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What is the Least amount of time it took you to sell a house?

Posted on 2/13/16 at 10:42 am
Posted by PapaZulu
Davidson, NC
Member since May 2014
423 posts
Posted on 2/13/16 at 10:42 am
Our agent listed ours at 9 am yesterday, we signed an all cash full price offer at 6pm!
Posted by achenator
Member since Oct 2014
3333 posts
Posted on 2/13/16 at 10:43 am to
sold it too cheap, baw
Posted by Bwana Whiskey
Member since Dec 2008
6777 posts
Posted on 2/13/16 at 10:44 am to
We're putting ours up in April. Hope we have the same luck as you. Average here is 90 days.
Posted by PapaZulu
Davidson, NC
Member since May 2014
423 posts
Posted on 2/13/16 at 10:46 am to
Thats what i thought too, however all cash no inspection closing costs is worth the extra few grand i may get with bidding it up.
Posted by N2cars
Member since Feb 2008
40355 posts
Posted on 2/13/16 at 10:46 am to
18 hours.

Full asking.
Posted by Tuscaloosa
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Member since Dec 2011
50634 posts
Posted on 2/13/16 at 10:48 am to
Ours was on the market in December in Tuscaloosa for 2 days before we had a buyer. Sold it for full asking price and $12K more than we paid for it 2 years ago. It was a surprisingly painless process, and from what I understand we were very lucky. It had been on the market for more than 6 months when we originally purchased it.
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Posted by Upperdecker
St. George, LA
Member since Nov 2014
33903 posts
Posted on 2/13/16 at 10:48 am to
Yea you just got played by your agent
Posted by PurpleandGold Motown
Waltzing Between the Raindrops
Member since Oct 2007
24864 posts
Posted on 2/13/16 at 10:50 am to
3 hours.

But I'm a Realtor, so I have more chances than the average person.

For what it's worth, the zipline in the back yard sold it.
Posted by N2cars
Member since Feb 2008
40355 posts
Posted on 2/13/16 at 10:50 am to
Maybe, maybe not.

Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered.
Posted by PSU2LSU
Oxford MS
Member since Apr 2011
3224 posts
Posted on 2/13/16 at 10:50 am to
Put a for sale by owner sign up and and sold it in a few days. Ended up selling it to someone in the same neighborhood. our first house. Paid $115k sold it 3 years later for $165k during the height of the real estate boom.
Posted by PSU2LSU
Oxford MS
Member since Apr 2011
3224 posts
Posted on 2/13/16 at 10:52 am to
The fastest we bought a house was within a few hours of it being posted. Didn't even last a day before we put in a full price offer with no inspection. Ended up paying $150k and sold it 3 years later for $185k.
Posted by N2cars
Member since Feb 2008
40355 posts
Posted on 2/13/16 at 10:54 am to
Similar to our deal.

Paid 99.5 in 1991, sold for 162 in 1999. The lady wanted to live by her Mom.
Posted by ruzil
WNC
Member since Feb 2012
18465 posts
Posted on 2/13/16 at 10:56 am to
We sold our house in Cleveland using a real estate company called next home. For $995 dollars, they would list it in the MSL, handle the contracts and had an agent show it.

On the second day, I had a young couple on the patio and another couple at the kitchen table negotiating the price up. I wound up getting $335K for a house I built for $220K 9 years prior. This was in 2000.

I was happy with the profit we made on that house and every now and then I check zillow prices on that house and the prices on it are about 10K more than what I sold it for 16 years ago. I guess I got out at the right time.

Oh, and it was nice not paying that 6% commission on the sale price.
Posted by shawnlsu
Member since Nov 2011
23682 posts
Posted on 2/13/16 at 10:57 am to
quote:

all cash full price offer


You obviously didn't ask enough. Your realtor needed the commission now and screwed you into listing too low.
Posted by Cosmo
glassman's guest house
Member since Oct 2003
132646 posts
Posted on 2/13/16 at 11:04 am to
Realtor came in to take a look. He made an offer on the spot more than what I had planned as an asking price. He wanted it to rent it.
Posted by soccerfüt
Location: A Series of Tubes
Member since May 2013
76156 posts
Posted on 2/13/16 at 11:05 am to
quote:

You obviously didn't ask enough.
You don't know that.

It certainly could be true, but it's not a certainty.
Posted by GusMcRae
Deep in the heart of the Big Sleazy
Member since Oct 2008
3835 posts
Posted on 2/13/16 at 11:15 am to
Cash offer, before we ever put it on the market. There was a girl in HR, who knew I was leaving the company and moving. She had recently become engaged to a serious sugar daddy, and they had been looking for a nice house in the area. I was skeptical, b/c it was a really big house (almost 6k sq ft), and she only had 2 kids from a previous. Well it turns out she was preggo, and like I said, her new guy was fairly baller status.

I invite them over to see the house, thinking nothing would come of it. Before they left, the guy tells me they would like to buy the house for $xxx, and it would be a cash deal. >$50k more than we paid 2 years earlier.

Posted by PapaZulu
Davidson, NC
Member since May 2014
423 posts
Posted on 2/13/16 at 11:28 am to
I forgot to mention we got two other offers both for $10,000 less than our asking price. Both wanting inspections and wanting closing costs. It is also the highest one home has sold per square foot since 2008. The neighborhood has deteriorated tremendously since we bought it, and the property backs up to a sewage plant. I am more than happy. Our God is great! Did I lose out on a few thousand dollars, maybe, who cares it's just money. Putting our other house up in Kansas in April. Hope it goes this smoothly.
Posted by ProudLSUMom
Member since Sep 2007
3334 posts
Posted on 2/13/16 at 11:48 am to
All cash is great but no inspection is the icing on the cake! Congrats!
Posted by Yewkindewit
Near Birmingham, Alabama
Member since Apr 2012
22021 posts
Posted on 2/13/16 at 11:56 am to
This. Was merely thinking about selling my house when a hired house Hunter knocked on my door. This was 1981. He asked if my house was for sale at I said Yes. A beighbor sent him over when they did not want to sell their's. He tossed out a price, I made up a crazy number that ended up being 65% more than I paid 4 yrs earlier. He told me he'll take it. Basically it took 1-2 minutes.
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