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Most sellers are looking at somewhere between 75 and 100 days from the decision to list to a funded close. That comes from stacking the pieces: two to four weeks of pre-market prep, roughly 29 days on the market to an accepted offer, and another 30 to 45 days in escrow. That’s assuming the deal…
The first time most sellers see a California disclosure packet, they go quiet for a second. I’ve sent hundreds of them as a licensed real estate agent (California DRE #01505854), and that reaction never really changes. Nine times out of ten, it’s not the paperwork that stops them. They’re seeing the forms mid-escrow with a…
Pre-foreclosure and foreclosure are two different stages. In pre-foreclosure, the notice of default has been filed and the clock is running, but you still own the property and can sell, reinstate, or work with the lender. Foreclosure is the trustee sale itself, and once it happens, title transfers to the winning bidder and your options…
A distressed property is a home that is difficult or impossible to sell through a conventional, financed sale because of a problem with the property or the situation around it. These problems fall into four categories: condition (deferred maintenance or damage), finances (foreclosure or liens), title (probate or ownership disputes), and occupancy (non-paying tenants or…
You can sell a house with termite history, and the path forward depends on what the report says and how much of the repair scope you want to handle before listing. We’ve worked through a lot of deals across Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego, San Bernardino, and Orange counties where a pest report was already…
Most squatter removals in California run through the courts, not the police. Owners who try law enforcement first usually hear that there isn’t much deputies can do without a court order, and then they’re figuring out what the process looks like. I’m Andrea Van Soest, licensed real estate agent (California DRE #01505854) and co-founder of…
Yes, you can sell a house with a title issue in California, and most deals close. A title issue is anything in the ownership record, a lien, an heir gap, or a recording error, that has to be cleared before a clean transfer. How much equity is in the property usually decides whether it slows…
Most sellers we talk to are carrying a mortgage when they call, and the question they’re usually asking is whether that blocks the sale. It doesn’t, the loan gets paid from the closing proceeds, and whatever’s left after the payoff and costs is the seller’s. What Happens to the Mortgage at Closing A lot of…
Most sellers with a water-damaged property can sell without fully remediating first, and most of the conversations we have on these deals end with sellers realizing they had more options than they thought going in. We’ve bought water-damaged properties across Southern California, and the situations we’ve seen have looked different every time. We’ve walked in…
On the cash deals I’ve run, the close typically lands in the three-to-five-week range from signed contract to funded wire, with the cleanest deals coming in around three weeks. That runs a little longer than the seven-to-fourteen-day national benchmark Redfin reports for cash sales, because the preliminary title report and county recording still set the…
