I’m Relocating And Need To Sell My House In New Orleans

Relocation is a complicated exercise in coordination. We get local New Orleans home sellers calling us or submitting their house info on this website every week saying, “I’m relocating and need to sell my house in New Orleans… FAST“.  We can help many sellers sell their houses quickly because we are actively buying houses in New Orleans, LA right now!

Moving involves managing numerous details and significant stress, often driven by major life changes like a new job or caring for a sick relative.

So how do you make the most out of a difficult situation?

Don’t Agonize – Organize.

You don’t want to pay to own and maintain a vacant house for two years. This situation can be costly, but it doesn’t have to be.

Although the market is relatively stable right now in New Orleans, things can change in the blink of an eye. We’ve heard some serious horror stories over the past couple of decades. Unless you’re filthy rich, you probably can’t afford to wait it out.

So how do you make the right choices when you’re relocating and need to sell your New Orleans LA house fast?

“Relocating and Need to Sell My House Fast in New Orleans…”:
Your Options And Steps

First…

1. Find out what your house is worth: You can contact a reputable real estate agent or connect with us for a no-cost, no-obligation valuation of your property. Once you know the potential selling price of your house in the current market, it will help you determine how long you are willing or able to sell it.
2. Decide how fast you need to sell your house after you relocate: This is a biggie. We’ve seen professionals who relocated for a job struggle to sell their houses, often having them on the market for over a year before ultimately selling for a significantly lower price than they initially hoped for. It’s important to determine how quickly you need to sell your house and consider how long you’re willing to manage two mortgage payments, insurance costs, and other expenses.
3. Find a solid real estate agent BEFORE you start packing boxes: Start the process early to avoid wasting time. Each month you wait to sell your house can cost you money. If you prefer not to work with a real estate agent, we are a reputable local house buyer, and we would be happy to make you a fast, fair, all-cash offer. Just fill out the form through this link to get started >>
4. Calculate the value of selling your house fast vs “waiting it out” for a dream price: We all want to sell our houses for as much as possible. But one thing many people forget to do is come up with the $ amount of how much it costs you to hold onto this house.  
   
   The costs involved include the mortgage ( if you’re still within the first 10 years of the mortgage, the majority of your payment is interest and not going to the principal at all), insurance, taxes, maintenance, etc. Lets say you want to sell your house for $200,000… and your mortgage payment is $1,200/mo, taxes $200/mo, $100/mo for insurance, and $100/mo for maintenance (lawn maintenance, repairs while you’re gone, etc.).Those expenses add up to $1,600/mo in “non-equity building” expenses.
   
   If it takes you 7 months to sell that house through a real estate agent for that $200,000… it cost you $11,200 in DIRECT “holding costs” + you had to pay $12,000 in real estate agent fees (assuming 3% for the buyers agent and 3% for the sellers agent). Totaling $23,200 in LOST money.  That doesn’t even account for the value of your time, your stress in thinking about that property sitting on the market, the opportunity cost of what you could have been doing with that extra money during those 7 months, etc. So the real cost to you was likely closer to $30,000.
   
   What if you could sell your house next week and avoid all the hassle? Even if you sold for a discount below the retail price (let’s say $175,000), you’re still ahead of the game by selling the house NOW at a discount to a home buyer like Abbott Price vs. seven months later at full price (and paying holding costs and real estate agent fees.)
5. Take action! Whatever you decide, decide and take action.  If you want to go the real estate agent route, great! Find a reputable local New Orleans LA agent.  If you’d rather not have to wait and not have to pay real estate agent commissions, then a viable option may be to sell your house to us. 🙂