GETTING THOSE HOUSES SOLD ASAP CAMERON DUNLAP
have been asked a number of times
recently to write on the subject of selling
houses.
The
ease
or
difficulty
we
experience when selling our houses has
everything to do with how and where we
“One of the greatest
challenges you and I will face
is cashing
out of a quirky house”
buy.
In today's market where houses tend to sell
When doing my research on this topic I turned
quickly, you would think that this would not be a
inward and took a hard look at my own market. As
problem. But for some it is. Why?
most of you know I moved last April from South
Florida to Upstate NY. And no, I'm not insane! My
new market was, and to a degree still is, foreign to
me and what is most challenging is selling the
houses. I can buy them all day and at amazing
prices, but selling them is not so simple. So, I must
buy with my exit strategy in mind. You must do this
in your market too.
Let me give you an idea of what my market is like. I
live in Steuben County, which is in the Finger Lakes
and Wine Country region of Western NY. My
market, within a 45-minute drive, consists of about
35,000 households. There are a number of towns
and all but two are quite small. Within this area we