The Biggest Benefits of Selling Your House to an Investor

Guest Blog Post from Emma Jones with Superior Moving PA

Wondering what the best way to sell the old place is? Also, are you trying to sell it as quickly as possible? If both your answers sound like a YES, we’ve got a little suggestion for you. Have you ever considered selling your home to an investor instead of a standard buyer? If you haven’t, now’s the time to think about it. In the article that you’ll find below, we’ll show you some of the most significant benefits of selling your house to an investor.

#1 Investors will purchase your home with cash

No need to emphasize that most of your potential, ordinary buyers will not pay you in cash. Here’s another unfortunate fact: sometimes, a buyer will step into the sale process and end up being denied for the land, making things a bit hard on you since you’ve done all that work only to find a buyer who can’t finish off the purchase. On the other side, investors usually purchase homes in cash and don’t need loan approval. However, what they offer you is what you’ll get (this can be both a good and a bad thing).

Imagine that you’re planning to leave Missouri for another state. By selling your place to an investor, you’ll eliminate all the stress often involved with the home-sale process and prepare yourself for the relocation in the best way possible. And there’s another thing: Missouri is quite known for its moving companies, so when it comes to the whole moving segment – you can rely on experts to take care of it and relocate you stress-free.

#2 A Lot Less Paperwork

By selling your home to an investor, you’ll avoid the mountains of paperwork you’d have to deal with by selling your place with assistance from a real estate agent. You won’t have to deal only with your real estate agent if you choose the other option; you’ll also have to deal with buyers and their realtors. In other words: you’d be covered in contracts and similar documentation, reading and signing many documents that say this and that. If you’re selling your place to an investor, that’s another story: they buy the place directly from you, and no third parties are involved and their contracts are quite short and simple. In other words, that will significantly help you in avoiding high amounts of paperwork you’d otherwise have to deal with.

A person signing some documents.
By selling your home to investors, you’ll avoid all the irritating paperwork that goes hand-in-hand with the sale process

#3 Zero Commissions

Did you know that a real estate agent’s commission fees can sometimes be high? According to Best Cross Country Movers experts, your average real estate agent will require a 6% commission fee on the sale of your old place. In most cases, that could mean you’ll have to give away more than $10k, which is quite a sum. By working with investor buyers, there’s no need to worry about paying for these commission and added on administrative fees. In other words, no one will want their cut from selling your home. This process is a bit like your usual grocery shopping: the goods are there, money’s exchanged, and everyone’s happy with how things went.

#4 You won’t have to worry about the market

You probably already have this info, but the success of an individual real estate agent will significantly depend on the housing market in the area where the property’s located. Even the best real estate players do not influence how the housing market will move. That’s where investors come in handy: they really don’t care about how rough the market is at the given moment; they’ll want to buy your place anyway. Because they might be able to make it so attractive that the market itself becomes something that does not influence the sale process, or they’ll want to wait a bit until the real estate market stabilizes. To phrase it differently: they’ll do waiting for you. Even in the worst of markets, you can find cash investor buyers who are likely to purchase homes.

A top-down view of a neighborhood.
You won’t have to worry about real estate market trends by selling your place to an investor.

#5 Investors buy the place as-is

This one might be the most obvious addition to this list of the biggest benefits of selling your house to an investor. If your home has seen its better days, if it has become something you’d call a run-down place, a real estate agent will most probably avoid working with you. And if they do – they’ll require you to make a specific list of repairs before they consider promoting your place. You won’t have to worry about that by working with an investor. That’s because once they step into the home purchase process, they know what needs to be repaired and how much money they will need to spend to fix it. That’s precisely how they’ll come up with a price they’ll offer you. There won’t be any need for you to boost your home’s curb appeal or stage the place.

The bottom line

If your home is a little worse for wear, needs a bit of love and you really don’t want to deal with all the time, effort, and paperwork a real estate agent sale requires and you don’t want to pay out huge commissions, be sure to check in with an investor, you may find their cash offer is exactly what you are looking for. 

Fill out the form below for a free, no-obligation consultation, and they can offer you options.  They can share how long it would take and what it would cost for a traditional listing, and they can give you a fast cash offer for your home as-is, without the hassle of realtor listing, repairs, and uncertain buyers.

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You can trust our firm offer will not change before closing, and you won’t be hit by any of those surprise fees. We’ll be there to walk you through each step of the sale.
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Kim Tucker

Kim Tucker along with her husband Don and son Scott make up the core kcmoHomeBuyer Team that has been buying homes across the Kansas City Metro since 2000!

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