Sell my house as is, repair list and all

Owners tell us they want to sell my house as is and stop pouring money into a place they are leaving. That is the whole arrangement here. We look at the house the way it stands today, put a number in writing, and buy it in that condition. The roof can be past its life. The kitchen can be original. The garage can be full. None of it changes whether we buy, and none of it becomes a job you have to finish before closing.

List a fixer-upper and the repair list comes back at you twice. Once from your own contractor, then again from the buyer’s inspector as a credit request. Around here the numbers behind those conversations are not small. A tired roof, a foundation that has settled the way older East Bay houses do, decades of deferred plumbing: sellers routinely collect repair quotes that run well into five figures before a single buyer has walked through. Owners who want to sell house as is california wide are usually trying to skip that second round of negotiation. With us there is no inspection contingency to renegotiate, because we already priced the condition when we made the offer.

Probably, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something. A fully renovated house on the open market usually brings the highest sticker price. What that comparison leaves out is everything between you and that price: months of contractor scheduling, the renovation bill itself, agent commission, staging, carrying costs while the work drags, and the risk that the market moves while you wait. When owners run the honest math on a house that needs real work, the gap between our written number and their realistic net after all of that is much smaller than they expected. Sometimes it favors us. The point of this page is not to claim we always win that comparison. It is that you deserve to see both numbers before you choose.

No mystery and no formula we hide behind. We look at what the house would be worth in sound condition on its street, and we subtract what it will genuinely cost to get it there, work we then do ourselves after closing. We walk the property once, we do not ask you to gather bids, and we tell you plainly which problems moved the number and which did not. Unpermitted work and open code issues are normal on older Bay Area homes and they move the price, not the decision. The figure arrives in writing with nothing that obligates you, and it holds while you compare it against a listing, a renovation, or simply waiting.

As-is means the contents too. Take what you want to keep and leave the rest where it sits, the furniture, the paint cans, the thirty years of garage. The cleanout is our cost and our crew, and it happens after closing, when the place is no longer your responsibility. There is no staging, no open house, and no stream of strangers walking through while you still live there. For a lot of the families we work with, skipping that part matters as much as skipping the repairs. A house you have stopped loving is heavy enough without performing for buyers in it, and an estate you are settling from another city is heavier still. Leave it as it is. That is the deal.

We are a local company working across the Bay Area, and one person stays with your sale the whole way. We handle title, back taxes, and clearing the property out, so nothing is left for you to arrange. Sellers weighing this often read how other owners handled a place that needed work before they call, which is exactly the right instinct. Check us against anyone. Homeowners rate us 4.9 across more than 500 Google reviews, and we are BBB A+ accredited.