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  • How Do I Sell My House Without An Agent in Jacksonville Beach?

    If you’re looking to sell your house or investment property in Jacksonville Beach without using a real estate agent, we can help.

    Although we do cooperate with brokers, sometimes it’s best to avoid paying someone to be in the middle.

    After all, paying 5-6% of the sale of a property in a commission is a lot of money. In certain situations, FL brokers and real estate agents can be very useful and earn their commission. Not always.

    How Do I Sell My House Without An Agent in Jacksonville Beach?

    There are a few ways to avoid paying high commissions in your FL sale.

    First, there’s a tricky custom that you’ve gotta know about.

    In most sales in Jacksonville Beach, roughly half of the commission you pay as the seller goes to pay for the buyer’s broker.

    Doesn’t make much sense, right?

    Why should you pay for the agent on the other side of the table?

    Truthfully, it defies logic – it’s just what’s typically done.

    You can use that to your advantage in a few ways.

    First, factor in the commissions paid when you’re looking at the comparable sales. If the properties similar to yours sold for prices that included commissions, take that into account.

    Don’t underprice your property – be aware that a savvy buyer may expect to take a discount too. If you’re doing the work of one agent, you can expect to save that money.

    Sometimes in Jacksonville Beach, buyers who aren’t represented by an agent won’t remember to negotiate the buyer’s side commission out of the price for themselves, so don’t remind them if you don’t want to pay them. Just don’t be surprised if it comes up during the negotiation.

    You may want to consider offering 2.5% to buyer’s agents who will bring their clients to show your property. Sure, it’s a lot of money. If you’re pricing your property including that commission, you can always negotiate a better deal for a purchaser who comes without an agent.

    On the other hand, if you don’t leave room for the buyer’s agent’s commission, you’ll be excluding most of the buyers in the market in Jacksonville Beach.

    Over 90% of transactions happen through the MLS – that’s the Multiple Listing Service. It’s the main database that all the brokers in Jacksonville Beach use to access information for their clients on the houses, condos, land and investment properties for sale, along with data on the sold prices.

    Once upon a time, you had to pay a full commission to get your property on the MLS. Now in Jacksonville Beach, there are a few brokers who will charge you a fee just to list your property on the MLS. Often, you spend a few hundred bucks and you only pay a commission if the sale closes.

    Compared to the cost of a newspaper ad, the MLS is a cheap way to market your property to a very wide audience.

    All the major real estate search sites like Realtor.com, Zillow, Yahoo Homes, etc. get data from the MLS. Chances are good that when you submit your listing in Jacksonville Beach to the MLS, information on your property will end up on most of the major sites within a few days.

    Each of those sites sells ads. They’ve got packages that let you pay to enhance your listing, feature it at the top of the search, and a lot of other bells and whistles that might or might not get an interested buyer to buy your property.

    Advertising is a gamble. Sometimes open houses in Jacksonville Beach FL can be a great way to sell a property, and sometimes they’re a waste of time. Same with newspaper ads, craigslist postings, fancy signs – sometimes they work, and sometimes they don’t.

    To effectively sell your property on your own, you have to market it well.

    Putting up fliers and signs around your neighborhood can generate some calls, and there’s a lot of free websites where you can post information. But often just putting up flyers and an open house isn’t enough if your house doesn’t appeal to the average home buyer.

    In theory, real estate agents charge big commissions because they have to spend a lot of money up front to advertise your property. By advertising lots of properties at once, they expect to get more phone calls – and obviously, they’ll make good profits by selling lots of houses.

    Certain properties might require thousands of dollars in advertising expenses before the right buyer happens to see the ad and call.

    If you want to avoid paying any commissions, you can also sell your house to investors like us for CASH

    We fair prices for properties – and we can close fast (in as little as 3-5 days if you need to).

    Sometimes we’ll purchase Jacksonville Beach houses, fix them up, then rent them out… sometimes we’ll fix them up and sell them to other people looking for great homes in the area, and a lot of other reasons, too – but we love to hear from people like you who are thinking of selling anywhere in FL.

    We’re investors who care a lot about Jacksonville Beach.

    We close fast and pay cash in as little as just 3-5 days. Give us a call now at (904) 606-9163 or fill out the short form over here.

    Sell Your Jacksonville Beach House Fast – Get A Cash Offer Today

  • I’m Relocating And Need To Sell My House In Jacksonville Beach

    selling my Jacksonville Beach house relocationRelocation is a complicated exercise in coordination. We get local Jacksonville Beach home sellers calling us or submitting their house info on this website every week saying “I’m relocating and need to sell my house in Jacksonville Beach“.  The great thing is that we’re able to help a good many of those sellers sell their house quickly (because we’re actively buying houses in Jacksonville Beach FL right now!).

    There’s an insane amount of details to keep together, plus the stress of whatever is making you move in the first place – often it’s a new job or a sick relative, but the true need to move always comes with a dramatic change.

    So how do you make the most out of a difficult situation?

    Don’t Agonize – Organize.

