These guides answer the questions Washington home sellers ask most about selling a house in Washington, from closing costs and the slowest months to probate, tenants and houses that need work. Each one goes out under Jason Bryant's name after he approves it, every number has a public source, and a new guide goes up each week.
Each guide answers one question sellers ask, and the guides are grouped by the part of a sale they deal with. A topic gets its own page once it has two or more guides.
Selling costs
Timing
As-is and repairs
Inherited houses and probate
Tenants
Liens and back taxes
Cash or list
Selling costs
What a Washington seller actually pays: the excise tax brackets, title and escrow, commission when you list, and how those change on a cash sale.
Timing
Slow and busy months in the public sales data, how long each way of selling takes, and when the calendar matters less than the paperwork.
As-is and repairs
Which repairs pay for themselves before a sale and which don't, what buyers walk away from, and what selling as-is does and doesn't change.
Inherited houses and probate
Selling a house that came to you through an estate: who signs, what the court needs, and what to do with a house full of someone's things.
Tenants
Selling a rental with people living in it, the notice Washington law requires, and how showings and walkthroughs work around a lease.
Liens and back taxes
What a lien or unpaid property tax means for a sale, how payoffs work at closing, and the three-year line for tax foreclosure.
Cash or list
How to compare a cash offer with a listing on what you'd actually keep, and how to check any buyer before you sign.
How these guides are written
Every guide is published under Jason Bryant's name, and he reads and approves each one before it goes up. He was licensed as a Washington real estate broker in 2008, so the guides are written the way he explains things to sellers around the Puget Sound, plainly and with the numbers.
Every number in a guide has a public source you can check: the Department of Revenue for the excise tax, Redfin's and Zillow's public data for prices and days on market, the Census Bureau for the age of the housing. Every Washington rule links to the statute or the agency page it comes from, with the date it was last checked.
The guides explain how things work. They aren't legal or tax advice, and when a situation needs an attorney or a CPA, the guide says so. Dates shown as updated are real edits, never a refreshed timestamp.
A new guide goes up every Tuesday. If there's a question about selling you'd like answered, ask Jason when you call and it may become the next one.
Where to start
If you're only starting to think about selling, three pages cover most of what people want to know first.
The guides explain how a sale works in general; the numbers for your own house come from a walkthrough. Send the address and we'll walk through them with you, with nothing to fix or clean first.
It takes about a minute, there's no obligation, and your details are never sold.
