Selling an Inherited House in the San Fernando Valley

Get a written as-is offer

Tell us about the property. We'll be straight with you about whether we fit.

The usual situation

A parent owned the house since the sixties or seventies. It has an original kitchen, a roof at the end of its life, and a lifetime of belongings inside. Two or three heirs are on it, at least one lives out of the area, and everyone is discovering that a house nobody lives in still costs money every month — taxes, insurance that gets more expensive the longer it sits vacant, utilities, and yard maintenance somebody has to drive over to do.

Meanwhile the retail path requires spending real money first: cleanout, repairs, staging. Nobody wants to be the heir who fronts thirty thousand dollars on behalf of everyone else.

What we do differently

Contents stay. Take what matters to you — photos, documents, anything with meaning. Leave the rest. We clear it after closing at our cost.
No repairs, no inspections you pay for. Do not spend money on a house you are selling as-is.
One written number for the family. An itemized offer everyone can look at, so the conversation moves from arguing about hypotheticals to comparing two real options.
We close around the legal timeline. If it is in probate, we work with that pace rather than pretending it does not exist.

What we cannot do

We are not attorneys and we will not advise you on probate, trust administration, or how title should be handled. If the house was held in a properly funded trust the path is generally much simpler than if it was not, and that difference matters more to your outcome than which buyer you pick. If you do not have a probate attorney, we can give you names of a few who work in the Valley — we have no financial arrangement with any of them.

Before you sign anything with anyone

Get the offer in writing with the numbers broken out. Confirm who is actually on title and who has authority to sell. Ask whether the buyer intends to assign the contract to someone else — we may, and we say so in writing. And take it to your own attorney or accountant. Any buyer who resists those three things is telling you something useful about themselves.

How selling to us works

Three steps, and you can stop at any one of them. Most sellers we talk to are simply trying to find out what the house is worth as-is before deciding anything.

You tell us about the house

Address, condition, and what's going on. Five minutes on the phone. We'll tell you straight away if we're not the right buyer.

We walk the property

One visit, usually 20–30 minutes. No cleaning, no repairs, no staging. Tenants and belongings can stay right where they are.

You get a written offer

Typically within 24 hours of the walkthrough, with the number broken down so you can see how we got there.

You pick the closing date

Escrow at a local title company. As little as two weeks if you need speed, or ninety days if you'd rather take your time. We can also leave you in the house after closing.

Common questions

Can I sell before probate is finished?

It depends entirely on how the property was held and what authority has been granted. That is a question for the estate's attorney. What we can do is give you a written offer now and hold the timeline until the legal side clears.

There are four of us on title and one refuses to talk.

Common, and it is a legal problem rather than a buying problem. An attorney can walk you through the options. We can supply a written offer that makes the choice concrete for everyone, which sometimes moves a stuck conversation.

The house is full. Do we have to empty it?

No. Take what you want and leave everything else exactly where it is.

Will you lower the offer after we accept?

That practice exists in this industry and it is worth asking every buyer about directly. When we write a number, we intend to close at it; if something material and previously unknown turns up, we will show you exactly what it is rather than quietly renegotiating.