We Buy Houses In Swansea, MA!

No. We buy as is, and the purchase agreement says so in writing. Once we close, the condition of that house is ours, including the things we found and the things we missed. You are not going to get a call from us in three months about a furnace or a leak. The point of selling this way is that it actually ends when it ends.

That protection runs both directions, and it depends on you being straight with us. Tell us about the wet corner of the basement, the work a previous owner did without a permit, the ongoing disagreement with a neighbor. Sellers who hide something are usually not protecting themselves, they are building a problem for the closing table, because the title work or the walkthrough tends to surface it anyway.

Normally, and it is more common than people assume. Both loans are liens against the property, both get paid off at closing out of the proceeds, and what remains after the payoffs and the closing costs is yours. A home equity line sitting at a zero balance still has to be formally closed and discharged, which is a paperwork step rather than an obstacle.

The number that should matter to you is not the offer, it is what lands in your hand at the end. Ask us to walk through the payoffs so you are looking at a realistic net instead of a headline figure. How we get to an offer is not a secret, and if the payoffs are going to leave you short, we will say so at the start rather than letting you find out on closing day.

No. A good deal of Swansea property runs down to marsh, a brook, or the Cole River, and on plenty of lots the usable portion is much smaller than the acreage suggests. Wetland resource areas and their buffer zones limit what can be built, filled, or cut, and much of that is governed by local conservation review. That is a limit on what the land can become, not a bar on selling it today.

It does matter for the price, because we are buying the land as it can actually be used rather than as it looks on a plot plan. If there is a recorded restriction, an old order of conditions, or a denial from a project someone attempted years ago, send it over. We buy similar coastal and rural parcels in Dartmouth, and we would much rather understand the constraints than discover them.

Usually, but everyone holding an interest has to sign, and that means your mother and every child named on the deed. If one person will not sign, the sale does not happen, and that is the part families find hardest. The proceeds then get divided according to those interests, and how the split is calculated involves rules your attorney should walk you through rather than us.

Life estates were often set up years ago for reasons that made sense at the time and complicate matters now, particularly where long term care is involved. Get a copy of the recorded deed and have an attorney read it before anyone commits to a timeline. We are glad to look at the house and give you a number in the meantime, so the family is making the decision with a real figure in front of them instead of a guess.

Yes, and you would be surprised how often this is the thing people are most embarrassed to mention. Subfloor that has taken years of urine, scratched doors and casings, carpet that simply has to go, odor that has worked its way into the framing. It means gutting the affected areas, it gets priced like any other repair, and it is not a character flaw.

Do not clean, do not replace the flooring, and do not pay for an ozone treatment before we come out. Money spent on that almost never comes back in the offer, because that material is coming out regardless of what you do to it first. Let us see the house as it is and keep your cash in your pocket.