Sell a Hoarder House Fast, AS IS, for Cash

You can sell a hoarder house in three ways — the easy one, the hard one, and the third way is even harder.

The Easy Way:

1. A quick message or call to our team is all it takes to set up a walkthrough of the hoarder property.
2. Taking a good look at the house allows us to put a fair cash offer right in your hands.
3. If you accept the offer, the escrow process kicks off immediately. Running a title search and sorting out any active citations on the house are things our team tackles during this stage.
4. Wrapping up the escrow period is the final major hurdle. At closing, putting your signature on the last few documents is your final chore. Adding our signatures to the forms makes everything official on our end. Handing over the keys officially puts cash into your pocket.

This way, you will sell your hoarder house for cash, fast, and as-is. The entire timeline really is that basic. Speed and absolute convenience are built into the entire experience.

The Hard Way:

1. Finding a real estate agent is your first step toward getting the property listed. Hoarder properties often scare off many agents. Safety risks, even with a clear walking path, keep many agents from wanting to represent the homeowner. Clearing out all the items is a requirement for most agents before they'll market a house as a fixer.
2. The next step is to list the house and start the marketing process. Showing the house to prospective buyers becomes almost impossible when piles of clutter get in the way. Listings for hoarder houses often sit for a year or longer because most buyers simply aren't interested.
3. Home inspections and appraisals follow right after you sign the sales contract. Inspectors won't certify what's working and what isn't until they have a clean house to walk through. Stacks of items throughout the property make it impossible to spot any underlying damage.
4. Opening escrow is the next task on the agent’s list. Mortgages and hazard insurance are standard requirements for traditional buyers looking at the property. Most lenders and insurance companies struggle to work with a hoarder house. Escrow usually won't wrap up until the seller takes care of any citations on the property for the buyer. Local health, safety, or fire inspectors need to do a final review after the homeowner cleans the house to clear those citations.
5. Signing the legal documents allows the buyer and seller to close escrow and transfer the funds. Your sale proceeds will cover the closing costs and real estate agent commissions.

The Really Hard Way:

Theoretically, you can sell your hoarder house “by owner”. This involves all the steps described above but without hiring an agent.

If you don’t already know an interested buyer who’d accept your hoarder house, finding one among the general public, by marketing the house on your own, is likely to be very difficult.

Turnkey homes might sell this way, but properties with massive amounts of clutter usually send most potential buyers running.

The lack of knowledge of local building codes and formalities pertaining to selling a hoarder home is another disadvantage compared to dealing with a professional.

Whether or not selling a hoarder house is hard depends on who your buyer is and how you are looking for a buyer.

Finding an average buyer for a home filled with hoarding clutter is definitely a major challenge. Narrow paths through all the stuff can actually make house tours pretty dangerous for potential buyers.

Piles of belongings throughout the house usually turn people off, even if there’s plenty of room to walk around.

Most people feel completely swamped by a house full of clutter, especially since many already shy away from homes needing small fixes.

Adding trash or pets into the mix makes an already tough sale even harder to pull off.

Luckily, you aren’t limited to looking for buyers among the general public. We buy hoarder houses fast, for cash, and as-is. As professionals, buying a home packed with hoarding items doesn't stress us out at all.

Handling the cleanout process is something we’ve done many times while buying homes from hoarders and their families.

City violations regarding fire, health, or safety don't bother us since we’re experts at handling those issues as well.

Sellers often run into fresh headaches even after they’ve officially accepted an offer. Most regular buyers won't sign off on the deal unless the house is at least swept out and empty before closing. Our approach is a lot different than what you'd get from a typical buyer.

You can either let us help you clear out the property or just hand over the keys and leave everything behind. Taking care of the entire cleanout after we close the deal is something we’re glad to do.