I will show you both numbers
The retail number and the cash number, side by side, on the same visit. What each path actually costs.
Davis County
Sell your house fast in Kaysville.
Kaysville holds its value, the lots are generous, and the housing is in better shape than most of the county. Which means most of the people who call me from Kaysville should not be selling to me, and I would rather say that early.
What I see in Kaysville
The city where I most often tell people not to sell to me.
A cash offer is priced for speed and for risk. When a house is sound, sits on a good lot, and is in a place buyers actively want, there is very little risk to price in, and the open market is simply going to pay more. That describes a lot of Kaysville.
So the useful thing I can do here is usually not to buy. It is to put the retail number and the cash number next to each other so you can see the size of the gap, and then hand the listing to the agent on my team who does retail full time. Deliberately not to me, because the person telling you what the market will pay should not be the person who might buy it instead.
There are still real exceptions. A probate that has to be closed out, a divorce where nobody wants a sign in the yard, a house that has been empty a while, or a date that will not move. In those cases certainty is the product and the gap is worth it. Everywhere else in Kaysville it usually is not.
When cash still makes sense in Kaysville
- An estate that needs closing out
- A divorce nobody wants advertised
- A house sitting empty and insured badly
- A date set by somebody else
- Land or outbuildings a lender will argue about
- Privacy, simply
The listing does not come to me
It goes to the agent on my team who does retail full time, so the advice and the offer come from different people. That is the point.
Where cash still wins
Estates and empty houses are the common Kaysville exception. Selling an inherited house.
Why Kaysville sellers call
Usually one of these.
- Behind on the mortgage, or a foreclosure date approaching
- A divorce that has to be settled
- An inherited house, or a death in the family
- Repairs that have got past what you can fund or manage
- A rental with tenants who have become the problem
- A job moving you out of state on short notice
- Needing to sell now but move later
- Simply wanting to know what it is worth before deciding anything
Nearby
Also buying across Davis County.
I also buy in Clinton, Fruit Heights, Sunset, West Point and the rest of Davis County. There is no page for every town, so if yours is not listed, call anyway.
Kaysville questions
Answered plainly.
Why would a cash buyer tell me not to sell to him?
Because I am a licensed agent as well as a buyer, so I get paid either way and I would rather be right than push you. In Kaysville the open market usually wins.
What if I want the speed anyway?
Then you can have it, once you have seen both numbers and decided the gap is worth it. What I object to is you not being shown the gap.
Would I get more listing it on the open market?
Often, yes, if the house is in reasonable shape and you have the time. I am a licensed agent with Omada Real Estate, so listing is a real option I can put in front of you, not one I have to talk you out of. I do not do the listing myself. An agent on my team does that full time, so the person pricing your house for the open market is not the person who might buy it. The comparison is here.
What does it cost me to get a number?
Nothing, and there is no obligation to accept it. I walk the property, then put the options in writing. The full process.
See both numbers before you decide anything.
Send the address and I will come and look at it.