BUY MY HOUSE – Desperate Home Owner
A desparate Bristol home owner was seen walking the streets with a sandwich board around his neck saying ''Buy my house! 3 bed Vic – St Andrew's £390/week. No mortgage.' As the UK property market continues to be stagnant homeowners are taking desperate measures to try to sell their home fast.
If you are looking to sell your home fast call Right Home Sales on 0800 0949 123.
September 30, 2011
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To Sell Your Home Fast Fix Any Cracked Walls
Movement beneath a house can leave a property seriously structurally unsound and leaving you unable to sell your home fast or attract anyone to say the magic words ‘we buy your house’. But what should you be weary of and what precautions can you take?
By far the most common risk is to homes built on clay soil, which shrinks and swells with changes in the weather. It’s a problem dramatically on the increase as the UK’s climate slowly changes to a more extreme turn and of major concern if you are looking to sell the house fast.
Most cracks are surface cracks and are only affecting the plaster caused by your home expanding and contracting from the change in temperatures in the day. New homes are often affected my minor cracks caused by the settling of the foundations and new walls but are only a cosmetically affected and can easily be decorated over.
Cracks themselves are not the visible symptom but rather the result of another problem at hand and the type of material it appears on may also give the cause. Cracks in plasterboards are often subject to hairline fractures whereby the plasterboards have been butted up tightly against each other and create a crack to release the pressure but this can easily be solved with a bit of joint plaster.
Cracks in walls or block walls will only be of threat when they are persistently reopening once been repaired. It would be advised to call in an expert to assess the structural well being of timber beams or materials that can possibly corrode.
Most cracks prove to be benign but it is worth monitoring any signs of growth, so recording the first sign of the crack with your digital camera will help you to compare the size of the crack to ensure that it hasn’t grown. Its recommended that you check the crack for any growth at least once every two weeks particularly if you are looking to sell your home fast. A crack will be seen by the surveyor of the people looking to buy my house.
If a crack appears suddenly and progresses rapidly on both the inside and the outside of the building, then this is a sign that the foundations of your home are moving and consulting a chartered surveyor is an immediate action. Get your own experts opinion before the people saying we buy your house get theirs, you need to know yourself what impact it will have on the value of your property.
Watch out for cracks in windows and door frames which may be the symptomatic reason of extra weight being placed on lintels. If at the same time your doors can no longer close, then seek professional advice immediately. This is not as serious for wooden doors and window frames since the can be easily replaced but if you find difficulty in closing doors then there may be an underlying reason.
In extreme cases please do contact the relevant professionally qualified chartered surveyors or structural engineers to correctly assess the level of damage your crack has caused. Tell the surveyor ‘I am looking to sell my home fast and ask him if the cracks will put off the potential buyer who otherwise may buy my house.
September 26, 2011
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Looking to Sell Your Home Fast then Consider Renovating
People asking themselves who will buy my house often start to consider refurbishing their home so that they can sell their home fast. These home sellers may know the need to keep an up keep and improvement on their house but rarely know where to start on deciding what to do to attract home buyers. Deciding which changes may actually devalue their house instead of adding value and helping them to sell house fast is difficult. The second thought that may cross their minds is, ‘How much is this going to cost me?’ and ‘will it help me to sell my home fast?’ or should I just try to find a company who buys houses or even a company who buys ugly houses?
Looking at the changes to your property’s value would be engaging in a project of either redoing the bathroom or putting on a conservatory. These normally range in an increased value of up to 5% more. But unless you’re “DIY Dan”, you may just find that redoing your bathroom yourself or the help of your friend may just end up being a disaster. A poorly done bathroom will not help you to sell your home fast.
Where as a kitchen you can have a higher success rate but I recommend getting a professional to help installing the kitchen units. Tiling a floor of a kitchen floor the first time may be easier than tiling a bathroom wall for the first time. Practice makes perfect, so maybe grabbing a piece of a reasonably sized plaster board and a set of the cheapest tiles that Wickes has to offer and practising laying, grouting and cutting of tiles on the plaster board before tiling the kitchen would be of good use. And with a bit of savvy you could fit all the rest of the bits and bobs. The end result of a sparkly new kitchen, provided you chose colours that kept with the theme of the house and not a Star-Trek movie, will increase your value of 5-10%. If you want to sell your home fast consider instructing someone who knows what they are doing.
The quickest project for your home, that will easily increase your value an extra 10%, is off-road parking. More and more people have cars or simply just would like their guests being able to pull right up to their house and not have to worry about it being parked in the street. This would roughly set you back £75 per sqm but might be a worthwhile investment if it brings you those magic words of a buyer standing their admiring your new off road parking and shouting ‘we buy your house now’.
