These “we buy houses” websites claim that you can sell your house in 10 days and be done with the entire transaction.

Imagine that: call, contract, close, cash in hand in less than 10 days.

Can it be possible in this market?

The Secret to the 10 day house sale.

Let me fill you in on the secret to selling your house in 10 days.

Price or terms.

Before I explain how that works, let me share with you two reasons normal real estate transactions take so long

1.  Price at market level. If you want top market dollar to sell your house fast, you will not sell your house in 10 days.  Those days are over.  Bidding wars for houses are rare.  Your house is like 200 others on the market that people can look at.  It might take 30-120 days for a buyer to even choose your house.

2. Banking delays. If your buyer needs a bank loan, you’ll have to wait 45-60 days in current market conditions for a bank approval.  And sometimes, banks will not loan on a house even if the buyer agrees to a price.  I’ve got second hand stories of banks killing an agreement because they don’t like the price.

To close your transaction quickly, you’ll need to avoid the banks and have a cash buyer.

How to sell your house in 10 days.

Cash home buyers are professionals who either buy houses to fix and resell them, or buy houses to hold them as rentals.

These cash home buyers are looking for returns on their investment, not a home to live in.

For any of these “we buy houses” people to deploy their cash, it’s got to make a good return.

Thus, you as the seller must price your house according to the formulas they need to make a good return.

If everyone around you is asking for $100,000, and you will sell your house for $60,000, you’ll sell your house in 10 days, depending on the condition of the property.  By the time the house is fixed up and resold, the investor may only make 10-15% return after expenses.

If everyone around you asks for $100,000 and you will sell for $90,000, you’ll not sell your house in 10 days to anyone in this industry for cash.

Terms

If you will be flexible and allow for terms such as taking over payments or holding a note for the equity, you can get a much higher price and close your transaction in 10 days or less.

The seller of one house I dealt with was willing to wait 5 years for her funds – she got an above market price in less than 10 days because she offered terms.

Another house seller let my buyer to take over the mortgage payments and that gave her a closing in less than 14 days.

To Sell Your House in 10 days

If you want to sell your house in 10 days or less, these are some of the criteria you’ll have to consider to help make it work.

If you are not sure and want to talk with a professional, you can give me a call at 804-915-9475 during normal business hours.  The consultation is free and confidential.

Or fill out this form to start a conversation by email.

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In some markets, these will be resold to first time home buyers who often are using FHA or VA loans to secure their house.

One reason people come to us to sell their ugly house fast is that their outdated or ugly house will not pass an FHA or VA inspection, or even inspection for a section 8 rental.  While this is not an article focused on such inspections requirements, you have to consider this in your pricing.

How FHA inspections influence your selling price

A seller called me wanting to sell his ugly inherited house fast for a certain price.

A partner went out to look at the house to determine if we could buy this ugly house fast.

The end goal was to buy this house fast, fix it up and resell it to a first time home buyer.  In this current market, that often means an FHA insured loan, or a VA loan.

Going through some of the requirements of such inspections, the partner came up with a list of expected repairs to pass that inspection to a future buyer: $30,000.

The seller was not prepared to see that his house needed $30,000 in repairs.  But many of those repairs would be needed to meet FHA requirements for first time home buyers.

To make a deal work, this seller would have to come off his asking price by $20,000, because of the additional repairs and ugrades required by the needs of an FHA inspection.  He knew this ugly inherited house needed work, but he wasn’t aware of the extent of work needed.

FHA inspection requirements force a price change.  The seller could choose to fix up his own house and sell it for full market value – or simply settle for the lower price and walk away from it.

In this market, FHA and VA will impact the price at which you can sell your house to an investor.

If you want to get rid of your house that has too many repairs, call us during normal business hours, eastern time 804-915-9475.

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This is a question I get during our free telephone consultation on a regular basis.

A person who wants to sell their house fast for cash searches the internet for phrases like

• Who Buys Houses?
• Who Buys Houses for cash?
• Are those who buy houses for cash scammers?

Who Buys Houses for cash?

We can, no matter where they are in the United States.

We buy houses for cash in our local market in Richmond VA, but through our nationwide network of investors we can help you sell your house for cash in nearly any market.

What is the key to Buying My House for Cash?

The key to us buying your house for cash is price.

We buy houses to make a profit on the risk we take to buy your house for cash.

To make a speedy transaction to sell your house for cash to us, you must price it accordingly.

