Sell your Home Fast in Portland, A How To Guide

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Need to sell a home fast in Portland? As a top Portland real estate agent I’ve listed all the main tips I’ve learned over time, so that you can get your Portland home sold fast.

Avoid quick cash for your house schemes. Yes this is a way to sell your home fast. It is also a good way to get scammed. Fast cash for your house is a scam advertised all over the Portland area, online and on cheesy yard signs by many different outfits. One thing you can be sure of, you will get less than market value. In fact, if you’re lucky the cash investor will offer you 80% of the value of the Portland home in its current (even rough) condition. Truth is, the investors need to buy your home on the cheap because they are looking to make a small fortune by “flipping” the property, fixing it up some and then re-listing it on the Portland real estate market. Even if you can’t fix up your home, no matter the shape it is in, you’ll still get more money for your home and still sell fast if you list it with a Portland real estate agent on the regular market.

Clean and declutter your Portland home. In order for your Portland home to sell fast, it must be in move-in-ready condition. This does not mean that you have to make expensive upgrades or spend a lot of money on your property. What is does mean is that you might have to host a garage sale, donate items, or get a storage unit. You’ll also need expert advice on what goes and what stays. That advice is part of my services as a top real estate agent in Portland. I enjoy helping a seller prepare their home for the market. The truth of the matter is, messy and cluttered homes do sell, but they tend to take longer to do so. Many buyers need to move in right away and will be worried about the property’s immediate availability, unless the Portland home is clean and decluttered.

Fix your Portland Home. For many of the same reasons listed above, if your property is in need of repair it will not sell fast unless you list it at below market value. There is a great big Portland buyer market pool, but that pool shrinks considerably if your home needs repair. Not everyone is willing to take on a property that needs help. Many loans that the Portland buyer can obtain will be hindered by a home in need of repairs. Portland real estate agents will keep their buyers from visiting the home unless they believe their buyer can handle a project. Again, if you can fix the property up and present it clean and decluttered, you can sell it fast for market value. If you can’t present the home in that fashion, be prepared to sell for less than Portland real estate market value to get it to sell fast.

Get the best marketing package available. These days the internet dominates Portland real estate home sales. According to an NAR (National Association of Realtors) report, 92% of buyers are using the internet to find the home they are going to purchase. I often tell my clients, there are three types of Portland real estate agents. There are the agents that work with a few select websites. Then there are the agents that get the home listed on ALL the valid real estate websites out there that buyers are using to look at homes, thousands of sites. Finally, a third type of Portland real estate agent (myself and few others) will list the Portland home on all the applicable real estate sites and PAY money to promote the listing above the rest of the listings on those main sites. For instance, I pay to promote my listings on the top five real estate websites in the U.S. (according to our real estate news source Inman news) and more.

That’s it. Truthfully if you follow these steps you’ll have great success. You’ll need to rely on your local knowledge and the expert advice of your Portland real estate agent to determine the true market value of your home. The Portland real estate market is in great shape in 2014 and looks like it will be solid for years to come. This means as long as you present the home right and have the best marketing package and price it right – it will sell and it will sell fast!
Let me know if I can help further. Good luck out there.

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Stephen made the experience of selling my first house seamless. I live in another state but he kept me informed and moved the process along without a hitch. The only thing another agent could have done differently was charge a much higher commission. I only wish he was able help me purchase in my state. Highly recommend his service and business model.

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