Sell Your Home Faster

If you’re stuck indoors like the rest of us, you can still prep your home so that it sells quickly once you list it. Here’s how.

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The coronavirus is keeping mostly everyone indoors, but if you still plan on listing your home soon, I have several preparation tips to share that will help it sell quickly down the road. These tips will cost you neither a lot of money nor time. Start by trimming up your landscape. After that, give your door and doorbell a nice maintenance check.

To find out what other tips will help your home sell quickly, watch the video above in its entirety. If you have any questions about this or any other real estate topic, don’t hesitate to reach out to me. I’d love to help you.

How Can You Sell Your Home If You Can’t Afford to Update It?

If you need to sell but can’t afford to make any updates, here are your options.

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If you need to sell your home but it hasn’t been updated in a while, what do you do?

In today’s world, your home either needs to be updated (thank HGTV for that) or priced under market to compensate for its lack of updates.

One option is to offer an allowance. Take your carpet, for example. Before showings, you can place a board of carpet samples in your home along with the quote of how much it would cost to reinstall the new carpet of the buyer’s choosing. Buyers like visual, tangible offerings like that instead of you just telling them about the allowance. If you’re offering to install granite countertops, place a piece of granite out (along with the installation bill). You can also offer a paint job in your contract to be completed after the transaction closes, as long as it's allowed by the lender.

In today’s world, your home either needs to be updated (thank HGTV for that) or priced under market to compensate for its lack of updates.

There is a downside to offering an allowance, though. Many buyers don’t have the vision to follow up on it. They just want to move in and settle down, and if you can’t offer that, they might not be interested.

Another thing to think about is rehab loans. which allow buyers to roll these kinds of updates into them. If they want to change cabinets, add granite countertops, and change the carpet in one bedroom, that can be done as part of their loan. As a seller, you need to let buyers know that even though you can’t afford to make these upgrades, you’ve priced your home so that they can roll them into their loan.

If you’d like to know more about your options as a seller or you’re a buyer and want to know more about rehab loans, don’t hesitate to reach out to me. I’d love to help.