How Selling Your Austin House for Cash Works
The whole process, start to finish, with nothing glossed over — including how we calculate your offer.
Tell us about the house
Fill out the short form. Address, phone, name — that's it. No documents, no photos required to start.
Get your cash offer
We research the property, ask a few questions, and make a fair, no-obligation cash offer, usually within 24 hours. One quick walkthrough. No open houses.
Close on your schedule
Pick your closing date — as fast as 7 days or months out if you need time. A local Austin title company handles the paperwork and you get your money at closing.
How We Calculate Your Cash Offer
No black box. Every offer comes from the same simple math:
- After-repair value. What your house would sell for fixed up, based on recent nearby sales.
- Minus repair costs. What it will actually cost to get it there — roof, foundation, HVAC, cosmetics.
- Minus our costs and margin. Holding costs, closing costs on the resale, and our profit for taking the risk.
What's left is your offer. We'll show you the comparable sales we used, and we put the offer in writing. It never changes at the closing table.
What "Any Condition" Really Means
We mean it literally. Houses we've bought have had foundation cracks, 30-year-old roofs, fire damage, hoarding situations, unpermitted additions, and tenants who stopped paying rent.
Don't clean. Don't haul anything to the dump. Take what you want and leave the rest — furniture, boxes, the broken washer in the garage. It's our problem after closing, and we're fine with that.
Step One in Detail: The First Conversation
The first call takes about five minutes, and it is not a sales pitch. We ask what a title company would ask later anyway. The address. Roughly what the house needs. Whether anyone is living in it. Whether there's a mortgage or back taxes. What your timeline looks like. You don't need documents, photos, or a survey. You don't need to know your payoff amount to the dollar.
Here's what we do with that. We pull the county records and recent comparable sales. We look at the property's history. We form a rough price range before we ever set foot on the property. If that range is clearly going to disappoint you, we say so on that first call. We won't schedule a walkthrough that wastes your afternoon.
Step Two in Detail: The Walkthrough and the Written Offer
One visit, usually 20 to 40 minutes. We look at the roof, the foundation, the HVAC and water heater, the plumbing and electrical, and the scope of cosmetic work. We're not judging your housekeeping. We don't need the house cleaned or empty. Sellers who have already moved out let us in with a lockbox code.
Then comes the offer, in writing, usually within 24 hours. It includes the comparable sales addresses we used. It includes our repair estimate broken into categories. It includes the closing date you asked for. Read it and sleep on it. Take it to your attorney, or to an agent for a second opinion. The offer stays open while you decide. Nothing about it changes based on how fast you answer.
If our repair estimate is off because we didn't know something, tell us. We'd rather fix the number than lose a fair deal over a bad assumption.
Step Three in Detail: Title, Closing, and Getting Paid
When you accept, we open title at a licensed Texas title company. They take over the verification work. Their job protects you as much as us:
- Title search. They confirm you have the right to sell. They also find anything attached to the property: mortgages, HELOCs, judgment liens, tax liens, mechanic's liens, unreleased old loans, and heirship problems.
- Payoff statements. They contact your lender for exact payoff figures, including arrears and fees. They also pull a tax certificate from the county.
- Escrow. Our funds sit with them, not with us, until everything is clear to close.
- Recording. After signing, they record the deed with the county and issue title insurance.
Signing takes under an hour. Sellers who have left Texas sign with a mobile notary wherever they are. Funds are wired or issued as a check, usually the same day. Everything you owe on the property comes out of the proceeds at the table. You never bring money to closing.
What Can Actually Slow a Closing Down
We'd rather set honest expectations than promise seven days to everyone. These are the things that truly add time:
- Heirship issues. A deceased owner is still on title, or heirs need to be identified. Probate or an affidavit of heirship resolves it. The Texas State Law Library's probate guide explains the paths.
- Unreleased liens. An old mortgage that was paid but never released, or a contractor's lien nobody remembered. These usually clear in days once found.
- Divorce decrees that require specific language or a court's sign-off before a transfer.
- Delinquent taxes with a pending suit, which the title company resolves with the county's law firm.
None of these kill a sale. They add days or weeks. Knowing about them on day one is why we ask about them on the first call.
What the Contract Actually Says
Our purchase agreement is short, usually one to two pages. We'll walk you through every line. Here's what's in it:
- The price, stated as a fixed dollar amount, not a range or an estimate.
- The closing date you selected, and where closing will happen.
- Earnest money, deposited with the title company rather than held by us.
- What's included with the property, and confirmation that you may leave personal property behind.
- Who pays what. We pay standard closing costs. You cover your loan payoff and any liens or delinquent taxes, all paid from the proceeds.
- Title contingency, the standard clause that says the sale depends on delivering marketable title.
Take it to an attorney. We mean that as an instruction, not a courtesy. A buyer who discourages legal review has told you something important about themselves. An hour of a real estate attorney's time costs little next to the largest asset most people own.
Selling From Out of State, or Without Visiting the House
Many of our purchases involve a seller who isn't in Texas. Heirs settling an estate. Landlords who moved years ago. People who relocated for work before the house sold. The process barely changes.
- The walkthrough happens with a lockbox code, a neighbor, a property manager, or a tenant. You don't need to be there.
- Documents are sent electronically and signed electronically where permitted.
- Closing uses a mobile notary who comes to you, wherever you are. Texas allows remote online notarization for many transactions. The title company will tell you which applies.
- Funds are wired to your account.
One safety note that matters: wire fraud targets real estate closings specifically. Criminals send convincing emails with altered wiring instructions. Before sending or expecting money, always call the title company to verify the instructions. Use a number you looked up on your own, never one from an email. The FTC's consumer resources cover these scams. Any legitimate title company will expect and welcome that verification call.
After Closing: What's Finished and What Isn't
When you leave the title company, almost everything is truly done. A few loose ends are still worth knowing about.
Finished immediately: the deed is signed and headed for recording. Your mortgage payoff is sent to the lender. Delinquent taxes and liens are paid from the proceeds. Your funds are wired or issued as a check, usually the same day.
Takes a few days or weeks: the county records the deed, and your lender processes the payoff and issues a release. Watch for that release. If your loan servicer hasn't confirmed a zero balance within about thirty days, call them. Errors are rare, but they happen, and it's your credit report.
Your responsibilities: cancel your homeowners insurance as of the closing date and ask for a refund of any unused premium. Notify your utility providers and file a change of address. Keep your closing documents. You or your CPA will want the settlement statement at tax time.
Ours: the cleanout, the renovation, and every problem the house has from that day forward. If a pipe bursts the week after closing, it isn't your phone that rings.
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How we work
You Found Us. We Didn't Chase You.
Our whole sales process is no-pressure by design: you get a written offer with the math attached, it stays open while you think, and there's no obligation at any point. One follow-up call, then we leave you alone.
We also don't do outbound marketing — none of it. No bandit signs stapled to utility poles, no cold calls interrupting your dinner, no stream of letters filling your mailbox asking to buy your house. If you've been getting those, they aren't from us. We put our effort into being easy to find in search results, plus a few Google ads, so we're here at the moment you decide it's time — and invisible until then.