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by Dan Heskett, Dan

Dallas houses have a great future ahead of them due to the boom times the Dallas economy is facing at the moment. Some say the crime rate in Dallas is pretty high, but that actually depends on where your home might be. If your home were in one of these suburbs of Dallas – Keller, Colleyville, Coppell, Lewisville, South Lake, Las Colinas, Carrollton, The Colony, Highland Park, University Park, Frisco, Allen, and Plano (among many others) – you will find that the crime rate is actually much lower here than the US-wide average.

You may be doubtful anyway and ask: is my home good enough for other people to buy? Well, the answer to that is: it depends what you are asking for it, for the condition it is in right now. There are realtors who are choosy about the Dallas homes they buy but there are also some who will buy Dallas houses that are in any state or condition (meaning, even the most dilapidated ones can be sold nowadays.) But be reasonable – you cannot expect a dilapidated and ugly home to command the same market price as a well-kept and beautifully-designed home. That would be like saying an ugly and run-down car is sold at the same price as top-of-the-line advanced and new car models. It just isn't realistic.

What would be realistic is if you were to take stock of your Dallas home and look into the following factors that may influence its sale price:

1.What was the original price at which you bought your home, or had it constructed for? This gives you a baseline from which you shouldn't budge when given offers by potential buyers – unless, your home is pretty run-down and has been neglected (in which case, you should factor in the depreciation of the market price so that you come up with a fair price to offer buyers.)

2.How well-kept is your home? And the follow-up question to that is: how neglected has it been? If your home is a well-loved piece of property that you constantly attend to (fixing a door hinge on one weekend, painting the walls of a room the next weekend), then the odds are great that you can get a very good price for your home when you sell it. If however your home has peeling paint on its external and internal walls, door hinges have come loose so that the doors are askew, and the wood is warped on certain floors and walls, then the odds of getting a great price go down considerably naturally.

3.How long have you lived in your home? And how old is it? This is also crucial because the older your home is, the more wear and tear it has probably undergone. Wear and tear on real estate is one reason why some landlords refuse to admit couples with young children who are known to write on walls and be rather harsh with using furnishings (like banging doors so that doorknobs are wrecked for instance.) The age of your home can be mitigated though by how well kept the house is at the time you put it on the market.

Having taken these factors into consideration, you are now ready to start canvassing market prices for the area you are in. You can examine the daily paper for news about real estate in your location, or go online and look through industry newsletters and maybe even online forums for that information. The more well-informed you are, the better is your chance of coming up with a competitive price that buyers will be interested in later on.

You will be pleasantly surprised that your very ugly, ill-maintained, and generally unattractive home can easily be sold for quick cash to the right investor ? an investor who will tell you "we buy houses in any condition". That's right ? there are actually investors nowadays who will buy any type of house, even those that would usually be rejected by conventional investors. This proves to be a great opportunity for people who want to get rid of their home (without resorting to arson to pick up some quick insurance money.) After all, no investor will say "we buy houses that are insurance risks" but you get the idea.
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What types of houses would qualify for such a deal? Investors who specialize in buying such homes would tell you: "we buy houses that are considered too ugly to be sold" (perhaps because the original architect favored an outlandish or too trendy design for the home; or the present homeowner was overconfident about his home refurbishment skills and botched up the project); or which have not been adequately maintained; or do not have a market for them presently because buyers seem to favor other architectural styles for their future home. Whichever of these makes your investor eagerly approach you saying: "we buy houses!", then that is a good motivation to sell your home.
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There are also many reasons why people want to sell their ugly and ill-maintained homes. One reason could be that they are just plain tired of the place and would like to live somewhere else. Another reason could be that they do not have enough money to make the place look better, so they would prefer to just sell it. Perhaps the homeowners are facing retirement so they need a home that requires less maintenance ? for example, perhaps they will sell their family-style home and use the proceeds of the sale to buy a small comfy condominium unit that would suit their less demanding lifestyle. Others may just plain recognize a good deal like this when they see it and want to take advantage of the opportunity. Whichever of these is applicable to you, rest assured that there are investors who will really make you a cash offer for your less-than-desirable home because "we buy houses in any condition" is their mantra.
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The investors have the necessary funding to be able to turn your Cinderella home into a livable and comfortable home that other people will want to make their own. The investor will invest into renovating your dilapidated residence, then compute how much the sale price would then need to be so that he can, in turn, sell the now-attractive home to buyers who can also spot a good deal when they see it. The advantage for such buyers is that the investor may offer a more affordable price for them, considering the house or real estate property has been lived in before. So for people who do not mind buying second-hand houses, condominium units, and real estate properties of any sort, this is the right kind of transaction for them to enter into.
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When we say real estate properties, this does not by any means exclude raw pieces of land. On the contrary, land that does not have any properties standing on them are actually gold mines waiting for the right prospector to tap into their potential value. When the investor says "we buy houses of any kind", that is also inclusive of raw land. So do not hesitate to approach investors who can pay you cash money for your real estate properties, particularly if you have very compelling needs.

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