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Understanding Real Estate Offers

Learn How Certain Offers Can Help You Sell Your Home Faster In Corpus Christi

Not all offers are created equal. Working with many buyers and sellers as real estate agents, we have seen the importance and strategic advantage that understanding offers can have on selling or buying a home in Corpus Christi. This webpage's purpose is to inform people about the various types of real estate offers, and how to best leverage the offer to suit their needs. Understanding offers can be beneficial for buyers as well. Knowing the situation the seller is in, and adjusting the offer as the buyer can have a big impact on the success of that offer being accepted. 

What Is A Cash Offer
The one type of offer that seems to get a lot of buzz is the cash offer. You have probably seen advertisements for "cash offers on your house in corpus christi", or have heard about the term "cash offer" in one way or another. So what exactly is a cash offer, and how does it affect you? Your situation will determine if a cash offer is favorable for you. Let's say you are a homeowner and have been in the same house 15 years. Lets say that you have several repairs that need to be made on your property, for example you have some foundation problems, and maybe the electrical needs updating. If your property needs these type of updates, it's highly likely that you did not realize the problems were that bad, since they happen slowly over time, and it's also likely that you do not have the money to pay for these problems. This type of situations can be a problem for homeowners because it makes it more difficult to sell their home, especially here is Corpus Christi, were we have things like windstorm requirements for things like the roof or windows and doors. Most buyers have to take out financing in order to purchase a home. The problem with that, is that the financing company is going to require an appraisal on the property, and if the property has foundation issues, or a bad roof, then the financing company is not going to lend the money to the buyer. With cash offers, there is no appraisal associated with the offer. The appraisal is not a requirement for the funds to be dispersed, since there is not a loan involved. In this situation, the seller would benefit from a cash offer, because a normal, financed offer would not be approved in the home's current condition. So essentially, a cash offer is an offer that is not dependent on an appraisal, or bank approval. This makes cash offers very flexible. Another great benefit from a cash offer is that they help the sale of the property happen very fast. If selling your house fast in corpus christi is important to you, you are going to want to receive cash offers. It's not that normal, financed offers cannot happen fast as well, but its likely that a financed offer will take at least 3-4 weeks, if not longer depending on the appraisal. With a cash offer, the closing can happen as fast as 1-2 weeks. This can make a big difference, depending on your situation. Also, the terms of a conventional, financed offer may work well for your situation as well. Not all conventional offers are the same. Although all of these offers are financed, some of them have better terms than others. Some of these terms include closing cost, home warranty, closing date, contingencies and seller paid financing cost. Each off these contract terms can make a huge difference on whether the offer is best for you and your situation.  

How To Get Great Offers
Attracting solid offers on your property is going to happen from two sources. It's going to come from marketing, or it's going to come from reaching out to a cash buyer in your area. Lets first explore the marketing side of things. When you sell a house in corpus christi, your typically work with a realtor who list the property on the MLS, or multiple listing service for you, This provides excellent marketing exposure for your property, but there is also many other marketing techniques you can look into. The better the agent is at marketing, or the more marketing savvy they are, the better chance of attracting great offers for your property. On the other side of the coin, you can reach out to local investors that buy houses in corpus christi. These investors specialize in making cash offers for houses, and are a very easy and stress free way of selling your house. They typically pay for closing cost, and close on a quick timeframe. 

Here are some more resources related to real estate offers. 
How to understand a real estate offer-http://homeguides.sfgate.com/understand-real-estate-contract-3013.html
Breaking down the buyers offer- http://www.realtor.com/advice/sell/breaking-down-the-buyers-offer/