Disadvantages of Selling a House During the Holiday Season

If you’re considering selling your house during the holiday season, a valid question may arise about whether it’s the right time. In this blog post, we’ll discuss four drawbacks associated with selling a house during this festive period. These considerations are relevant to sellers not only in the Belton area but also in surrounding regions.

Various theories abound regarding the optimal time to sell your house. In and around the Belton area, spring often takes the lead, followed by summer and fall as secondary favorable seasons, while winter is considered acceptable. Notably, the holiday season is perceived as potentially the most challenging time to sell.

4 Disadvantages Of Selling A House During The Holiday Season

#1. Selling during the holidays can be disruptive to your holiday plans

During the holidays, you might host extended family dinners or enjoy quiet evenings with your immediate family, sipping hot chocolate and watching a classic Christmas movie on TV. However, if a potential buyer expresses interest in viewing your home, you’re left with no option but to pack up and vacate the premises while the agent showcases your house.

#2. Selling during the holidays can be messy

In regions experiencing heavy snow or rain during this season, the situation can become particularly messy. Potential buyers may inadvertently bring in snow, ice, mud, and dirt from outside as they explore your house, making the cleaning process quite unpleasant.

#3. Selling during the holidays can be cold

When potential buyers tour your home, they are indifferent to your heating expenses. They freely move in and out, leaving doors ajar and even opening windows, all of which you end up covering. Regrettably, there’s little you can do to prevent this.

#4. Selling during the holidays can cause delays

You’re eager to sell, likely with a preference for a swift sale. However, potential buyers operate on their own schedule. In essence, they might anticipate you adjusting your plans for holiday dinners, yet they might not finalize decisions during Christmas. Moreover, even if they do decide, securing financing from their bank becomes a challenge if the bank experiences several days of closure between December 24 and January 1.

These are just 4 disadvantages of selling a house during the holiday season… but there are, in fact, many more. You CAN sell your house during the holiday season but it’s just not very convenient or fast.

Fortunately, there’s another way to sell and that’s how we can help…

Do you want to sell fast? Great news: Click here and fill out the form, or call our office at 512-230-3469, and we’ll get in touch to give you an offer on your house.

Frequently Asked Question
Maybe you have a few questions. That’s okay; most people do. So here’s a quick question people ask us… along with our answers. If you still have a question, don’t hesitate to contact us (or give us a call) and we’ll be happy to answer it for you.

Q: How are you different from a real estate agent?
A: Real estate agents list properties and hope that someone will buy them. The agent shows the properties to prospective buyers and then take a percentage of the sale price if they find a buyer. Oftentimes, the agent’s commission is 3-6% of the sale price of your house (so if it’s a $100,000 house, you’ll pay between $3,000 – $6,000 in commissions to an agent). Agents provide a great service for those that can wait 3-6 months to sell and who don’t mind giving up some of that sale price to pay for the commissions. But that’s where we’re different: We’re not agents, we’re home buyers. Our company actually buys houses. We don’t list houses. Since we’re actually the one buying the house from you, and we pay with all cash… we can make a decision to buy your house within a couple of days (sometimes the same day). Again, we make our living by taking the risk to buy the house with our own cash, repair the house, and market it ourselves to find a buyer (which is the hard part in this market).