Selling around a relocation or a downsize

• You choose the closing dateRoughly 7 days to 90+ days out
• Rent-back after closingAvailable — ask when we make the offer
• ShowingsNone
• Risk of buyer financing falling throughNone — no lender involved
• What you leave behindAnything you do not want to move

The real cost of an uncertain closing

Sellers compare a cash offer to a list price and conclude the cash offer is lower. That comparison leaves out everything a listing actually costs: two to three months of mortgage, taxes, insurance and utilities while it sits; the prep and repairs you do to get competitive offers; the agent commission at the end; and the genuine possibility that the escrow falls apart on the buyer's loan and you start over having already committed to a lease or a purchase in the new city.

Price it out for your own house. Sometimes the listing still wins clearly, and when it does we will say so. But the gap is usually much narrower than the headline numbers suggest, and if you are relocating, a date you can actually build a life around has real value that never appears in the comparison.

Downsizing is the same problem wearing a different hat

Moving into a smaller place, a community, or in with family creates the same timing squeeze plus one extra difficulty: forty years of belongings and a limited number of days to deal with them. Our answer is the same as it is for estates — take what you want and leave the rest. Furniture, appliances, the workshop, the boxes in the attic. We clear it, and it is already in the number.

Rent-back, if you need to stay a while

If your new place is not ready, we can often close on schedule and let you stay in the house for a period afterward under a written rent-back agreement. That converts a stressful two-move relocation into one move on a date you picked. Raise it while we are making the offer rather than after — it is much easier to build in than to add later.

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