The Woodlands Real Estate Investors Will Buy Your House Fast, for Cash, and in Any Condition!

It takes from three to six months to sell a house in Texas, on average. But averages don’t necessarily apply to your property. Your location and the condition of your home can affect the time it takes to find a buyer.

Our sellers have their house transactions completed in 3 to 30 days. We move quickly, and you can have your house sold to us in an average of one and a half weeks—regardless of condition or location.

If you don’t want to hire a real estate agent to sell your house, you have two other options.

You can sell it yourself, which means doing all the work yourself. Or you can sell it to a company that buys houses for cash.

In most cases, selling the house yourself will make you the most money. But before you put it on the market, know what you are getting into. In a FSBO (For Sale by Owner) sale you must:

• Decide what issues with the house need to be fixed before showing.
• Hire someone to make those repairs.
• Set a realistic asking price that will entice a buyer without selling you short.
• Make the house appealing both inside and out.
• Market the house.
• Meet with potential buyers.
• Negotiate a final price with a buyer.
• Take care of any legal issues.
• Handle the paperwork

If all that work isn’t appealing, sell your property quickly to an experienced real estate investor.

Selling to us is almost effortless. We factor all of the expenses associated with the property into our cash offer. You have virtually no paperwork to complete. And once you accept our cash offer, you will typically have your money within a few days.

A quick online search using a phrase like, “we buy ugly houses in The Woodlands, Texas” will give you a list of real estate investors. To help you eliminate any fraudulent investors, be advised of a few of their tricks.

Fraudulent investors will entice you with a “possible” proposal that’s much higher than you expected. But after discounting your house for various problems, their final offer will be much lower. Some investors can even convince you that by accepting their offer they are doing you a favor.

Foreign buyers might offer to pay cash for your home, “sight unseen.” But if they start asking for personal information or a “good faith” deposit, you are being scammed.

Some scammers will visit your property multiple times and confuse you with small contract changes that do not reflect the original terms.

An old house can have other problems besides costly repairs:

• It can be located in a neighborhood that’s known as a high-crime area.
• The next-door neighbors might cause problems—loud music, barking dogs, etc.

The house may have multiple liens against it.

Costly repairs can be fixed, and the liens can be settled. And maybe the bad neighbors will be on their good behavior for a while. But if it’s in a rough neighborhood, a realtor might still be reluctant to sell it. You can try to sell it yourself, but that’s going to be the hard way, for sure.

Sell it the easy way. Sell it to us AS IS. When you sign the contract with us, you are done with the house and all its problems.

Selling a fixer-upper has some significant challenges:

• A home inspection must be ordered to find any problems you might not know about.
• The cost of fixing those problems has to be factored into your asking price.
• For a clear title, any legal issues with the house must be settled.
• The home must be advertised.
• You must organize showings.
• You must disclose the problems with the property to potential buyers, and negotiate with them until you get an acceptable offer.
• Disclosure documents must be prepared and signed with the buyer.
  
  

Real estate agents don’t like to list fixer-uppers. A house in poor condition won’t bring much money, which reduces the realtor’s commission. And buyers don’t want homes with a long list of repairs.

If your house is in poor condition and you don’t want to fix it, you have to sell it AS IS. While selling AS IS may save you the expense of costly repairs, it won’t save you any time. You must:

• Have the home inspected for any problems of which you’re not aware.
• Get estimates for fixing those problems.
• Determine how much money it would take to settle any liens, if any.
• Adjust your asking price accordingly.
• Prepare disclosure statements for potential buyers, according to Texas law.
• Market the house.
• Show the house.
• Negotiate with any interested buyers.

You could try to find a realtor willing to list a fixer-upper. And if you do find one, don’t expect them to work very hard at selling your house. Distressed houses don’t bring much money, which means a lower commission for the realtor. Plus, buyers for fixer-uppers are scarce, because the majority of buyers want a house without serious problems.

Call us and save yourself a lot of trouble. When we buy your house, we assume all the responsibility for all of the problems. We buy it AS IS, and you don’t have to do anything other than to wait a few days for your money.

But all of this hassle can be avoided when you sell to us. We buy the house with all of its problems. Because we buy AS IS, you don’t need to do anything on any list.

Sometimes a seller needs to get rid of their house quickly, due to a family emergency or a job relocation, for example. The home may be move-in ready. Our cash offer for such a house will be higher than it would be for a similar house in poor condition.

We also buy houses that will eventually be torn down for the land they sit on. Every situation is different.

A real estate investor works with estimated costs when developing their cash offer. For instance, an investor typically starts with what they think the property will bring when resold. Their offer is based on resale value minus the expected expenses, their overhead, and profit.

When you need to sell your house quickly because of an urgent situation, don’t be discouraged if the real estate market is slow. You can do several things to speed up the sale:

• Complete any repairs or alterations that will make the house appeal to the average buyer.
• Stage the house.
• Check out competing houses and make sure yours is priced lower.
• Advertise as much as possible with professional quality photography and copy, both online and offline.
  
  

But these tips (and others you might find) don’t guarantee a sale. If you have to sell your property quickly, we will buy it no matter how slow the houses are selling in your area.

If your house has a lien against it, see if you can negotiate a repayment plan with the lien holder. Show good faith by paying off some of the debt upfront, and they might remove the lien from the title.

If that doesn’t work, you might be able to convince a potential buyer to take the lien with the house. But this option probably won’t work if the buyer needs financing. Lenders want a clear title on their collateral.

The only other option (which is the easiest option) is to sell the house to a cash home buyer like us. After you accept our offer, we do all the negotiating to settle the debt. And you get cash at closing.

Selling a vacant home is not as easy as selling a home that is nicely furnished and decorated. It’s hard for the average buyer to picture themselves living in an empty house.

If your house is vacant there are a few things you can do to speed up the sale:

• Enlist a trusted friend or family member who is willing to supervise the sale (if you have moved a long distance from The Woodlands).
• Fix any issues with the house that would deter the average buyer.
• Consider hiring a professional staging company to add appeal to the interior.
  
  

If you are unwilling or unable to take any measures that would help the sale of your vacant home, contact We Buy The Woodlands Houses. We don’t care whether the house is occupied or vacant. We will make an offer. And when you accept it, that empty house is in your past.

Cash house buyers buy property from people who have an urgent need to sell their home. We also buy houses with the most serious possible problems that the homeowner can’t fix because of the lack of money or because they just don’t have time for it.

When a homeowner contacts us, we take a look at the property and make an offer within 24 hours. We buy houses in any condition—quickly and with cash. Our cash offer includes all of the expenses we expect to incur, and our potential interest for reselling the house.