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Most sellers are looking at somewhere between 90 and 110 days from the decision to list to a funded close. That’s assuming the deal holds together on the first offer. A listing that goes live in March and closes by May is what most sellers picture, and in a strong market with a well-priced house…
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…
I got a call not long ago from a woman in Riverside who’d been sitting on a notice of default for a couple months, not really opening the mail, kind of hoping it would work itself out, and she was pretty convinced she’d already lost the house. She hadn’t, she still owned it, there was…
In real estate terms, a distressed property is one where something about the property or the situation around it makes a conventional sale difficult or impossible. Under that definition the situations vary considerably, and the first useful question is which category you’re dealing with. Most people who call and use the word “distressed” are describing…
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…
The call about the preliminary title report is one of the more common calls we get after someone goes into escrow. A lien nobody knew about, or an ownership gap that should have been resolved years ago, and the first thing everyone wants to know is whether the deal is still going to close. Most…
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 somewhere between two and four weeks. The fastest ones, where title is clean and the seller has everything in order, can come in around two weeks. On the cash deals we have run that stretched past two or three weeks, the hold-up was almost never…
