The flexibility of the home-selling process is eliminated by the Real Estate companies who establish policies and procedures that have their own best interests in mind. The result is that the agent may not be open to ideas that the seller and buyer would mutually agree to. For example, you may want to consider:

Someone taking over your payments
Selling and renting back
Taking a note for all or part of the value of the house

Think about it, real estate companies have it perfect. You are committing to selling your house through them; But ask yourself, what commitment are they making to you? They are not legally obligated by any means to sell your house. If they haven’t sold at the end of the six-month contract, guess what, they haven’t lost a cent. Granted, they have a financial incentive to sell your house, but that doesn’t help you too much when your house hasn’t sold yet. You are still stuck with your payments. Do you think a real estate company is going to take over your payments while they try to sell your house?