“How to Sell Your House ‘as is’ for a Fair Price on the Date of Your Choice”

I’m as serious about buying your house as you are about selling it.

That’s the biggest difference between me and listing with a real estate agent. An agent will list your house… hoping it sells within 3 to 6 months. I want to buy your house… now! That’s a huge difference when you’re the one with the house for sale.

An agent lists five, ten, even dozens of houses at a time, and it’s rare if an agent can give all their properties their close personal attention. It’s no wonder that a listed home can sometimes take a long time to sell while you, the owner, are stuck maintaining the property and making house payments month after month.

What’s your alternative? Of course you could just sell it yourself — without an agent. After all, who knows more about the house than you do?

But consider this. How many houses have you bought and sold in your life? Two, maybe three? You haven’t had to solve even a fraction of the typical problems that can pop up — right before closing.

Remember, buying a house is a big decision for most people and it’s easy for them to get “spooked.” At the first sign of a complication or small problem (like a lien, necessary repair, or one of the other typical closing glitches), they can run like a scared jackrabbit.

Plus, when you try to sell it yourself, you still have to put up with dozens of strangers trampling through your home — only now you’ll have to be there yourself. For some owners, that’s a scary thought.

And what if you need to move fast? You could dump the price and hope someone will steal your house, but can you afford to do that? Or, you could go ahead, move out, and leave it with the agent. And every month, while making two huge mortgage payments (most people find that tough to swallow), you hope and pray that someone will buy your old house next month — and the next — and the next. Of course, that’s assuming you can even qualify for a new mortgage with the old one still on your back.

And when it’s sitting vacant, what’s going to stop someone from climbing through the kitchen window and tearing up your property?

Frankly, that’s more worry and aggravation than most people need in a lifetime.

Pretty grim, huh? Which way do you turn? To an agent with dozens of other listings to handle? Selling on your own and sweating out financing details, lost deals, last minute closing “surprises”? Moving out and hoping you don’t get some midnight call with “bad news” about your house?