We buy houses for cash, but do not pay top dollar.

We who buy your house for cash will only pay liquidation prices.

If you want to walk away from your house and it’s problems, we are a solution who buys houses for cash.

Your next step:

Call Chris at 804-915-9475 during normal business hours for your free consultation.

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You’ve tried to sell your Virginia house fast via traditional means:

• Perhaps with a realtor
• Perhaps on your own as a FISBO.
• Maybe tried a few “We buy houses people.”

But the house won’t sell for the price you are asking.

I know the frustration that has caused.  I’ve bought houses that I couldn’t resell.

Each month making payments on a mortgage on a house I couldn’t sell fast.

Each month worrying about vandals damaging the house while I was waiting for the house to sell fast.

Some of these were ugly houses that I wanted to sell.

Some of these were houses I had fixed up.

I know what an emotional challenge it is to sell a house fast that won’t sell.

Your Solution:  Fix the price.

When it comes to houses, that’s the way to get it sold.  Change your price.

Make the price attractive to investors who will buy it.

Make the price attractive to underprice your competition.

How we can help you

We can present you with different options that help us buy your house that won’t sell, anywhere in the United states.

We can access private money, so there is no bank involved, so we can buy your house that won’t sell for cash, anywhere in the US.

Want Us To Buy Your unsellable House?

Give Chris a  call at 804-915-9475 and we’ll go over some options for you.

9-5 Eastern Time.

Or, fill out our House won’t sell Form and we’ll likely be in touch within 24 hours.

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For example, this week, I’m working on a really ugly house that has had 3 feet of standing water in the basement — it’s likely been that way for a while.

The foreclosing bank tried to deal with it — couldn’t handle it.

I thinking that a deal is forth coming to buy that ugly house.

Here are two more examples of buying ugly houses anywhere:

• Two weeks ago, a vacant house that had been vandalized, stripped to the studs, and windows broken.  We agreed to buy that ugly house for cash, and it closed in less than 2 weeks.
• Last month, we got a really ugly house sold to one of our our investors.  The cats had peed in it for so long that all visitors had a gag reflex and needed to shower afterwards.

Right now, we are moving ugly house inventory in many different states.

If you have a really ugly house, but don’t know how to get rid of your ugly house, we might be able to make something happen for you.

We can present you with different options that help us buy your ugly house, anywhere in the United states.

We can access private money, so there is no bank involved, so we can buy your ugly house for cash, anywhere in the US.

Want us to buy your ugly house?

Give Chris a  call at 804-915-9475 and we’ll go over some options for you.

9-5 Eastern Time.

Or, fill out our Buy Your Ugly House Form and we’ll likely be in touch within 24 hours.

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Ugly house due to lots of junk.

The ugly house was not the problem.

• Stuff was stacked floor to ceiling.
• Cobwebs in corners
• Trails navigating through the junked up stuff.
• Outdated stuff, but mostly pack-rat type piles of stuff.
• Did i Mention stuff?

That could be fixed.

UGLY and STINKY HOUSE

On top of having a really ugly house, the house stunk.

Cats had littered and urinated everywhere.

Cats.

Visiting the ugly house triggered a vomit reflex.

After visiting, one felt like you had to take a shower.

One couldn’t do any business in the house, couldn’t even stay in it very long.  It was too ugly, too smelly.

Sometimes I’ll visit ugly houses, but stinking houses must be the last appointment of the day.

We Buy Ugly and Stinking Houses.

But we worked a deal with the seller.

We bought the house and closed in under 30 days.

Ugly houses full of cast off junk can be fixed with a dumpster – Toss. Toss. Toss.

Stinking ugly houses can be fixed with a whole lot more.

But we solved the sellers major problem of selling a stinking house.

Do you have a Stinking Ugly House to sell?

If you have a stinking ugly house, we buy ugly and stinking houses.

Simply give us a call at 804-915-9475 for a free consultation by telephone and we’ll by that stinking ugly house at the right price.

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I’ve a had a few ugly houses come my way and let me tell you the way it works.

How to Price it

Do you want to me to buy your really ugly house?

The best way for me to get you top dollar is for you to understand the formula I use.   If your number to sell your really ugly house and my number to buy your really ugly house is close, then we can do business.

1.  What would your house sell in a reasonable 30 days if it was the prettiest one and best featured one in your neighborhood.

