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Can I Sell My House With an Open Insurance Claim in

Can I Sell My House with a Pending Insurance Claim

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A blue tarp changes the math on a house fast. Your adjuster still hasn’t written a final number. The contractor quit returning calls, and a new job three states away starts in six weeks. You can usually sell your house with a pending insurance claim, although disclosure rules vary by state. Where people lose real … Continued
Realtor Fees for Selling a House in Washington

How Much Do Realtors Charge to Sell a House in Washington

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A seller in Renton once told me she had her number figured out. List at market, pay the agent, keep the rest. Then the closing statement showed up, and the “rest” was about $45,000 thinner than the math she’d done at her kitchen table. She wasn’t bad at math. She just didn’t know that commission … Continued
Who Pays Real Estate Agent Fees in Oregon

Who Really Pays Real Estate Agent Commissions in Oregon

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A seller in Gresham once asked me who pays real estate agents in Oregon. Did the commission come out of her pocket or the buyer’s? Good question, and the honest answer shifted in 2024. Plenty of Oregon homeowners still carry the old version around. Money changes hands at closing through an escrow company. Who agrees … Continued
What Is the Difference Between a Title and a Deed in

The Difference Between a Title and a Deed

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A seller once slid a folder across her kitchen table and said, “Here’s my title.” It was her deed. She’d kept it in a fireproof box for twenty-two years, sure that paper proved the house was hers. She was close. After enough closings, I’ve learned the small gap between those two words decides how smoothly … Continued
Can My Ex Sell Our House Without My Approval in Oregon

Can My Ex Sell Our House in Oregon Without My Approval

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A deed is a one-page document, and it outranks every argument you’ve had since the breakup. Whether your ex can sell the house out from under you in Oregon without your approval comes down to two things. One is the exact wording on that deed. The other is whether a divorce case has been filed … Continued
How to Remove Your House From the Market In Washington

How to Take Your House Off the Market in Washington

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A listing can sit quietly for six weeks, and then on a Thursday morning the seller looks at the calendar, looks at the yard sign, and decides they’re done. Maybe a job offer in Vancouver fell apart, or a tenant finally caught up on rent. Sometimes a parent got sicker, or a marriage got patched … Continued
Should I Sell My House and Rent an Apartment

Should You Sell Your House and Downsize to an Apartment?

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The gutters need clearing in October. The furnace groans through January, and the lawn wants mowing before company shows up Saturday. For years, that rhythm feels like ownership, and then one season it starts to feel like a second job. The real question is whether the house still fits the life you’re actually living, and … Continued
What Are My Next Steps If I Can’t Sell My House

Can’t Sell Your House? Proven Options to Get It Sold Fast

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Nearly a third of the listings in the Portland metro have already dropped their asking price. Realtor.com’s September 2026 report put the share at 31.6%, the third highest among the country’s 50 largest metros. That isn’t a broken market. It’s a market that quit paying for wishful pricing, and plenty of good houses got caught … Continued
For Sale by Owner Earnest Money Guidelines

How FSBO Earnest Money Works

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A check handed across a kitchen table. No escrow instructions, no receipt, two people trusting each other completely. Plenty of for-sale-by-owner sales start exactly that way, and it’s how a few of them fall apart. FSBO earnest money is simple enough on its own. Where homeowners get hurt is the handoff, because selling without an … Continued
How to Sell a House As-Is Without an Inspection in Washington

Can You Sell a House As-is Without an Inspection in Washington

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Two identical split-levels, one in Vancouver and one in Seattle, can carry the same failing roof and completely different math. One seller writes the check, fixes it, and earns that money back at closing. The other never will. I’ve spent years buying houses as-is across Washington, whatever shape they’re in, and homeowners ask me the … Continued
Selling a House That Needs Reparing Washington

How to Sell a House That Needs Repairs in Washington

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The furnace quit in February. That blue tarp on the roof has ridden out two winters. Somewhere in your head sits a number for what fixing all of it would cost, and it grows the longer you sit with it. I buy houses in Washington for a living, and close to half the ones I … Continued
Selling Property With Septic Tank Problems in Oregon

Selling a House With Septic Tank Problems in Oregon

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A failing drainfield picks its moment. It waits for the wettest stretch of February, then pushes gray water up through the lawn about ten feet from the back door. If that’s your yard and you were planning to list this spring, you’ve got decisions ahead. Selling a house with septic tank problems in Oregon comes … Continued
How to Find an Out-of-State Realtor In Oregon

How to Find a Realtor in Another State Before You Move

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I buy houses for a living, so I sit across from people in the middle of this all the time. The sellers who come through it well share one habit. They treat the search for a realtor in another state as a hiring decision, with references and follow-up questions, not a ten-minute web search. That’s … Continued
Cheapest Place to Live Oregon

Cheapest Places to Live in Oregon

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Drive south from Bend on Highway 97 for about two and a half hours, and the price of a house falls by more than half. The cheapest places to live in Oregon are mostly out here, east and south of the I-5 corridor. Bend closed at a $733,000 median over the three months ending July … Continued