About two to three months from listing to closing in a normal market: the typical home takes three to six weeks to go under contract and then 30 to 45 days to close, and the first number is the one that varies with the market, the price and the season.
Late spring, listing between March and May, is when most American markets see the most buyers, the fastest sales and the highest prices relative to the rest of the year, but the difference is a few percent, and the state of your own market this month matters more than the calendar.
Price it from recent comparable sales, get it onto the MLS through a flat-fee listing service so buyers' agents can find it, handle showings and offers yourself, and hire a title or escrow company (or an attorney where the state requires one) to run the closing; the saving is the listing commission of two to three percent, and the cost is the work.
A cash-offer investor typically pays 70 to 85 percent of what your home would sell for on the open market after repairs, less the repair cost: the flipper's version is the 70 percent rule, and the large instant-offer companies land higher, around 90 percent, but add a service fee of five to seven percent that brings the net back to the same range.
A guide walks a whole process at length and is written about Nevada, because that is where Kouzr operates. A glossary term defines a word. These are the questions in between: national, answerable in a sentence, and worth the page it takes to say why the sentence is true. Where the honest answer needs figures, the figures are ours and the page says which market they are from. Nothing here is legal, tax or lending advice.
