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Are you looking for some home selling advice? Are you selling your home by owner? If you are looking for some free advice on selling your home by owner, or even if you simply need some good tips to sell real estate, then you have come to the right place. Browse our main article with home selling advice that is related to selling your home by owner, or take advantage of our latest additions which will have plenty of home selling advice. |
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So, you want to sell your home? You’d love to get every dollar possible from it, so you can put a nice down payment on your next residence and maybe even buy a new sofa or big screen TV. If you use a realtor, though, you’ll pay her at least seven percent of the selling price. Add in your portion of the finance charges from the bank on the loan, and you will likely cut up to ten percent off your profit. Imagine owing $150,000 and selling your home for $200,000. “Wow,” you think. “I’m going to have fifty grand for my down payment and moving expenses.”
Then, you get the closing statement from the title company, only to find that you paid that sweet realtor $14,000 and dropped an additional $7,000 on closing and title costs. Suddenly, your 50k profit on selling your home turns into a paltry-looking $29,000. You’re eyeing a shiny new $250,000 home, and with your own closing costs on a new loan, you won’t even have ten percent for a down payment. What’s the answer, you ask? Simple, sell the home without the use of a realtor -- By Owner.
There are several basics to a successful By-Owner sales transaction. Follow these steps and you’ll be well on your way to eliminating most of those exorbitant, superfluous costs. |
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Tenants in Common Definition (New!) - In recent months and years many folks have lost their homes, frequently because they did not understand or correctly analyze certain terms in their mortgages. Often real estate agents and loan officers assume you know what you need to know, so they are not proactive in defining many terms for you. In this context it becomes more important than ever to understand property law concepts...
Buy Land - Should you invest in land? - Similar to playing the stock market, private equity firms and individuals are looking to purchase cheap land in markets where real estate has struggled. Local developers, once upon a time, were the only ones who purchased land from over-leveraged homebuilders when the real estate market hit a funk. Now everyone is getting in on the play. Their goal is to buy these hard assets and wait until the markets return to respectability. The rewards of buying industrial-zoned land overshadow the risks involved. Again, using the stock market as an example, purchasing land is more logical because land does not experience as much volatility. The value of land tends to go upward...
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