What’s the Deal with Instant Cash Offers?

Are you being bombarded with postcards and emails with instant cash offers to buy your home? What’s the deal?

Well, housing inventory is currently at an extreme low, there is strong demand from home buyers, and home prices have been seeing double digit increases, making this a great time to sell your home!

If you have received an unsolicited letter from someone saying that they want to buy your home, it pays to talk to a trusted real estate sales professional before making such an important decision about the sale of what is probably your largest asset. Many of the letters and postcards being sent out to homeowners are being sent by investors, and iBuyers, who are institutional investors, looking to buy properties at wholesale prices so that they can resell them at a higher price.

Even if your home needs updates, or has deferred maintenance, there are lots of options to help you capitalize on your equity and sell your home for the most money possible in today’s market, without having to sell to an investor or iBuyer, so that you can maximize the potential return from the sale of your home.

Before you think about selling to an investor for less than your home is worth, it pays to talk to real estate professional who can give you honest insight into the current value of your home and give you options to sell your home quickly, for more money and less stress.

With such strong demand for housing inventory from home buyers and rising home equity, there are many options available to help home owners to get their home sold for the most potential net, even if the home needs updates or improvements. These options include programs that will help home owners update their home with so that it will appeal to the most potential buyers, with the finishes and features that today’s home buyers are looking for, with no upfront costs. This helps the homeowner sell the home for more, and net more at the end of the day. Other options, such as Knock Home Swap, allow homeowners to move in their desired time frame, take their time to find and buy their desired new home, move into it and update their current home if needed to help it sell quickly for more with no upfront costs.

If you are thinking of selling a home in the San Antonio areas and want to know how much your home is worth and to discuss programs such as instant cash offers, getting your home ready for market with no upfront costs, buying a new home before selling your current home and other innovative options, contact Trudy Edwards, REALTOR with True SA Real Estate Team, KELLER WILLIAMS Heritage.

Trudy Edwards is a Knock Certified Agent and is also certified in Keller Offers Cash Offers program and Keller Offers Ready to Sell program.