Even in a seller’s market, it’s smart to look at your options and see what will actually help you best reach your goals with the sale of your McAllen house. While you may be able to get a higher “top line” sales price listing with a local McAllen agent, that doesn’t always translate to more money in your pocket or less headache. Dive into the details below to compare your options. 

• Commissions and Fees: Up to 6%, paid by you, the seller.
• Who Pays Closing Costs: On average, 2% is paid by you, the seller.
• Inspection and Financing Contingency*: Yes, sales can fall through.
• Appraisal Needed: Yes, the sale is often subject to an appraisal.
• Average Days Until Sold: +/- 91 Days
• Number of Showings: It Depends
• Closing Date: 30-60 +/- days after accepting buyers offer
• Who Pays For Repairs: Negotiated During Inspection Period

*An inspection contingency lets the buyer have time to do an inspection and back out of the sale or negotiate a new price if there are repairs that need to be done. If you can’t come to an agreement with the buyer, the buyer has the right to back out of the sale. Similar, a financing contingency gives the buyer the wiggle room to back out of the purchase if they can’t obtain a loan or if the home doesn’t appraise for the value that the bank needs to close the loan.

• Commissions and Fees: NONE
• Who Pays Closing Costs: None; We Pay All Costs
• Inspection and Financing Contingency*: NONE
• Appraisal Needed: None; We Make Cash Offers
• Average Days Until Sold: IMMEDIATE CASH OFFER
• Number of Showings: 1 (Just Us)
• Closing Date: The Date of Your Choice
• Who pays for Repairs? None. We pay for all repairs.

* An inspection contingency lets the buyer have time to do an inspection and back out of the sale or negotiate a new price if there are repairs that need to be done. If you can’t come to an agreement with the buyer, the buyer has the right to back out of the sale. Similar to a financing contingency, a financing contingency gives the buyer the wiggle room to back out of the purchase if they can’t obtain a loan or if the home doesn’t appraise for the value that the bank needs to close the loan.

When you really work the numbers, you start to see the real benefits that each way of selling your Texas house offers.

Yes, here at Homes4Money, we won’t be able to offer you full retail value for your house, but we also offer other benefits that the traditional house sale route can’t offer.

Like…

You can get rid of the headache of that property fast and avoid paying any more utility payments, tax payments, insurance payments, mortgage payments—you get the drill. If you list your house and wait 90+ days to close, you have to figure in all of the costs of holding that property during the time you have it listed and are waiting for it to close.

We don’t care how dirty your house is (we’ve seen worse!) or how many repairs are needed (a complete fixer? great! We love projects. We’d like to make an offer on your house. This saves you time and money that you can keep in your pocket.

Because we are a full-service professional home buyer here in Texas, we make it easy for you. We pay for all of the closing costs. What we offer you is what you get (of course, minus any mortgage payoff or other encumbrances on the property). Pretty refreshing, eh?

So when you add up the time you could save by working with Homes4Money, the no-hassle experience, and the money you’ll save on commissions, fees, and holding costs while you wait to sell the traditional route, for many area homeowners, selling to a professional house buyer is the best viable option.

Is it for you?

Just fill out the short form below or give us a call at (956) 900-1930 , and let’s chat! Our process is simple, and you can close on the date of your choice. You have nothing to lose by getting an offer—no obligations, no pressure. But you could potentially lose thousands of dollars or months of your time by not testing us out and requesting your free house offer below.