In this video is about a something new to the real estate industry, and that is what we’re calling iBuyers, or direct buyers. There’s a couple of companies that are called Open Door and the other is called Offer Pad.
You probably heard them advertise a lot. I mean, they’re spending a lot of money right now. But basically they wanna buy your house. Part of their advertising pitch is that they wanna make the transaction as painless as possible. If you’re just looking to sell, call them and they’ll get you a written offer within 24 to 48 hours.
And you can pick what day you want to close and they’ll just buy your house. You don’t have to deal with realtors or commissions or getting your house ready or doing repairs showing your house to strangers. It’s a painless process, so by making it painless you can sell your house to them.
Open Door Reviews: Do the Fees Make Sense
However, there’s always a but, but they’re gonna give you a significantly less amount than a true market price for your home if you were to sell it on the MLS using a Realtor.
So there’s definitely some disadvantages, which is how much it is that you’re going to get for your house. So as a seller, you really need to decide, is it worth it or not?
What kind of property do you have? Does it would make sense to just make it easy and sell it to them, or what’s your situation? So that’s really up to you to decide.
Generally Open Door is looking for more like cookie cutter type of houses in the suburbs. $250,000 – $300,000 price point, and their goal is to put it back on the market and sell it. And make a little bit of a profit, or they’ll sell it to one of their investors. They have hedge fund investors that do long term rentals.
Open Door does a lot of transactions and make very little profit margins, but they do a lot of transactions.
Do The Math
So let’s say you have a house for $250,000. So if you call them, they’re gonna write you an offer, you’ll probably get it for about $25,000 less than the market price. Because hey, they need make their money, and then they need factor in some profit in there and for their risk. They’re also gonna charge fees. This is what they don’t really tell you on their ads, that they’re gonna charge you anywhere between a 6% and an 8% transaction fee.
So at $250,000, let’s just say it’s 8%. That’s $20,000. So plus the 25,000, you’re gonna be looking at a total of let’s say $45,000 in fees.
So your net may be 205,000. And then you’re still gonna have to place pay some of your own closing costs and title fees as well. So it could be close to 200,000.
But ultimately you really need to consider all of this before it, you sign a contract and sell your house. It’s important to consider if you are happy with that net amount of money or should I try to sell it with a realtor first.
I do have personal experience with them, and this scenario, is exactly what I’ve seen. Hopefully this has been helpful.