The Home Sale Process

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.

Quitclaim deeds, grant deeds, warranty deeds, trust deeds—get answers to frequently asked questions about deeds.

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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