2.  What are the amount of repairs needed to get your ugly house into that condition?

To qualify for our cash in this market, your price of your ugly house must fit our formulas that use those two values and still have a reasonable profit spread that makes everyone happen.

Here is a basic guideline.

• If top dollar is $100,000, and your ugly house needs 50,000 in repairs, we could pay no more than $10,000 for your property.
• If top dollar is $100,000, and your ugly house needs $20,000 in repairs, we could pay no more than $35,000 for your property.

Of course, I don’t reveal our entire formula, but these give you some kind of guidelines when trying to sell your ugly house.  You’ll find these formulas somewhat consistent across the skilled cash investors.

Price your ugly house in our ball park and we’ll buy your ugly house fast for cash

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Ugly House from too much clutter?

How about missing walls?

Tress growing through the floor?

Damaged floors?

Horribly outdated bathroom?

We buy houses in any condition.  Ugly House?  Sure.

It doesn’t matter how ugly or outdated the house is, we buy houses quickly, as-is, often for all cash.

Get our Cash Offer for Your House in 24 Hours or simply pick up the phone and call us at 804/915-9475.

We are not affiliate with Homevestors, so we cannot use their “We Buy Ugly Houses” trademarked phrase.

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You’ve got a house that you want to sell fast in Richmond.

What can you do?

You may have tried the conventional way with an agent and failed after 90 / 120 / 180 days.

You may have an urgent cash need.

It’s hard to Sell My House Fast in Richmond Virginia

There are several investor homebuyers like in our market.

Why spend hours making phone calls that they don’t return, or talk with an intake operator who will say “I’ll pass this along” and you never hear back from them.

When you call us, you’ll likely get me on the phone.  No intermediaries.  You talk direct with the owner about selling your house fast in Richmond.

Likewise, we’ve got a network of thousands of investors that can help you if we don’t personally buy your house.  We have the expertise to help you move your house to our network.

We have been buying homes in the Richmond Virginia area since 2002, helping people unload their houses to help them out of ugly situations:

• Divorce,
• Foreclosure that is coming
• emergency relocation,
• Ugly home, or
• Way too many repairs.
• Inherited house

The situation may not be ugly, but maybe it is an estate case and the relatives are clamoring for proceeds from  the sale of the house.

How to sell my house fast in Richmond Va.

Pick up the phone and call me at 804-915-9475.

Let us talk on the phone for an initial consultation to discuss how you can sell your house fast to a professional home buyer like me.

After we talk and dicuss options to sell your house fast, we’ll setup a time to visit the property or to have the property photographed by my photographer.

Then we work to sell your house fast and unload it for you.

4 days to sell my house fast in Richmond

The fastest record we have had to unload a house was about 4 days (which turned into 8 because of surprise title issues).

The seller got their cash in record time.

Hint: price it right and you will sell your house that fast.

If you expect last year’s peak price point, you won’t sell your house fast, and it will likely sit on the market for 120 days unless it is move-in ready and you have a qualified buyer.

Next steps to sell my house fast in Richmond

During business hours, pick up the phone and call us at 804/915-9475.

If you are looking at this at night, feel free to use this form to contact us about your situation and we’ll have a confidential discussion on the telephone.

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This may be extremely important to you for a number of good reasons:

• You’re stressed out. The slow-moving process of selling your house is getting to you because it’s dragging on and on and on – and you’ve been stuck in a situation where your buyer is waiting for their property to sell.
• Property problems. Buyers keep being put off by repair problems with the property. Maybe it simply needs a lot of work (Ugly House?),
• You’re caught between two homes. Life has become complex. You’ve bought a second home – without selling the first – and the bills are draining you, or you’ve moved jobs and life is on hold until the home sale happens. You’ve got two, maybe three payments on the house?
• Debt difficulties and the threat of repossession. Is it falling Behind on Payments?

I have anecdotal evidence from some sellers that have paid upwards of $20-40 thousand in transaction costs to sell their house after making all the repairs, paying an agent, and assisting with closing.

That’s not FAST, and that’s very Expensive.

The key to selling to an investor is the right price.  You determine what price you need and we’ll see if we can unload the house for you.

What now?

Get our Cash Offer for Your House in 24 Hours (in most cases), or simply pick up the phone and call us at 804-915-9475

I don’t know if you’ll be able to sell your Richmond VA house for cash to us or not, but at least give us a try.

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