Sell a Home Fast With These Tips

Let me tell you a story about a situation I had one time when I had to sell my home fast in order to buy another one. On the surface that sounds pretty normal, right? But this situation was not really normal at all. I am a real estate investor and so I place ads in the newspaper, on TV and online offering to purchase homes for cash. These ads produce good leads for me every week, so I am used to receiving a lot of calls on my cell phone from people with homes for sale.

But one day I received a call I will never forget. Four siblings had inherited a home from their grandmother who had recently passed away. Grandma's home was free and clear, meaning there was no mortgage, no balance owed against the home. They were all in a big hurry to get their cash because none of them wanted to live in Grandma's home, and none of them was interested in renting the home to tenants either. In order to do keep the home, one of the siblings would have to pay off the other three and nobody had enough interest or money to do so. That's why they called me and left me a voice message saying, "I just need to sell my home fast and I'm wondering if you might want to buy it."

As soon as I heard the message I called back, got the address and met the owners, the four siblings who inherited Grandma's home. It was vacant and ready to go. Everybody wanted their cash and that meant they wanted to sell the home ASAP. I made a deal with them, and then I remembered that I had just purchased another home a couple days previously and had planned to put my remodeling crew to work on it the next day.

This place, I still call it Grandma's home, was going to be a good investment for me, so I changed my mind and decided to close on it and put my crew to work on it right away. So, my problem was that I needed to sell my home fast so that I could buy Grandma's home fast. I needed to sell the other home just the way I purchased it, without remodeling it. Since that time I often have more than one home in the process of being remodeled, but that was back when I only had one construction crew and one project going at a time.

There was only one thing for me to do, which was go through my list of other real estate investors and find one who needed a project house immediately. Fortunately, I found one within a few phone calls, we made a deal, and the next day I was able to sell my home fast and purchase Grandma's home as well. It was a whirlwind of activity, but the other investor was happy, the four siblings were happy, my construction crew was happy and I was happy! I never forgot that week although I've bought and sold many homes since that time.

Comments? Questions? Email Here

© HowtoAdvice.com

How to Advice .com