Selling your home can be a drawn-out process. But if you’re in a hurry, you need to know how to sell your home fast.
Thankfully right now, low interest rates are leading to more sales—and faster sales—in the housing market.
And yet a booming housing market doesn’t guarantee that you’ll sell your home fast. There are several factors that impact how quickly you can sell your house.
What to Consider Before Trying to Sell Your Home Fast
First of all, how quickly your house sells depends on the current market. If you’re reading this article months or even years after we originally published it, the market will certainly be different than it is now—for better or for worse.
How quickly your house sells also depends on what your neighborhood is like, your asking price, the condition of the home and yard, and the interior’s appearance. The good news is that you can control some of these variables.
And in this article, we’ll show you how.
But Wait—What About Auctions, Cash Offers and Short Sales?
Many people who are desperate to sell their homes as soon as possible may consider auctions, short sales, or cash offers from house flippers.
The problem with these methods is that you end up selling your house for less than you could—and often less than your loan is worth. (And keep in mind that, with short sales, you’ll likely need to prove you have a financial difficulty, such as a job loss.)
If your need to sell your home fast trumps your need for that money, then these methods might be what you need. Just realize that doing so could still leave you in some debt with your current mortgage.
But if you’d like to sell your house for what it’s really worth, then you should go the traditional route. That said, there are ways to make the process of selling your home as fast as possible.
Try the following 5 suggestions:
1. Deep Clean Your Home
Nothing keeps a house on the market for a long time like grimy walls, smelly rooms, and dirty fixtures.
I’ve seen some houses that looked more like horror shows because they needed to be cleaned so bad. And the seller suffered for it.
If not dealt with, uncleanliness can lead to other major issues, such as bug infestations, mold, and rot. That’s enough to keep a house on the market for months or even years without a buyer.
Your home is likely not as bad as what I just described. But you can still better appeal to buyers by deep cleaning your home. That includes ceilings, walls, and baseboards as well as vacuuming and washing the carpet and cleaning windowsills and doors.
2. Make Repairs and Add a Fresh Coat of Paint
In the same vein as cleaning, make sure you repair any broken furniture or fixtures that go with the house. That may include lamps, ceiling fans, bedroom and bathroom doors, cabinets, pantry doors, plumbing, sinks, toilets, and so forth.
Look around your home for scratched our gouged wood, holes or dents in the walls, or water spots in the ceiling.
Painting the exterior and the interior of your home can also do wonders for first impressions. You’d be surprised what a fresh coat of paint can do to make a home look brand-new.
3. Hire Someone to Stage Your Home
When a buyer walks into your house and sees empty rooms and bare walls, it’s harder for them to imagine living there. They’re more inclined to think about the house analytically.
But when you decorate your home with furniture, paintings, and fixtures, a potential buyer walks in a sees their family sitting down to dinner or cuddling up in front of the TV. With the right décor, a home can be emotionally appealing to the buyer.
That’s the power of staging!
You could potentially clean, repair, and paint your home yourself. (Although if you’re in a time crunch, I recommend hiring someone to do that.) But you shouldn’t try to stage your home yourself.
Stagers are professionally trained in the latest trends and know how to stage a room so that it appeals to buyers as soon as they walk in.
When we at Jessica Foote & Associates work with clients to sell their homes fast, we hire the best stagers and interior decorators. When we staged a home for one of our recent clients, the house was only on the market for a few days before a buyer snapped it up at a high offer.
4. Work With a Real Estate Agent Who Can Sell Your Home Fast
There are numerous benefits to working with a real estate agent when selling your home. But if you want to sell your home fast, it’s much more important that you hire a professional.
That’s because trained real estate agents have their finger on the pulse of the market. We know what makes homes sell quickly in the current economic climate, and we know exactly what to do to make it happen.
Of course, we can’t make any guarantees, but your chances of selling your home fast increase dramatically when you hire an agent like the ones here at Jessica Foote & Associates.
We Can Help You Sell Your Home Fast!
If you’re looking to sell your home fast, we’d love to help you.
When you work with us, not only do we work to sell your home quickly, but we also strive to help you make as much money off it as possible. The client I mentioned earlier not only sold their home in just a few days, but their house went for $75,000 more than comparable homes in their market.
If you’re interested in hiring us to help you sell your home fast, click here to set up a meeting!