{"id":1514,"date":"2021-01-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chrisbuyshomesstlseller7.carrot.com\/?p=1514"},"modified":"2025-02-15T15:26:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T15:26:33","slug":"selling-your-house-while-divorcing-in-kansas-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisbuyshomeskc.com\/blog\/selling-your-house-while-divorcing-in-kansas-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Selling Your House While Divorcing in Kansas City"},"content":{"rendered":"If you’re going through a difficult divorce and trying to figure out what to do about your unwanted real estate, then keep reading this blog post to give you our best suggestions about selling your house while divorcing in Kansas City<\/strong>…<\/em>\n\nDivorce can be challenging and emotional. Yet, in the midst of the difficult situation, you might be like other divorcing couples who own a house and are trying to figure out how to go about selling your house while divorcing in Kansas City. Here are our best strategies and ideas to help you navigate the real estate portion of your divorce as carefully and efficiently as possible.\n

Houses In Divorce Can Be Complicated<\/h3>\nDuring a divorce, the two parties seek to split their assets in half. For some assets are liquid (such as money), it’s very easy to do. For other assets, including real estate, it’s much harder to do because how do you split a house in half? It’s one asset that derives its value from being whole, and it’s usually a structure built on a plot of land, so it’s not going anywhere.\n\nSince cutting the house down the middle isn’t an option, should one party get it or the other? And maybe in some divorces, one party might be invited to take the house only if they can pay for it (which is a massive expense a time that people rarely want to incur such expenses).\n

Here’s How To Split The Real Estate Asset<\/h3>\nThe best way to split the real estate asset is to sell it:\n\nThe property itself might have some expenses incurred during the sales process, or there might be outstanding bills, or there might still be a partial outstanding mortgage on the property. So the two divorcing parties should probably just sell the property and direct their attorneys to apply the money earned from the equity to any outstanding debts.\n\nThe remaining amount can then be split between each party, with each party getting an agreed-upon percentage (such as 50\/50).\n\nBut this begs the question — how do you sell the property?\n

The Fastest Way To Sell A\u00a0Divorce House<\/h3>\nWhen it comes time to sell, most people think of selling through a real estate agent. Unfortunately there’s a few problems with this:\n