How to Sell Your Home Fast During COVID-19

Selling your home is usually a challenging, stressful and time-consuming project even in the best of times – which means sellers are under even more pressure as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. Maybe you thought the pandemic would be over in a few months and you simply put off selling your home. Maybe you are needing to sell your home quickly to move to a new state and a new job opportunity. Whatever the reason, here’s some advice on how to sell your home in COVID-19. (You can also download our FREE guide on how to sell property fast!)

Go Virtual

The last thing you want is to potentially expose yourself and your family to the virus by hosting open houses and multiple walkthroughs, so take your open house online with a virtual tour. Have a video of your home posted online on various real estate portals and share it with all your contacts, so anyone can tour your home without having to be there in person. It’s easy to do yourself, it’s affordable (all you need is your smartphone or tablet and a video making app!) and it’s easier on you as a homeowner, as it takes a lot of the hassle of cleaning and staging your home every time someone wants to see it.

Target Serious Buyers Only

It sounds a bit counter-productive, but you want to work to eliminate everyone except the most serious buyers. This doesn’t mean putting off potential buyers and delaying the sales process, but rather targeting serous buyers from the start. This can be achieved by:

• Offering a lot of online resources – photographs, 3D and video tours, even Zoom and Skype in person tours that you can run yourself. The more information you can give people about your property, the better they are able to decide if it’s right for them or not. This helps eliminate people who are just curious, who aren’t actually ready to buy, or who aren’t suited to the property.
• Request mortgage pre-approved buyers – One very good sign that someone is serious about buying a home and has the resources to afford your property is if they already have pre-approval for financing in place. You can ask your estate agent to limit in-person viewings to people with pre-approval only.

Take All Necessary Precautions During In-Person Viewings

Unfortunately, if you are selling your house the traditional way, you can minimize in-person viewings, but you can’t eliminate them altogether. No private buyer is going to make such a big decision without seeing the property for themselves.

When having an in-person viewing, you’re going to have to put in place safety precautions to protect yourself, your family and the potential buyer. Have disposable masks at the door and insist everyone wears one throughout the viewing. Take temperatures at the door with an infrared thermometer. Offer hand sanitizer at the door too. Make sure your estate agent understands your concerns and works with you to prepare potential buyers properly for the viewing, so you are all on the same page.

Sanitize Your Space

Take your home hygiene to the next level to protect yourself and potential buyers by sanitizing your space before and after any viewings. You can make this easier by:

• Packing away your belongings – Cleaning is easier when there’s less to clean! And besides, buyers prefer minimal clutter too. Clear countertops in kitchens and bathrooms so that a sanitizing wipe down is simple.
• Prioritize touch surfaces – All surfaces that people are likely to touch, or use should be sanitized, including countertops, doorknobs, light switches and cupboard handles. You can make it a bit easier on yourself by switching on lights beforehand so no one else touches them.

Choose Cash House Buyers in Fort Worth to Sell Your Home Fast

If you want to avoid the whole, lengthy process of cleaning, staging and recleaning your home (not to mention remodeling and repainting), then another option is to sell directly to cash house buyers in Fort Worth.

If you want to want to sell your home quickly, our cash for houses Fort Worth team is happy to buy it for a market-related price – sight unseen and no upgrades needed. It’s completely COVID-safe because we don’t need to visit your house for viewings, and you can sell your house in 24 hours. Here’s how our process works:

• You enter your information on our website
• We’ll contact you directly to discuss an offer for your property (you can also get a free property evaluation from our website)
• You can accept or reject the offer
• You can also call us directly on 469-858-0088

You can also download our FREE eBook for more information on how to sell your house in 24 hours.

Our team is compassionate and highly-motivated to offer you the best possible market-related price for your home, so you can sell your house in 24 hours. Not only does this cash go straight into your bank account as soon as the sale goes through, you also pay zero real estate agent commission. It’s all about making selling your home as fast and as rewarding as possible!

At Shiny Key Properties, our trained consultants have years of experience in helping homeowners to sell quickly. To find out more about our cash for houses Fort Worth service or to speak to our cash house buyers directly, please contact us today and speak to one of our friendly team members.