The two biggest changes you can make to your property is either putting on an extension or just simply upgrading your exterior. An extension to your house can increase anywhere from 10-20% in value but the down side to this, is the hefty bill at the end from the builder. While upgrading the exterior requires a bit of creativity and a bit of hard labour from yourself thus just leaving you the cost of materials bought. Changes to the exterior can include, making sure the garden beds are tidy and the soil turned, painting up the front fence or gate or ensuring everything that has paint on it has had their fair share of touch-ups. Then express your creative side by maybe putting a small water fountain or picnic bench in the garden or placing flowers along side the walkway to the front door, the options are endless but the costs are considerably low and the reward is 15% added value. Remember just the smallest improvements to the exterior could home you to sell your home fast without screaming to the buyers ‘sell my home fast’. It looks like you are proud of your house rather than desperate to sell.
In the end be sensible with what ever you change, remember, that what you may like now might not appeal to most of the buyers that could be interested in buying your house. Don’t start illegal project extensions or changes to your property and ensure all workmanship that is completed is of a high standard. Don’t be a victim of shady builders or electricians. And last but not least. Enjoy the project and crack a big bottle of bubbly when alls done.
When selling to Right Home Sales, there’s no need to renovate your property as we buy any homes, even ugly houses!
September 14, 2011
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Trying to sell your home fast? You are not alone
More than one million home owners are trapped with worry if anybody will ever “buy my house”. Do you keep thinking ‘I need to sell my home fast’, or are you just looking to sell your house fast. A recent report by The Times revealed that in the past year more than a million people have tried to move house but been unsuccessful to attract potential purchasers.
This is a crippling effect for home owners trying to get a quick house sale in order to buy a bigger house for a new arrival into the family or relocating for a new job. Whilst some home owners may need a quick house sell for cash in order to pay for a mortgage they cannot afford during these tough times in the recession.
A recent study by the well known Santander discovered that there had been a double in failed sellers trying to get a buyer. Director of Mortgages at Santander, Phil Cliff, said “Many buyers are unable to secure a good mortgage deal, often because they find it difficult to save a sufficient deposit.”
The research showed that first time buyers on average required 24 percent deposit, which then on an average property price of around £160,000, would then require the buyer to put down a £38,000 deposit, which for most, isn’t a viable situation.
What has emerged is that the number of owners trying to sell is increasing whilst the number of buyers has decrease thus giving the buyer more options to choose from and leaving the home owner wondering how they could “sell their house quick”.
The second part to the conundrum is that the seller would have an enduring wait of more than 9 weeks in order to complete the selling of their house.
Don’t wait for a buyer. Head straight for a QUICK and CASH paid sell with no fees, just cash. Take the step to freedom from the trap of selling your house and contact Right Home Sales Now or fill out our 60 second form and we’ll call you back. We buy houses for CASH. If you want to sell your home fast, call us now and say ‘buy my house’ and we will buy your house.
So if you are looking to sell your home fast just call us, we buy houses.
September 5, 2011
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Sell your home fast our tips
In this current housing market it is more important than ever to make sure that your house appeals to anyone that is looking to buy. Buyers are few and far between. They are now in the driving seat and able to be more choosy about what they buy. They are also more likely to look to ‘haggle’ over the asking price, usually offering a lot less than the Estate Agents valuation of what the property is supposedly worth.
If you decide to sell your house through the traditional route then you will want to follow some of the tips set out below to make sure that your house will appeal to the buyers.
Remember Estate Agents will often give you little warning that you have a potential buyer coming to view the house, so you are best to make sure that the house is always kept in a presentable condition.
1 If budget allows it is still advisable to decorate to ensure that all rooms have a neutral colour – Magnolia, cream or white. Your taste might not be the same as the buyer.
2 Make sure that every room is very tidy with all personal things away including family photos.
3 Clean every room very well.
4 Put all toilet seats down.
5 Make all beds.
6 Put all washing away.
7 Finish the washing up and put all pots away.
8 If possible arrange for any pets to ‘go on holiday’ or stay with friends while your house is on the market.
9 Tidy toys away – your potential purchaser may not have children so don’t present your house as just a family house.
10 Make sure that the garden is tidy, all garden furniture is clean, dead plants removed, toys away, washing away, grass cut, fence in good condition.
11 Remember some buyers may even look inside your cupboards (especially fitted cupboards) so don’t just throw everything in the cupboard and shut the door and hope!
12 Treat every person that arranges to look around your house as the potential purchaser. Even if you think they are only somebody that wants to nosey, you never know they may be the buyer you are looking for.
13 Open all curtains so that the rooms are light and bright.
14 Clean windows, particularly if you have nice views to show off.
15 Keep the carpets vacuumed and put rugs over any marks.
16 Think where you have left the dustbins, does the outside of the house look tidy and presentable.
17 Air the house regularly particularly if you smoke or have pets.
18 Make sure that you don’t fall out with your neighbours, you will have to declare any neighbour disputes to potential purchasers.
19 It is good to place a vase of fresh flowers in the lounge or kitchen.
20 Switch the TV off before people come to look around, you want them to focus on your house not what’s on the TV
At Right Home Sales we will buy your house from you directly, whatever the condition we buy houses as is. We don’t ask you to show anyone around. If you are looking for cash for your property, or a quick house sale contact us today on 0800 0949 123 and ask to speak to Stewart.
July 22, 2011
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