The garden I tended behind my rowhouse in Washington, D.C.
How tempting it is when you get an unsolicited offer to sell your home before you put it on the market.
Maybe you’ll have no, or at least a reduced, brokerage fee. There’ll be no open houses that require your preparation and evacuation. And forget about the anxiety of waiting for a buyer to bite, conducting fruitful negotiations and wondering, “What if?”
Don’t do it.
The situation arises more often that you might imagine. Hell, it happened to me when I moved back to Manhattan from Washington, D.C.
But don’t do it.
There is ample for reason for rejecting an early offer or equivocating should one surfaces: Continue reading
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