Relocation is a complicated event and it requires lots of coordination and energy. We are contacted by local McAllen home sellers calling us or submitting their house information on our website telling us “I’m relocating and have to sell my house fast in McAllen“. The good thing is that can help many of those homeowners sell their house fast because we are constantly buying houses in McAllen TX .
There are many details to remember plus the stress of whatever is making you relocate to begin with – sometimes it’s a new job or a sick family member, other times you need to move to a more benign environment, but the constant factor is that change always brings a big amoung of stress to our lives.
So how do you make the most out of a difficult situation?
Get organized.
You don’t want to end up maintaining a vacant house for 2-3 years. That gets pretyy expensive and empty homes always deteriorate and can attract vandalism.
Although the market is relatively stable at the present time in McAllen, things can suddenly change . We’ve all heard some horror stories over the past couple of decades. Unless you’re super rich, you probably can’t afford to wait it out.
So how do you make the right choices when you’re relocating and need to sell your McAllen TX house fast?
Relocating And Need To Sell My House Fast In McAllen, Pharr, Mission, TX or surrounding cities… Your Options And Steps
First you need to …
- Find out how much your house is worth: To do this you can contact a good real estate agent or connect with us and we can give you a no cost no obligation valuation of your property. Once you know what the house may be able to sell for in the current market… that gives you data to calculate how long you may or may not be able / willing to sell the house.
- Decide how fast you need to sell your house after you move: This is quite important. We’ve seen families who relocated out of state for job related reasons, who had their house on the market for over a year before selling it for a much much lower price than what they hoped to get. Decide how fast you need to sell your house… and how long you’re willing to keep making both mortgage payments, insurance payments, utilities, etc.
- Find a solid real estate agent BEFORE you start packing boxes: Plan ahead so you don’t waste time. Every week that passes by or every extra month that it takes to sell the house… costs you money. Or if you don’t want to use a real estate agent to sell… we are a reputable local house buyer and we’d love to make you a fast-fair all cash offer. Just fill out the form through this link to get started >>
- Calculate the value of selling your house fast vs. “waiting it out” for a dream price: We all want to sell our houses for as much as possible. But one thing many people forget to do is come up with the dollar amount of how much it costs you to hold onto this house. The costs involved includes mortgage (which if you’re still within the first 10 years of the mortgage, the majority of your payment coveres interest and hardly anything is going to principal), insurance, taxes, utilities, maintenance, etc. Lets say you want to sell your house for $200,000… and your mortgage payment is $1,200/mo, taxes $200/mo, $100/mo for insurance, and $200/mo for maintenance (electricity, lawn maintenance, repairs while you’re gone, etc.).Those expenses add up to $1,700/mo in “non equity building” expenses. If it takes you 7 months to sell that house through a real estate agent for that $200,000… it cost you $11,900 in DIRECT “holding costs” + you had to pay $12,000 in real estate agent fees (assuming 3% for the buyers agent and 3% for the sellers agent). That adds to $23,900 in money that IS LOST. That doesn’t even account for the value of your time, your stress in thinking about that property sitting on the market, the opportunity cost of what you could have been doing with that extra money during those 7 months, etc. So the real cost to you was likely closer to $30,000.But, what if you were to sell your house next week and avoid all of that? Even if you sold for a discount below the retail price (lets say… $175,000)… you’re still ahead of the game by selling the house NOW at a discount to a home buyer like our company vs. 7 months later at full price (and paying holding costs and real estate agent fees). Does it make sense?
- Take action!: Whatever you decide… decide and take action. If you want to list via the real estate agent route, great! Find a reputable local McAllen TX agent. If you’d rather not have to wait and not have to pay real estate agent commissions… then a viable option may be to sell your house to us 🙂
And if you’ve got a lot of time on your side and a really great property, you might want to test the market by offering it out at a high price. There’s a small chance someone might just fall in love and be willing to overpay – people do crazy things for love.
Most properties are pretty average, in reality. They tend to be like the other houses around them, in the same way that people who live near each other tend to have a lot in common. So unless your property is really exceptional, as in magazine-cover quality – special, you won’t capture the most money in the market by pricing at the highest point.
You can also win by marketing your property for rent and sale at the same time, just to see what happens first. You have to maintain control of the process, which can confuse even some experienced real estate brokers.
In certain situations, we may partner with property owners to help secure lease option agreements where highly qualified purchasers rent the property for an agreed time before buying.
In other cases, we may help renegotiate a loan, help make monthly payments or conduct a short sale with a bank.
We love helping people solve complicated real estate related problems.
Creative solutions can bridge the gap to get you where you need to be.
Who Is Dolfin RGV And How Can We Help You If You’re Relocating And Need To Sell In McAllen?
We’re local investors based in McAllen, TX. We support our families and beautify neighborhoods by buying houses from McAllen, Mission, Edinburg, San Juan, Pharr, Mercedes Texas and surrounding cities home owners who need to sell fast for any reason.
The types of sellers who tend to work with us include people who…
- Need to sell fast (we can close in as little as 10 days if you need us to and papers are right)
- Don’t want to hassle with listing a property with an agent and showings to strangers
- Don’t want to pay real estate agent fees or commissions
- Can’t sell their house for one reason or another (we buy houses in as-is condition, so no repairs are needed)
- … or a variety of other reasons
But we’re passionate people, and we believe in the McAllen community.
We’re honest and straightforward.
We’ll quote you a fair price, and we can close fast with cash, no waiting for credit approval
If you’re prepared to wait and can hire professionals to help, you can manage the sale of your property from a distance. In certain circumstances that risk can pay off.
We’re happy to help you find answers to your questions about your McAllen real estate, so please feel free to call us at (956) 904 5234 and chat with us anytime.