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Real Estate How to sell your metro Phoenix house fast
Buyers can search for homes on Opendoor's app. OPENDOOR
‘iBuyers’ provide shortcut to typical sale Catherine Reagor Columnist Arizona Republic USA TODAY NETWORK
Cleaning your house for a last-minute showing, and then the buyer doesn’t show up. Herding kids and pets out of your home for an open house. Overhearing nasty comments about your countertops from looky loos who aren’t even serious about buying a home. Many people dread opening their homes to would-be buyers. I wouldn't know what to do
with our cats or the laundry room that looks like a second closet since putting away clothes isn't my favorite chore. A few thousand metro Phoenix homeowners opted to forgo the typical sales process last year and sold their houses to Opendoor or OfferPad. The real-estate ÿrms are doing away with some of the worst parts of selling a house and drawing people who want to sell fast with little hassle, in exchange for a lower price.
lars on big renovations and then reselling for hefty proÿts. And not all Valley houses will get o“ ers from the real-estate ÿrms. Homeowners who do get o“ ers typically get them online within 24 hours and can close on their sale in less than a month. Sellers pay the company 6 to 12 percent of their home’s price to avoid having people traipsing through their house and a buyer backing out at the last minute.
How it works
Easy sale
Both Opendoor and O“ erPad make sellers online o“ ers on Valley houses virtually sight unseen, make minor repairs and then resell the houses for a proÿt. These ÿrms aren’t ‘ipper s, buying on the cheap and spending tens of thousands of dol-
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