Selling Your Home During a Divorce in Northwest Indiana

Selling a house when divorcing is one of the hardest parts of the divorce process. The Quadwalls Real Estate Team has experience with divorce sales in Northwest Indiana. We have even developed a specific strategy for selling your home in a divorce. Our low real estate commission fees will save you money, too.

What Is Quadwalls.com and the Quadwalls Real Estate Team?

We are a team of Northwest Indiana REALTORS® led by Chuck Vander Stelt, one of the top real estate agents in Northwest Indiana. Our website Quadwalls.com helps homebuyers and sellers save money and make better decisions.

Our Northwest Indiana REALTORS® are seasoned professionals. Our annual NWI home sales total over $20,000,000. We have sold every type of home in Northwest Indiana and successfully sold many homes for clients selling a house when divorcing.

Quadwalls Real Estate Team Divorce Home Selling Strategy

We have developed a specific divorce home selling strategy. This is based on our experience of what most divorcing clients want and what we know about how to get that. Most homeowners who are selling a home during a divorce benefit from the following:

• A relatively quick and easy sale
• Avoiding making repairs
• Post-closing possession for several days after the sale closes
• The best price from the market

We take specific steps we take to get you what you want and need from the home sale.

1. Be Proactive With Answers to Everything (or Almost Everything)

The first element of our divorce house sale strategy is collecting answers to all the questions commonly asked by homebuyers. To do this we suggest:

• Thorough, accurate specifications of the home are collected
• Encourage a pre-listing inspection
• Recommend a septic inspection and water quality test if applicable
• Clear illustration of lot lines
• Upfront documentation about upgrades, maintenance, or major repairs or replacements
• Make HOA or POA documents available

Why would we do this? This speeds things up by getting homebuyers to decide to write an offer or not more quickly. Also, offers are likely to have fewer contingencies.

2.  Accurately Price Your Home to Sell

When there is a divorce and selling the house fast and for top dollar is important, list the home at a reasonable price on the first day. The number one factor affecting how quickly a home sells is its price. Additionally, data from Northwest Indiana home sales illustrates quicker sales result in higher prices.

Why would we do this? Create interest and competition by offering active homebuyers a quality home at a fair and reasonable price.

3.  Early, Enhanced Exposure

We like to expose the home to the market early when our clients are selling the house during a divorce. This includes:

• Coming Soon Early Placement in the GNIAR NW Indiana MLS – Coming soon status will get your home in front of real estate agents. They can begin contacting clients and getting those active homebuyers anticipated to see your home.
• List Day – We recommend listing on Wednesday or Thursday just ahead of the weekend and when home search activity peaks each week.
• Open House – Hold an open house the first weekend making the home available to all homebuyers. We do understand some clients do not want an open house, so we will not do one if that is what you want.

Why would we do this? The early exposure builds anticipation and creates urgency among homebuyers.

Quadwalls Real Estate Team Commission Fees

Every dollar can count when selling a house during divorce. You will save money with our real estate commission fees. Below is a chart with the real estate commission we charge.

Higher priced homes pay a lower real estate commission fee. It doesn’t take a meaningful amount more work to sell a $600,000 home vs. a $200,000 home, so the owners of the higher priced home should pay a lower rate.

FAQ About Our Real Estate Commission Fees

Is the buyer’s agent commission included? Yes, the buyer’s agent commission included.

Is this a full feature listing? Yes, we offer an all-inclusive, full-feature listing. More on everything included is below.

How Are Your Fees So Low?

Corporate America has trained us to believe something must be expensive to be good. You can forget that because it simply isn’t true.

We want to offer lower fees. We deliberately pursued how we could charge clients low fees while remaining profitable and offering an all-inclusive listing service in Northwest Indiana. Here’s how we do it:

• Lowering Costs – Chuck keeps a sharp eye on what every vendor charges his business
• Overhead – Overhead is kept at its minimum needed.
• Volume – The more homes we sell the less we need per home to cover our fixed costs.
• Outstanding Marketing Skills – Better marketing skills lowers both our client acquisition costs and the costs to get your home sold.

