Sell your house for cash · Los Angeles
Forty years of a life in the garage. Take what you want, I’ll handle the rest. This is the situation people are most embarrassed to call about. I have seen it, I am not going to comment on it, and no photos of the inside go anywhere.
The estimate to clear it was more than you expected, and even that assumed somebody sorted it first. So the house stays as it is, and the decision keeps getting postponed.
This is the situation people are most embarrassed to call about. I want to be plain: I have seen it, I am not going to comment on it, and it does not change the offer.
A few questions, on the form or the phone: the address, what shape it’s in, what’s going on. Maisha usually picks up. Her job is to get me to your kitchen table, not to talk you into anything.
Day 0 · a few questions
I walk it with Marco, who sells the houses I buy and sits in on every seller meeting. You get the comps, the repair estimate and all three numbers on the spot. Not a “let me run this by my team.”
All three numbers, at the table
You choose, I execute. Cash closes in about 17 days at a local title company. On path two the renovation starts and I handle every contractor, permit, photo and showing.
Cash closes in about 17 days
Most of what follows does not involve me. I would rather you read all of it once and then choose, than call me because mine was the first number you found.
On a house that is structurally sound, a finished listing usually brings the most money, and that is true here too. The catch is the order. The house has to be emptied and cleaned before anyone can photograph it, show it or stage it, and the clearing is the exact thing that has been stopping you. Once it is empty an agent will probably talk to you about staging vacant homes, because furniture is what stops a bare room reading as small. That is another cost and a few more weeks. If you have family who can do the clearing, or the cash to pay somebody, start here. Agents list houses like this every month, once they are empty.
Estate clean-out and junk-hauling companies work all over Los Angeles County and they will quote on a full house. Get more than one quote. Ask what happens to anything valuable they come across, and get that answer in writing before anyone carries a box out the door. Once the house is clear you still have every other option on this list, and more of them.
An estate sale company or an auction house will look at what is inside separately from the house itself. If something in there has real value, this is how you find out, and asking costs nothing. It is slower than it sounds and it does not empty the house completely, but it can pay for part of the clearing.
You can auction the property as it stands, contents and all. It is quick and it is public, and you do not set the price. Fee structures differ a lot between platforms, so read who pays what before you sign anything. If privacy matters to you, this is the option with the least of it.
If the house could work as a rental, it can. A tenant needs it empty, safe and habitable, so the clearing and the repairs come first anyway, and then you are a landlord with everything that involves. Some people want that. Most people who call me about a full house have already decided they do not.
This is a real option and I am not going to argue you out of it. If the house is paid off and the carrying cost is small, waiting until you are ready is allowed. Read the section above so you know what the waiting costs, then wait on purpose instead of by default.
I pay less than a cleared, repaired house would bring on the open market, and in exchange nothing gets cleared, nothing gets photographed and nobody walks through to assess it beforehand. You take what matters and leave the rest where it is. That trade is only the right one if the clearing is the part you genuinely cannot do, and if it is not, one of the options above will pay you more.
One number, as it stands, contents included. This is the path almost everyone takes here, because clearing the house first is the exact thing that has been stopping the sale.
What it costs you. Nothing. No commission, no repair credits, and no closing costs out of your pocket.
Possible, and I clear the house as part of the work, but it adds weeks before it can be shown. When the contents are what has stopped the sale, most people want the cash date.
What it costs you. My listing commission, and the renovation money comes back out of the sale proceeds at closing. Never out of your pocket.
Cash, funding or a listing, whichever the situation calls for. For when the house is not the actual problem.
What it costs you. Nothing up front. Whatever I advance, carry or pay for comes back out of the proceeds at closing, on terms you see before you sign.
No. That is the whole point of this page. Take what you want and leave the rest.
People do use that word, and I do not. Selling a hoarder house, a full house, a house nobody has been able to face, it is the same job to me and the same offer. The contents are not a condition I am grading. They are just something I deal with after closing.
I clear it after closing. If there is something you are not sure about, tell me before we close and I will set it aside rather than guess.
It is priced in, the same as any other condition. What it does not do is make me walk away, which is what most sellers here have already been through once.
No listing, no photos, no showings. It is me, and then it is escrow.
Start with the address
You’ll know all three numbers before I leave your kitchen. And if listing it the ordinary way is the better move for you, I’ll say so out loud.
Maisha or I answer these ourselves, usually the same day.
Or skip all this:
(323) 363-2731That’s my line. Maisha or I pick it up.
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Or skip all this:
(323) 363-2731That’s my line. Maisha or I pick it up.
