Van Nuys has more of the houses we buy than anywhere else in the Valley. Most of the residential
stock between Victory and Roscoe went up between the late 1940s and the early 1960s — small stucco
three-bedrooms on flat lots, original galvanized supply lines, 100-amp panels, and a garage that
somebody converted into a bedroom two owners ago without pulling a permit.
That is exactly the house the retail market punishes. A buyer using an FHA or conventional loan
runs into an appraisal or an unpermitted-square-footage problem, the deal falls out of escrow, and
the listing goes stale while the seller keeps paying for a house they were trying to get rid of. We
pay cash, so none of that applies.
What we buy in Van Nuys
- Post-war tract houses south of Roscoe with deferred maintenance — roof, plumbing, panel, foundation
- Houses with converted garages, patio enclosures, or back-house additions that were never permitted
- Rentals in the 91405 and 91406 corridors, occupied or vacant, including ones you have stopped wanting to manage
- Estate and probate properties full of forty years of belongings — you do not have to clear anything out
- Duplexes and small multi-unit properties off Sepulveda, Sherman Way, and Victory
- Fire-damaged or red-tagged properties, and houses with open Building and Safety cases
Why sellers here call us instead of listing
Listing is the right move for a house that shows well. If yours does, an agent will beat our number
and we will tell you so on the phone — we would rather lose ten minutes than waste your month.
Where we win is on the houses that do not show well. On a Van Nuys house that needs sixty or eighty
thousand dollars of work, listing means paying for the repairs first, or accepting a discount from a
retail buyer who is guessing high on the repair cost and financing the fear into their offer. Add
commission, holding costs, and the two months it takes, and the "higher" price usually is not.
The other reason is certainty. We are not applying for a loan. There is no appraisal contingency,
no lender, no underwriter deciding in week five that the converted garage disqualifies the property.
Neighborhoods we work in Van Nuys
The blocks around the Van Nuys Government Center and Van Nuys Boulevard, the residential pockets
west toward the Sepulveda Basin, Kester Ridge, Lake Balboa's edges, and everything on the 91405 side
toward Panorama City. If you own a house between the 405 and Woodman, we want to look at it.
