05-22-2008, 09:48 PM
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: US
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Re: We Need To Sell A House
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Originally Posted by AllThingsPersonalFinance
FredS,
Sell your house quickly! In a bad neighborhood, you'll have kids and drug dealers lighting campfires in the livingroom in no time.
Set a price so that it will sell. Don't set one to dicker.
Find out what agents or brokers are doing first time home buyer seminars in your neighborhood and make sure that they know about your house.
Don't spend a penny more than you have to in order to fix it up. Your new stove will go in the front door at noon and right out the back door at nightfall.
Get an agent and offer bonuses to him and to the buyers. $500-$750 to the agent for a quick sale, home warranty to the buyer, $100 gas card to the buyer, offer Netflix for one year, $300 Home Depot gift card, reimburse buyer at closing for inspection fees...anything.
Since money is not an issue for your parents, go 75%-80% of fair market. That should get your agent's Blackberry ringing.
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I tend to agree with the above opinion. If the house is in a bad neighborhood, then lower the price to the point you are able to sell it.
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