How to Prepare an Inherited Home for Sale

If you’ve decided that selling your inherited home is what you want to do, you have several options available to you. In this quick guide, we’ll take a look at each option as well as how to prepare the home to get the best sale price.

Cleaning Out the Property

Clearing out the home is the first step, and it’s important for several reasons. First of all, it’s important that no important documents or sentimental items are lost in the process, so the house needs to be gone through thoroughly to make sure these items are safely stored. Secondly, it’s a good opportunity for friends and family to receive items they have inherited, fetch any items of sentimental value, and take items that they have use for.

The final reason is that a full home clear out helps put your inherited home in the best position to sell quickly and for a good price. Many homes that have been lived in for decades are brimming with furniture and the clutter of everyday life. A home clear out will open up the space, allow you to stage it well, and show off the proportions of the home. This makes it easy for buyers to envision their own lives there.

Clearing out a family home can be a huge amount of work at a very difficult time in life, so it’s important to remember that help is available. Our home clean out services in Dallas, for example, can professionally clear out the home for you. We will leave it broom swept and ready for selling. It’s not even necessary for you to be there, as we offer this service for local, out-of-state, and international clients.

Three Options for Selling Your Inherited Home

Once the home is cleaned out and/or staged, you have three main options for selling the property.

• Real estate agent – This is the most traditional way to sell a home, but many people are looking at easier and more affordable options. With a real estate agent, you will need to pay commission, which costs an average of 6% of your home’s sale price. You will also have to prepare the home for sale and make it appealing to potential buyers. This means making repairs, putting a fresh coat of paint on the walls, and maintaining the yard and external structure  – which can be expensive. It can also take quite a lot of time to sell the property this way. In Dallas, the average time it takes to sell a home is 84 days, so it’s important to factor this into your plans.

• Private sale – A popular alternative to using a real estate agent is to sell the home yourself. This way, you avoid having to pay real estate commission. However, you will still have to clean, repair, and improve the property to get the right price – and you’ll have to do all the advertising of the property, open house days, and property viewings yourself. This means it’s still quite an expensive route to take. And that can be almost impossible to handle easily if you don’t live nearby or have the time and resources to manage the sale process.

• Cash for houses services – Finally, you can use a cash for houses service like Shiny Key Properties. Our cash for houses team in Dallas buys your home from you, so there’s no need to use an estate agent. We also buy houses sight unseen and in their current condition, so there’s no need to clean, paint, or repair the property. It’s the simplest and most convenient way to sell a home quickly, as we can sell your home in 24 hours.

What Can Our Cash Home Buyers in Dallas Do for You?

If you want to sell property fast without having to look for a buyer, dealing with a real estate agent and paying their commission, or even emptying the home, then the best option is to sell directly to cash home buyers in Dallas.

We can sell your home in 24 hours, putting a lump sum into your account in just a few days. Here’s how our process works:

• You enter your information on our website. We’ll contact you directly to discuss an offer for your property (you can also get a free property evaluation from our website)
• You can accept or reject the FREE NO-OBLIGATION offer
• Cash will be deposited into your bank account – with no real estate agent fees
• We can handle all aspects of the process, including clearing out the home
• You can also call us directly on 469-858-008

That’s all there is to it!

You can also download our FREE eBook for more information on how to sell your home in 24 hours.

Our team is compassionate and highly motivated to offer you the best possible market-related price for your home, so you can sell your home in 24 hours. Not only does this cash go straight into your bank account as soon as the sale goes through, but you also pay zero real estate agent commission.

At Shiny Key Properties, our trained consultants have years of experience in assisting local and out-of-state homeowners to sell their property. To find out more about our cash for homes Dallas service, please contact us today and speak to one of our friendly team members.