It's never too early to think about how your home can best attract potential buyers! From basic repairs to home staging, and onward to holding open houses, hiring a real estate agent, making disclosures, and planning your move, you'll find lots of useful information here.
The closing is when a home seller transfers the property to the buyer, fully pays off any mortgages, and receives the sales proceeds.
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Assessing whether it's the home buyer or the bank or mortgage lender that's causing the delay is a good starting point for deciding whether to give the buyer more time to finalize a loan.
Tips for selling your house: setting the right price, timing the sale, and hiring an agent.
Being organized is key to a successful (and sane) home sale.
What you need to disclose to potential home buyers about your property.
Organizing all the documents you need specific to selling a house that belongs to the HOA.
Tips for selling your house: setting the right price, timing the sale, and hiring an agent.
A rent-back agreement can be critical to ensuring that the sellers don't face a gap in housing if they close their sale before finding a new place to live.
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