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You didn't ask for this house. Now it's yours.
An inherited house is rarely a financial decision first. It's a life-stage decision tangled up with a financial one. Most sellers we talk to are splitting proceeds with siblings, clearing a lifetime of stuff out of a 60-year-old three-bedroom, and trying to not blow up relationships in the process.
Whether you can sell depends on how the title transferred. If the house went through probate and a deed is now in your name (or the estate's name with you as executor), you can sell. If it passed through a transfer-on-death instrument (TODI) or a living trust, even simpler. If probate is still pending, you probably can't sign a deed yet — see the probate pillar.
On price, an inherited house usually sells below retail because it's dated, full of belongings, and you don't want to spend 6 months fixing it up to chase a higher number. That's fine. A cash offer solves the time and effort problem even when the house itself is in decent shape.
Your stage sets your buyer pool and your offer range.
What a cash buyer actually pays here.
Start with ARV as if the house were in its current condition — dated kitchen, original bathrooms, and whatever the carpet is doing. Cash buyers don't ask you to stage, paint, or clean. They take what's there. The offer is 65–75% of ARV minus a specific repair reserve for whatever the walkthrough turns up.
Example: $280,000 ARV on a 1965 three-bedroom in Charlotte, NC, $25,000 in confirmed updates needed (kitchen, one bath, HVAC). The math lands at $280,000 × 0.72 = $201,600, minus $25,000 repairs, for a cash offer around $176,000. Every line is on your offer page.
The belongings question gets asked a lot. Most cash buyers will take the house with contents — you take what you want, leave the rest, they handle the cleanout. That's part of the speed premium you're buying.[1]
Cash vs. listing — here's how long each takes.
If probate is already closed and title is clean, you can close cash in 10–21 days or wait as long as you need. If you're mid-probate, the timeline follows the court, not the buyer. We've had probate sales close in 30 days and others take 4 months. The offer number doesn't change for the delay.
With work before listing, photos, time on market, and inspection risk. On a tight timeline, a listing usually doesn't close in time — you'd want cash or a hybrid strategy.
When cash is NOT the right move on an inherited house.
If the house is in good shape, recently updated, and you have the time and temperament to list it, listing nets more money. On a $300k clean house that last saw a rehab in 2018, the difference between cash and retail is often $50k after commissions. That's real money for heirs splitting proceeds.
If the house generates rental income and an heir wants to keep it, keeping it is usually the better long-term outcome than selling. The stepped-up basis at death means very little capital gains tax if you sell now — but it also means low taxes if you hold and sell later. Talk to a CPA before you sell.
And if siblings disagree about selling, a cash sale will not resolve that — it will accelerate a fight. Solve the family question first. A partition action or a sibling buyout is cleaner than selling under disagreement.
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