    You don’t want to be in a situation where you end up paying to own and maintain a vacant house for 2 years. That gets expensive and it doesn’t have to be that way.

    Although the market is relatively stable right now in Jacksonville Beach, things can change in the blink of an eye. We’ve heard some serious horror stories over the past couple of decades. Unless you’re filthy rich, you probably can’t afford to wait it out.

    So how do you make the right choices when you’re relocating and need to sell your Jacksonville Beach FL house fast?

    Relocating And Need To Sell My House Fast In Jacksonville Beach… Your Options And Steps

    First…

    1. Find out what your house is worth: To do this you can contact a reputable real estate agent or connect with us and we can give you a no cost no obligation valuation on your property.  Once you know what the house may be able to sell for in the current market… that sets the basis for how long you may or may not be able / willing to sell the house.
    2. Decide how fast you need to sell your house after you relocate: This is a biggie. I’ve seen professionals who moved out of state for a job who had their house on the market for over a year before selling it for a much much lower price than they hoped. Decide how fast you need to sell your house… and how long you’re willing to keep making 2 mortgage payments, insurance payments, etc.
    3. Find a solid real estate agent BEFORE you start packing boxes: Get the ball rolling early so you don’t waste any time. Every month that you wait or every month that it takes to sell the house… costs you money.  Or if you don’t want to use a real estate agent to sell… we are a reputable local house buyer and we’d love to make you a fast-fair all cash offer. Just fill out the form through this link to get started >>
    4. Calculate the value of selling your house fast vs. “waiting it out” for a dream price: We all want to sell our houses for as much as possible. But one thing many people forget to do is come up with the $ amount of how much it costs you to hold onto this house.  The costs involved include the mortgage (which if you’re still within the first 10 years of the mortgage, the majority of your payment interest and not hardly going to principal at all), insurance, taxes, maintenance, etc.Lets say you want to sell your house for $200,000… and your mortgage payment is $1,200/mo, taxes $200/mo, $100/mo for insurance, and $100/mo for maintenance (lawn maintenance, repairs while you’re gone, etc.).Those expenses add up to $1,600/mo in “non equity building” expenses.If it takes you 7 months to sell that house through a real estate agent for that $200,000… it cost you $11,200 in DIRECT “holding costs” + you had to pay $12,000 in real estate agent fees (assuming 3% for the buyers agent and 3% for the sellers agent).Totaling $23,200 in LOST money.  That doesn’t even account for the value of your time, your stress in thinking about that property sitting on the market, the opportunity cost of what you could have been doing with that extra money during those 7 months, etc. So the real cost to you was likely closer to $30,000.But, what if you were to sell your house next week and avoid all of that?Even if you sold for a discount below the retail price (lets say… $175,000)… you’re still ahead of the game by selling the house NOW at a discount to a home buyer like our company vs. 7 months later at full price (and paying holding costs and real estate agent fees).Make sense?
    5. Take action!: Whatever you decide… decide and take action.  If you want to go the real estate agent route, great! Find a reputable local Jacksonville Beach FL agent.  If you’d rather not have to wait and not have to pay real estate agent commissions… then a viable option may be to sell your house to us 🙂

    If you’ve got a lot of time on your side and a really great property, you might want to test the market by offering it out at a high price. There’s a small chance someone might just fall in love and be willing to overpay – people do crazy things for love.

    Most properties are pretty average, in reality. They tend to be like the other houses around them, in the same way that people who live near each other tend to have a lot in common too. So unless your property is truly exceptional, as in magazine-quality extra-special, you won’t capture the most money in the market by pricing at the highest point.

    You can also win by marketing your property for rent and sale at the same time, just to see what happens first. You have to maintain control of the process, which can confuse even seasoned real estate brokers.

    In certain situations, we may partner with property owners to help secure lease option agreements where highly qualified purchasers rent the property for an agreed time before buying.

    In other cases, we may help renegotiate a loan, help make monthly payments or conduct a short sale with a bank.

    We love helping people solve complicated problems.

    Creative solutions can bridge the gap to get you where you need to be.

    Who Is We Buy Any House In Florida And How Can We Help You If You’re Relocating And Need To Sell In Jacksonville Beach?

    We’re investors. We support our families and beautify neighborhoods by buying houses from Jacksonville Beach home owners who need to sell fast for one reason or another.

    The types of sellers who tend to work with us include people who…

    • Need to sell fast (we can close in as little as 7 days if you need us to)
    • Don’t want to hassle with listing a property with an agent
    • Don’t want to pay real estate agent fees
    • Can’t sell their house for one reason or another (we buy houses in as-is condition)
    • … or a variety of other reasons

    But we’re passionate people, and we believe in the Jacksonville Beach community.

    We’re honest and straightforward.

    We’ll quote you a fair price, and we can close fast with cash.

    If you’re prepared to wait and can hire professionals to help, you can manage the sale of your property from a distance. In certain circumstances that risk can pay off.

    We’re happy to help you find answers to your toughest questions about your Jacksonville Beach real estate, so please feel free to call us at (904) 606-9163 and chat with us anytime.