A vacant house is usually a drain — property taxes, insurance premiums (often higher for vacant homes), utility minimums, lawn maintenance, security concerns, and the steady creep of deferred maintenance turning into real damage. If your house has been sitting empty, boarded up, or unmaintained, we'll buy it as-is, with cash, and you can stop the bleeding.
A house that's been sitting empty isn't the same property it was when someone lived there. Pipes can freeze. Roofs leak unchecked. HVAC systems fail. Squatters or vandals can move in. Insurance companies drop coverage or raise premiums. Cities can issue violation notices that turn into liens.
Each month the house sits vacant, it gets harder to sell on the traditional market and easier to write off. We catch it before that point — or after, when other buyers won't touch it anymore.
Boards on windows signal trouble to retail buyers — and to their lenders. FHA, VA, and conventional appraisers often won't certify a boarded property as habitable, which kills the financing.
Standard homeowner's insurance typically excludes vacancy over 30-60 days. Specialty vacant home policies cost 2-3x more, and many carriers are exiting the market entirely. The longer your house sits empty, the harder coverage gets.
Tall grass, peeling paint, broken windows, accumulated trash — all can result in code violations. The fines escalate. Liens get filed. In some cities, prolonged vacancy itself is a violation.
A small leak no one notices for 6 months becomes mold and rotten subfloor. A failed sump pump becomes a flooded basement. Without someone watching the property, small problems become major repairs.
Vacant houses get targeted. Copper pipes get stripped. Appliances disappear. Squatters can establish residency rights in some jurisdictions that take months to resolve through eviction.
Three things that make this work when your house has been sitting.
We buy as-is, no matter the condition. Boarded windows, damaged interior, code violations, hoarder cleanouts, fire or water damage — we buy regardless. We see vacant properties in every imaginable condition. Yours won't shock us.
We close before more damage happens. The longer a vacant house sits, the more it deteriorates. We can typically close in 7-21 days, which stops the cycle and gets it out of your name before another winter, another insurance premium, or another violation notice.
You don't need to clean it out. Leave everything. Old furniture, accumulated belongings, the contents of the garage, the kitchen full of dishes you never came back for — we handle the cleanout after closing. Walk away with the keys.
Common Questions
Stop paying taxes, insurance, and maintenance on an empty house. We buy as-is, close fast, and handle the cleanout. You walk away.