dmccarty
Super Star Member
I'll let the TBN Collective tell me if I just came up with a crazy
idea on how to sell our house...... /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
The wife and I where talking last night about how in the heck
we where going to fix up the little things on our house, put it
on the market, and build a new house. The usuall issues when
trying to build a new house while selling a current house.
A light bulb turned on, dimly at first but growing ever brighter
as a certain idea took root.... Y'all can tell us if the light is
really dull! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
Our current house is in a "good" section of town. Good local
schools and the kids get to go to the local schools not bused
off for various reasons. While we are in the good section
of town we are most definately one of the low rent areas so
to speak. Unfortunately it really is going rental. The houses
on both sides are rental as is another across the street. The
subdivision has a large percentage of rentals due to the homes
age, size, and location. Not many people want to live in a
1250 sf home in this city....
Soooo, the idea is to call up the owners of the houses of the
rental houses and see if they would be interested in our
house. But we would not just ask the owners of the three
houses we would also call up the companies that manage
rental houses and see if they or their clients would be
interested in purchasing our house.
The advantage to this is that we would have serious buyers
from the start and would not have to have people calling us
as odd hours. Nor would we have to worry about keeping the
house spot free, which is hard to do with a two year old and two dogs.
We figured we would do this somewhat like how we sold our
timber. Have the interested parties look at the house. Give
them a couple of weeks and have them send us a bid for the
house. If we get an acceptable bid we take it. If not we are
left with selling the house the old fashioned way.
The wife will start calling the owners and companies this
week or next and ask if the would be interesting in looking at
our house when it goes on the market in a few months. We
will spend some time to fix up the little things that need to
get done and make the house show better.
Are we nuts?
Thanks,
Dan
idea on how to sell our house...... /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
The wife and I where talking last night about how in the heck
we where going to fix up the little things on our house, put it
on the market, and build a new house. The usuall issues when
trying to build a new house while selling a current house.
A light bulb turned on, dimly at first but growing ever brighter
as a certain idea took root.... Y'all can tell us if the light is
really dull! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
Our current house is in a "good" section of town. Good local
schools and the kids get to go to the local schools not bused
off for various reasons. While we are in the good section
of town we are most definately one of the low rent areas so
to speak. Unfortunately it really is going rental. The houses
on both sides are rental as is another across the street. The
subdivision has a large percentage of rentals due to the homes
age, size, and location. Not many people want to live in a
1250 sf home in this city....
Soooo, the idea is to call up the owners of the houses of the
rental houses and see if they would be interested in our
house. But we would not just ask the owners of the three
houses we would also call up the companies that manage
rental houses and see if they or their clients would be
interested in purchasing our house.
The advantage to this is that we would have serious buyers
from the start and would not have to have people calling us
as odd hours. Nor would we have to worry about keeping the
house spot free, which is hard to do with a two year old and two dogs.
We figured we would do this somewhat like how we sold our
timber. Have the interested parties look at the house. Give
them a couple of weeks and have them send us a bid for the
house. If we get an acceptable bid we take it. If not we are
left with selling the house the old fashioned way.
The wife will start calling the owners and companies this
week or next and ask if the would be interesting in looking at
our house when it goes on the market in a few months. We
will spend some time to fix up the little things that need to
get done and make the house show better.
Are we nuts?
Thanks,
Dan