Hernando · Pasco · Citrus · Hillsborough
As it stands, where it stands. Don't fix anything, don't clean it out, and don't apologise for the condition — I've seen worse, and the condition is why you're calling me instead of an agent.
It's a phrase every cash buyer uses and not all of them mean. Here's my version: I look at the house, I account for the condition in my number, and that number doesn't move afterward because of something I could already see. No repair credits renegotiated three days before closing. No inspection contingency used as a second bite at the price.
If I find something genuinely hidden — a slab leak, an unpermitted addition nobody mentioned — we'll have an honest conversation. But the roof you told me about is already in the price.
People talk themselves into repairing a house before listing it because the internet told them a renovated house sells for more. It does. The question nobody asks is whether it sells for enough more.
A full renovation on a tired Florida block house routinely runs tens of thousands of dollars. You're fronting that in cash, managing contractors who may or may not show, carrying taxes and insurance while the work drags, and then paying commission on the higher sale price at the end. Sometimes that math works. Often it doesn't — and it almost never works if you're doing it from out of state or around a job.
I'm not going to pretend my offer will beat a fully renovated retail sale. It won't. What it will do is beat the renovated sale minus the renovation cost, minus the months, minus the risk, often enough that it's worth getting the number before you commit to swinging a hammer.
Take what you want — photos, documents, anything with meaning. Leave everything else. Furniture, appliances, the garage, the shed, the car that hasn't run since 2019. Hauling it away costs you a weekend and money, and changes my offer by nothing.
If the title's clean, about two weeks is realistic. If you need longer because you're coordinating a move or waiting on something, say so — a later closing is easy, and I'd rather you weren't scrambling.
I haven't found it yet. Fire, mold, hoarded, half-gutted, uninhabitable — I buy all of it. If a house is genuinely beyond saving, the land still has value and I'll tell you what that looks like.
No. Take what you want and leave the rest. It doesn't change your number and it saves you a weekend you'll never get back.
Not for anything I could already see or that you told me about. That's the whole point of as-is. If something genuinely hidden turns up we'll talk about it honestly — but I don't use inspections as a renegotiation tactic.
Sometimes, yes. Get my number and compare it against the renovation cost, the carrying costs and the commission — not against the renovated sale price. If listing wins, I'll tell you.
Not necessarily, but tell me about it early. Whether the claim proceeds stay with you or come to me is a term we agree up front, not something to discover at closing.
That's fine and fairly common. Vacant and uninhabitable houses are some of the easiest things I buy, because there's no one to move and no showings to coordinate.
It costs nothing to find out, and you keep whatever I learn about the property either way.