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Appraised Value, Market Value and What a Buyer Will Pay

Appraised Value, Market Value and What a Buyer Will Pay Three numbers get called the value of your house and they are not the same thing. Confusing them is behind most of the frustration sellers feel when an offer arrives. The first is the county appraisal district's assessed value, which exists to calculate property tax. Texas is a non-disclosure state, meaning sale prices are not public record, so appraisal districts estimate from the data they can get. That figure is

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What an Unpermitted Addition Does to a Home Sale

Selling a House With Work That Was Never Inspected Converted garages, enclosed patios, added bathrooms, a second structure out back. Plenty of Texas houses carry work that was done without a permit, sometimes decades ago by an owner who has long since moved on. It becomes your problem at closing. The first issue is simple arithmetic. If a bedroom was added without permits, it likely does not appear in the county records or the tax roll. An appraiser measuring t

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Selling a House When You Relocate for Work

Selling a House When You Relocate for Work A job relocation turns a house sale into a scheduling problem. The start date is fixed, the move is fixed, and the house is the one variable that refuses to cooperate. Most of the bad outcomes here come from treating it as a pricing question when it is really a timing question. Work out your actual deadline first. Not the start date — the date after which carrying two housing costs becomes painful. If the new city requires a dep

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Moving for a Job and Still Owning the House

Selling a House When You Relocate for Work A job relocation turns a house sale into a scheduling problem. The start date is fixed, the move is https://www.soundhomebuying.com/cities/humble fixed, and the house is the one variable that refuses to cooperate. Most of the bad outcomes here come from treating it as a pricing question when it is really a timing question. Work out your actual deadline first. Not the start date — the date after which carrying two housing

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Selling a House With Work That Was Never Inspected

Selling a House With Work That Was Never Inspected Converted garages, enclosed patios, added bathrooms, a second structure out back. Plenty of Texas houses carry work that was done without a permit, sometimes decades ago by an owner who has long since moved on. It becomes your problem at closing. The first issue is simple arithmetic. If a bedroom was added without permits, it likely does not appear in the county records or the tax roll. An appraiser measuring the house w

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