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Most estates end the same way: the contents are sold or cleared, and then the empty house goes on the market. Families usually run those as two separate projects with two separate searches and two separate timelines. We run them as one plan, because that is what protects both the price of the contents and the price of the house.
Use our referral and save 1% on the listing commission when our real estate team sells the estate home. On a $300,000 home that is $3,000 the estate keeps, simply for not running the two halves of the job as separate projects with separate strangers.
Offer applies when Top Agent Realty lists the estate home for a family working with Estate Sale Advisors. Commissions are negotiable and not set by law.
Executors need a number for the house anyway, for the family and often for the probate paperwork. We provide a real market valuation of the estate home free, before any decision is made, so every option is weighed against evidence instead of a guess.
The estate sale empties the home, the cleanout finishes the job, and an empty, clean house photographs better, shows better, and appraises better. Sequenced as one plan, nothing waits on anything else and the house hits the market at its best.
Some estates want top dollar on the open market. Some need a fast, as-is sale with a quick close. We put both numbers in front of the family side by side, and our real estate team executes whichever path the estate chooses.
It is the fork every estate reaches, and the honest answer is that it depends on the house and the family's timeline. The open market brings the full price and takes weeks. A cash sale closes in days and costs a real discount. The mistake families make is choosing before seeing both numbers for their specific house. We show both, free, and the estate decides.
Two guides cover the decision in depth: Sell as-is or fix it up and list and the four options for an inherited house.
Because the alternative is hiring an estate sale company, then a cleanout crew, then interviewing real estate agents, each one starting from zero on a house the last one already knows. By the time the home is ready to list, we have been in it, we know its condition, and we know the family's timeline. Nothing gets re-explained and nothing falls between the two halves of the job.
Real estate brokerage services are provided by Top Agent Realty in Troy, serving all of Oakland, Wayne, and Macomb County.
Start with the free valuation. It commits you to nothing, it answers the question every heir is quietly asking, it locks in the 1% listing commission saving if the estate later decides to sell, and it makes every later decision easier. Fill out the form or call (800) 294-9218.
Tell us about the home and we will come back with a real market valuation and, if you want it, a written as-is cash figure to compare against. No cost, no obligation, and the estate sale side can be matched in the same conversation.
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Tell us about the home and we will put two or three vetted companies in front of you, usually within one business day.