Life Situations

Most houses are not sold because the market looked good. They are sold because something changed — a divorce, a job in another state, a diagnosis, a parent who can no longer manage stairs. These guides deal with the situations where the house is the complicated part of something already difficult, and where the timeline is set by circumstances rather than choice.

The common thread is that certainty tends to matter more than the last few thousand dollars. When a sale has to complete by a particular date, the risk worth managing is a buyer whose financing collapses in week six, not the offer that was slightly lower on paper.