, partner or others involved in the ownership of your home, and you are all coming together to make these big decisions as a group, identifying the real goal of the whole group becomes a crucial first step when you sell a house.
Maybe everyone won't agree on the top priority, but there has to be a group consensus regarding the plan of action. Everyone has to agree on that in order to get on with a sale. It can be very frustrating to your real estate agent as well as all the individual sellers if there is not an agreement up front about the real goal of the home sale.
So, assuming that selling a home fast is your real goal, and that all owners involved understand there may have to be a concession on the selling price in order to achieve that goal, things can move along very quickly from that point. It's a simple matter to pick up the phone and call a few professional buyers, real estate investors who buy and re-sell homes for their living in order to get offers on your home immediately.
Investors are usually quite well-prepared to provide you with a cash closing in a short period of time, even as quickly as a week, and they also take care of all the legal and paper work, saving you the trouble of doing it yourself. You have no obligation to sell to anyone, and collecting offers costs you nothing. It's a good plan when you are getting started selling a home fast.
