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The question sellers ask me most often when mold is involved is whether they can actually sell. The answer is yes, and the real question is how disclosure gets handled. California does not prohibit selling a home with mold present. Legal exposure comes from concealing what you know, and that distinction matters more than whether…
In a California cash sale, the buyer customarily covers the bulk of the closing costs: the documentary transfer tax, the owner’s title insurance policy, escrow fees, and recording costs. The seller’s side is usually thin, mostly the mortgage payoff, any liens, prorated property taxes, and an HOA transfer fee. Because there’s no lender, the loan…
Finding a cash buyer online takes about five minutes. Knowing whether that buyer will actually fund is the part most sellers skip, and that’s usually what comes back to cost them when a deal falls apart. The phrase covers two very different searches, and this piece is for a homeowner looking for an investor to…
You can sell a house with foundation issues in California, and the path forward depends on the type and severity of what the inspection finds. Most sellers come in thinking the situation is worse than it is. We’ve worked through enough of these to know the outcome depends a lot on getting a real assessment…
The formula: Capital Gain equals Sale Price minus Selling Costs minus Adjusted Basis. Your Adjusted Basis equals the original Purchase Price plus Capital Improvements minus the Depreciation you claimed over the years. On a rental, that gain then splits into two pieces: the portion tied to depreciation is taxed as unrecaptured Section 1250 gain at…
Agents and investors serve completely different purposes in a real estate transaction, and treating the choice between them as a matter of price is where most sellers get confused. An agent’s job is to find a retail buyer willing to pay close to market value and manage that transaction to close. An investor buys the…
For a sale with equity in it, the reverse mortgage payoff comes out of closing proceeds the same way any standard mortgage would. Most sellers in that position say the closing process itself didn’t feel that different from what they expected once they had the payoff figure in hand. Two situations create complications: when the…
Yes, and the squatters don’t need to be gone before you close. California law doesn’t prevent a property owner from selling with an unauthorized occupant still inside. The path depends on how much time you have and whether the occupant will cooperate. We’ve closed deals under all three scenarios. Your Options When There Are Squatters…
The short answer: you can sell a California condo without HOA or FHA approval dragging out your timeline, as long as you order the HOA document package before you go under contract and know your complex’s FHA project-approval status going in. Those two moves clear the delays that stall most condo escrows. I’ve worked condo…
You can sell a distressed property in California, and in most cases both a listing path and a cash-sale path are real options depending on what type of distress you’re dealing with. The better path changes based on the specifics, and both tend to stay on the table until something about the situation rules one…
