Sell Your House As-Is, No Matter What Shape It Is In

What does selling as-is actually mean?

As-is means the buyer accepts the property in its current condition and the price already reflects the needed work. You still disclose known problems, which California law requires, but you fix nothing. With us there is also no inspection-based renegotiation, which is where most as-is promises fall apart.

Here is the industry secret worth knowing. Many buyers say as-is, then use the inspection report to grind the price down 3 weeks into escrow, when you are most committed. We price the work into the first offer instead, and we show you that math. If we say a number, that number is what closes.

Do you really buy fire-damaged and water-damaged houses?

Yes. Damaged homes usually cannot get conventional financing, which removes retail buyers entirely. Cash is how these houses trade. We buy them with open insurance claims, with remediation half-done, or untouched since the incident. Bring us the insurance paperwork and we will work with the situation as it stands.

A house that lenders will not finance is not unsellable. It just has a smaller buyer pool, and that pool pays cash. We have processes for damaged structures: contractor walkthroughs, remediation bids, and title work that accounts for any insurance proceeds. What feels like a disaster to live with is a solvable project to buy.

What about hoarder houses or houses that embarrass me?

No judgment, and no cleanup required. We walk houses in every condition and we have seen far worse than yours. Take the belongings that matter to you and leave everything else. The offer stands regardless of what is inside, and the walkthrough is private, with no strangers touring your home.

Shame keeps people trapped in houses for years. A traditional sale demands the house be presentable to dozens of strangers, which for a hoarding situation means months of painful work before you can even start. Our process needs one private visit. That is the entire audience. Sellers routinely tell us the biggest relief was not the money, it was not having to explain the house to anyone.

The house has code violations or unpermitted additions. Now what?

We buy houses with open code cases, unpermitted garage conversions, and red-tagged additions. These issues kill financed sales because lenders will not touch them. In a cash sale they become line items in our repair math, and we take over the responsibility of resolving them after closing.

San Diego County has thousands of unpermitted ADUs, converted garages, and add-ons from decades past. Retail buyers walk away because their lender makes them. We resolve permits and violations as part of the renovation, so your involvement ends at closing. Bring us the notice from the city and we will factor it in transparently.

Questions sellers ask us