Selling a Fixer-Upper to a Cash Buyer
Most people’s experience with a fixer-upper? Completely overwhelming. The endless repairs. The monster bills. And getting someone through the door who’s eager to buy the place as-is? Does that ever happen for regular sellers? Not usually. Reality check: the market is loaded with buyers who want only turnkey homes. Anyone peddling a project house to traditional buyers winds up disappointed fast. But what’s crazy is that some buyers hunt these messes on purpose. Not regular people, the real cash buyers. These buyers snap up properties others run from. Leaky roofs, busted plumbing, outdated everything, none of that scares them off. All they see is raw potential. Why Cash Buyers Want Fixer-Uppers Most people never get why anyone would jump at a house that looks half-abandoned. What drives experts nuts is how underappreciated this scene is. A regular bank sees a trashed house and runs the other way: loans? Forget about it. But for cash buyers, that’s the whole draw, no banks, no fuss, no dr...