Sell Your Hoarder House AS IS, Fast and for Cash in Scranton PA

We have experience buying hoarder houses. We’ll make a fair offer based on your property and not on the fact the house is filled with clutter.

There are a number of other advantages to selling to us. These include:

1. You sell quick
2. You sell for cash
3. You sell “AS IS”
4. No extra expenses
5. No endless showings
6. No waiting months for a buyer

You have several options when selling a house filled with clutter in Scranton.

The Easy Way:

1. Contact us and we’ll visit the hoarder property.
2. We’ll make you a cash offer for the house.
3. If you accept the offer, we’ll write up a contract specifying what will be done with the clutter in the house. If you don’t want the hassle of cleaning things out, we’ll handle everything.
4. We’ll open escrow. A title search will be done, and then we’ll arrange to handle any citations on the house during this step.
5. We close escrow. You sign the paperwork. We sign the paperwork. We get the keys to the house, and you get cash.
6. That’s it. Simple, easy and fast. There aren’t any real estate commissions with a sale to us, and we’ll even pay your closing costs. That can be a significant savings!

The Hard Way:

1. Locate a real estate agent to list the property. Many agents steer clear of hoarder properties. Even if there’s a path to walk through, that’s a safety risk that many agents don’t want to accept as the homeowner’s representative. Some agents will accept the house as a fixer, but they’ll require the homeowner to clear out the items before marketing the property.
2. List and market the house. This is difficult since the large amount of clutter doesn’t allow the house to be shown to prospective buyers. Most buyers aren’t interested in hoarder houses, so the listing may sit on the market for a long time – sometimes a year or more.
3. Sign the sales contract and conduct home inspections and appraisals. Inspectors require the house to be cleaned out before they can make a final report to certify what’s working and what isn’t. It’s also impossible to see damage when items are stacked in rooms in the property.
4. The agent will open escrow. Traditional buyers typically need a mortgage and hazard insurance on the property. A hoarder house may be a difficult match for most lenders and insurance companies. Typically, buyers will want sellers to remove any citations on the property before escrow closes. This requires the homeowner to clean out the house and have the local health, safety or fire inspectors do a final review of the property to remove these citations.
5. Escrow closes and funds are transferred after both buyer and seller sign the legal documents. Real estate agent commissions and closing costs will be deducted from your sale proceeds.

The Really Hard Way:

Put a sign on the property and hope a buyer sees it and wants to buy the property. This sales technique may work with turnkey homes, but houses filled with clutter scare most potential buyers.

Yes, selling a hoarder house is extremely difficult. Showing the house to prospective buyers can pose a risk to safety when the house has only walkways through the clutter.

Even when the house has wide paths to view the interior, stacks of things everywhere have a negative impact on visitors.

Many buyers aren’t interested in buying a home that needs minor repairs, and a house filled with excessive amounts of clutter can be overwhelming for most people.

When the hoarder house is filled with trash or animals, this makes selling even more difficult.

We’re not overwhelmed when dealing with buying a house with goods from a hoarding situation.

We’ve purchased properties from hoarders or their relatives before, and have assisted in the cleanout. We also have expertise in handling city health, fire, and safety citations.

Once an offer on the property has been accepted, there can be more problems for sellers. Traditional buyers typically want the house broom clean, at a minimum, before escrow closes. We’re not traditional buyers.

We’ll work with you in getting the house cleaned out, or you can walk away and leave the house without doing anything. We’re happy to handle the house cleanout after the sale closes.