Our Listing Service Is All-Inclusive

Our divorce house sale listing service is an all-inclusive listing including the following:

• Free, no obligation pre-listing consultation
• High quality photos and video tour
• Placement in the GNIAR Northwest Indiana MLS
• Display on real estate websites including Zillow, Trulia, and Realtor.com as well as thousands of other brokerage and real estate agent owned websites
• Installed yard sign (offered, not required in the instance you do not want it or your neighborhood does not allow it)
• Home showing scheduling software
• Feedback collection
• Deep dive weekly marketing reports
• Open houses (offered, but not required)
• Transaction management

We provide end-to-end transaction management to all clients including those selling a house due to a divorce. We will supervise the transaction through to closing and assist with all documents including amendments, inspection response, and appraisals. We will attend closing with you, too.

Our Client Friendly Listing Terms

The Quadwalls Real Estate Team offers some of the most client-friendly home listing terms in Northwest Indiana.

• No Minimum Listing Term – We do not have a minimum amount of time you need to list the home with us. Instead, we will choose a time comfortable to you.
• No Fee, Early Termination Clause – Our listing agreement allows you to terminate the listing contract simply by telling, and there is no fee for early terminations.
• No Upfront Costs – There are no upfront costs for hiring us to sell your home

Experienced Northwest Indiana REALTORS®

With having sold several hundred homes in Northwest Indiana, the Quadwalls Real Estate Team has the experience to get your home sold.  Annually we are selling over $20,000,000 worth of Northwest Indiana real estate.

Divorce Specific Experience

We have helped homeowners selling a house due to divorce. We have successfully sold the home for every divorcing homeowner who has hired us.  Additionally, we understand the sensitivity of the situation and will bring a compassionate, understanding home selling experience to you.

Home Type Experience

We have experience selling every type of home in Northwest Indiana. So, we have probably sold a home like yours. Home types we have sold before include:

• Houses in subdivisions or neighborhoods
• Historical, old homes
• Lakefront homes
• Townhomes, condos, and half-duplexes
• Luxury homes (NWI real estate priced in the top 10%)
• Super luxury homes (NWI real estate price in the top 3%)
• Distressed or damaged homes
• Rural homes and homes on large lots

Our Service Areas in Northwest Indiana

We work throughout Northwest Indiana. Our service area covers Lake, Porter, LaPorte, Newton, Jasper, and Starke Counties. We have sold homes in most of the 60 cities and towns in Northwest Indiana.

Results for Past Clients

The Quadwalls Real Estate Team has a record of selling homes faster and for more per finished square foot compared to other real estate agents in Northwest Indiana.  Our listing service gets results.

Our Customer Service & Reviews from Past Client

We offer an excellent home selling experience. Our promise to you is superb, warm, caring, hospitable, personalized customer service to you.

Our past clients have said great things about us. You can read our past reviews in several places:

• Our Google My Business page
• Our Facebook page
• Our Zillow Premier Agent profile

Key Takeaways

These are the key takeaways that you should know to encourage you to contact us to help you sell your home when selling home during divorce.

• Local – The Quadwalls Real Estate Team is a team of local Northwest Indiana real estate agents led by one of the top agents in Northwest Indiana.
• Low Real Estate Commission Fees – We charge a low real estate commission fee for our all-inclusive home selling services in Northwest Indiana.
• Client Friendly Listing Terms – Home sellers who hire us get client friendly listing terms like no minimum listing term and our no fee, early termination agreement.
• Experience – We have experience with every type of home in Northwest Indiana and have helped homeowners selling due to a divorce.
• Results – Our record illustrates we sell homes faster and for more money compared to all of the real estate agents.

Next Steps

Take the next step and contact us. Simply complete the contact form below. We will respond within 24 hours.

FAQ

How much do I owe you if you do not get my home sold?

Nothing, if our work does not get your home sold you owe us nothing. Our services are on a contingency basis meaning you only pay if your home gets sold.

Can you help me find and buy a home?

Yes, we can help you find and buy a home in Northwest Indiana, too. Homebuyers represent about half of our annual production.