How We Buy Houses for Cash As-Is

The walkthrough is where we confirm the offer, not where we reopen it. If the house is roughly what you described, the number we gave you is the number we close on.

If we find something significant that nobody knew about, active water coming in or a foundation that has moved, we will show you what we found, explain exactly what it changes, and let you decide. What we will not do is wait until you are out of options and shave the price at the closing table. If that has happened to you before, it is why this question is on the page.

Once the purchase agreement is signed and escrow opens, we can usually advance you up to $20,000 against your own sale proceeds. Sellers use it for a deposit on the next place, a moving truck, storage, or a payment that cannot wait three more weeks.

It comes out of your proceeds at closing, so it is an advance on money that is already yours rather than a loan, and there is no interest and no fee on it. Not every sale qualifies. Ask us in the first conversation and we will tell you straight away whether yours does. How the cash advance works, in full.

None of those stop a sale, and none of them are yours to untangle on your own. Liens, unpaid property taxes, city fines and a clouded title all surface during title work and get paid out of the proceeds at closing, so they come off the top instead of out of your pocket beforehand.

Probate runs on the court’s schedule rather than ours, so those sales take longer, and we will tell you honestly what the timeline looks like once we know where the estate stands. We close in the county the house is in, with a local title and escrow company, so you are not chasing paperwork across the state.

Then we will say so. Our offer is below what a repaired, listed house would fetch on the open market, and we would rather be plain about that than talk around it. What you are trading that difference for is speed and certainty: no repairs, no showings, no financing falling through a week before closing.

If your house is in decent shape, you are not under time pressure, and a few months of showings would not wreck your life, an agent will very likely net you more, and we will tell you that instead of taking the deal. We have sent people back to the open market before. It costs us a sale and it is still the right answer.