I recently sold our old house without a realtor. It's the 5th house I've sold, the first one where I did FSBO, and it was the fastest to close.
If you presented the same people with: I can get you $150k today or I can get you $300k in 45 days, it's pretty ridiculous to suggest that any reasonable person would choose the former. There are plenty of means to get short-term loans of tens of thousands of dollars, as a homeowner, without setting fire to half the value of your largest asset when you're 65 or older.
And it might take longer.
I recently sold our old house without a realtor. It's the 5th house I've sold, the first one where I did FSBO, and it was the fastest to close.
If you presented the same people with: I can get you $150k today or I can get you $300k in 45 days, it's pretty ridiculous to suggest that any reasonable person would choose the former. There are plenty of means to get short-term loans of tens of thousands of dollars, as a homeowner, without setting fire to half the value of your largest asset when you're 65 or older.