How To Sell Your House FSBO In Metro Detroit

How to Sell your House FSBO in Metro Detroit

How to sell your house FSBO in Metro Detroit” you’re here because of a few reasons probably…

Selling your house is something you’ll have to do maybe just a few times in your life.  And unless you know a local Metro Detroit real estate agent who will sell your house for free or a hugely discounted commission… it can be a real pain in the rear and an expensive process for you as well…

  • You have zero or very little equity in your house & can’t afford to pay a real estatee broker’s hefty commissions
  • You have equity but want to try to save money selling the house yourself before you resort to hiring an agent
  • You’re in foreclosure (or heading that way) and just need to sell fast without incurring thousands in agent commissions
  • You can’t wait the months and months it sometimes takes to sell a house in the Metro Detroit area in this market so you want to try to sell it more quickly

Whatever one you land in… there are ways to sell your house yourself here in the local Metro Detroit real estate market.

Since 2013, housing has experienced a recovery in parts of Metro Detroit. Selling your house now may be more profitable than yesterday or tomorrow. In most cases, it is about using smarter marketing than your competition but also having realistic expectations about what you can achieve through a sale.

This article will provide some guidelines to help you sell your Metro Detroit area house yourself.

How To Sell Your House FSBO In Metro Detroit – Let’s Dive In

Be A Metro Detroit Real Estate Market Expert (or as close to one as you can become)

The first and most important step is doing a market research on your neighborhood in the Metro Detroit MI area. This step involves visiting various home marketing sites (Zillow, Eppraisal the Chase home value estimator, etc), calling a real estate agent or two to see what your home is worth, or reading about the various market pricing techniques.Proper homework on these issues will allow you to come up with a right price for your house and also helps you to avoid making certain selling mistakes.

If you don’t want to hassle with trying to come up with a home value yourself… give us a call at 586-636-0088 and we’ll give you an honest fair valuation of what your house is worth in today’s retail market (if you’re going to wait the 3-6+ months to find the perfect retail buyer). And if you want us to… we’ll make you a fair all-cash offer on your house to give you that option of selling quickly (we can close in as little as 7 days if you want to or stretch it out over many months to work with your schedule).

Pinpoint Where The Market’s At

This step is almost similar to conducting market research, only that in this case, you are bound to your neighborhood and similar houses. Are there lots of houses for sale in your neighborhood here in Metro Detroit? If so, what is the average that they are listing for?  Are there lots of foreclosures in your neighborhood? That may drag your house price down.

Put A Valuation On Your House

As a seller, your house should be in top condition or shape in order to sell at a good price. Identify certain unique characteristics about it and emphasize them during the marketing. For example, in a Metro Detroit, a house with a drive way parking may be more attractive to buyers compared with one with a garage parking.

Also, does your house require repairs?  Does it need to be repainted inside or out?  How is the condition of the roof?  Is the landscaping in good shape? Is the house outdated at all? (you know, those popcorn ceilings ;-).  All of these things can make the house more attractive or less attractive depending on the buyer… which changes the price they’re willing to pay.

After all of this… come up with an asking price for your Metro Detroit home that is fair… isn’t so high it’ll take you 12 months to sell the house… but is attractive so you get a frenzy of buyers who are ready to buy it quickly.

Use Lots Photos And Videos Are Key

Metro Detroit buyers are obsessed with media. Taking walk-through videos of the house and using the videos to advertise will enable you to reach a wider market. In fact, these videos are considered more transparent than taking photos.  However, this should not stop you from using the latter option since it is more affordable compared to the video.

So take some great pictures. Take a picture of every room in the house that helps show it off. Take a picture of the house from the outside in a few different angles… people want to see the house before they ever show up to see it. So having great pictures of your house online could be the difference between getting the right buyer quickly… and waiting months and months to sell.

Get Your House “Listed” On The Local Metro Detroit MLS And Market It

You can find low fee (low quality) real estate brokers these days who will charge you only a thousand or two to put your house on the local Metro Detroit MLS.  This can get your house in front of all of the real estate agents quickly (so be prepared to pay those “buyers” agents a 3-4% buyers broker fee along with the fee you agreed to pay your discount broker.  here’s where the fun begins.  Every wanna-be buyer gets to kick you out of your house ata a moments notice because they’re interested.  Not knowing if they can qualify, actually want it or are just out for a good time.  And you must let them in to see it otherwise how will you ever find that needle in a haystack who actually has the means to “close” on yoru house?

All Of This Sound Like A Lot Of Work To Sell Your Metro Detroit House FSBO Right?

It will be.

And in the end, many Metro Detroit house sellers think they’re saving money and time by marketing the house themselves… when in the end it costs them more money to go that route.

When you sell your own house here are some things you need to consider…

  • If you’re not a good marketer or aren’t ready to spend a bunch of time marketing your house right… selling it yourself may not be your best bet
  • If you don’t do a good job preparing the house and the marketing materials… and working with buyers to really build the value of your house in their minds… you may actually sell the house for 3-8% less than you may get for the same house an experienced person marketed the house for you
  • Too many sellers never think about holding costs or opportunity costs… every month that your house doesn’t sell means another mortgage payment, tax payment, insurance, utilities, etc.  If your mortgage payment is $1,500/mo… and $1,300 of that is interest… if it takes you 7 months to sell your house… that cost you an extra $9,100 (not to mention taxes and insurance you paid during that time).  So, if you were able to sell that house more quickly… would it make sense for you to provide a buyer a discounted price today so you can close quickly and move on? Something to think about.

If you’d rather not put up the hassle of trying to sell your Metro Detroit house yourself… and would rather just sell it quickly for a fair price without paying any commissions or fees…

… here at Easy Sale Today we actually buy local Metro Detroit MI houses.

We’d love to make you a fair, NO OBLIGATION and NO HASSLE cash offer on your house.

We can close quickly (in as little as 7 days if you wanted to)… which would save you thousands of dollars vs. trying to sell the house yourself and waiting for months.

Also, when we buy local Metro Detroit houses we do all repairs that are needed (we pay for it ourselves) so you don’t have to worry about that.

How To Get A Discreet Fast Cash Offer On Your Metro Detroit House

If you want to sell a property quickly and confidentially - let Easy Sale Today make you a fast and fair cash offer.

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We look forward to working with you.