Where our construction experience helps with your repairs
A house that needs repairs sits in the gap between what a buyer's lender will finance and what an owner can afford to fix. That gap is where we work, and we have worked it on Long Island for years.
We buy in any condition. We do not ask for repairs to be made first, we do not ask for the house to be cleaned, and we will not use an inspection to renegotiate afterward. If the repairs turn out to be modest enough that listing would serve you better, we will tell you that too.
Selling an Amityville house without making any repairs
The repairs stop being your problem the moment we agree a price. We are buying the house in the condition it stands in today, and the offer reflects exactly that.
What we will not do is what a retail buyer usually does: agree a price, send an inspector, then come back with a list of repairs and a demand for a credit. The repairs were in our number the first time. An Amityville seller should be able to plan around a figure that does not move.
Why local knowledge changes the number
A five-bedroom on Sunshine Lane. A house on Washington Avenue. Both in Amityville, bought and paid for by us.
Amityville is roughly 9,500 people in Suffolk County, ZIP 11701, and the housing stock is mostly colonial, victorian, cape cod. Around Broadway and the Triangle, most of it is old enough that the mechanicals are on their second or third life. The Amityville stop pulls buyers who commute, which supports the good houses and does very little for the ones that need a roof. We have been buying across Suffolk County for 15+ years. We know what the Amityville Union Free School District does to a resale price, which blocks still have oil tanks in the ground, and what a house like yours is actually worth here.
Making the repairs and listing, or selling as-is?
The median house in Amityville sold for $611,250 and took about 35 days to go under contract, then another 45 to 60 days waiting on the buyer's mortgage. That is 80 to 95 days in total, for a house that was ready to show on day one. That assumes a house in showable condition. Getting there means paying for the repairs up front, carrying the house while the repairs are being done, then paying commission and closing costs on the far side.
Sellers frequently find that the finished-house price, minus the repairs, minus the carry, minus the commission, lands close to a straightforward cash offer they could have taken months earlier with none of the risk attached.
How we can profit on repairs an Amityville owner would lose money on
People reasonably ask how we make money buying houses that need repairs when a homeowner making the same repairs often loses money on them. The answer is not clever. It is volume.
Because we are running construction constantly, we buy materials at contractor pricing and our crews are already scheduled. The repairs on your house cost us in the region of half what you would be quoted to have them done. Same work, same standard, different cost basis, and that difference is what funds the offer we hand you.
How selling a house sold as-is in Amityville works
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Start with the basics
Where the house is (11701) and a rough sense of its condition is all we need to begin. Call or use the form. Nothing needs fixing or clearing out beforehand.
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We come and look at it
One visit, one person, usually under half an hour. On a colonial or victorian of the age most of Amityville was built, we are mainly looking at the roof, the boiler and the electric rather than the kitchen.
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We put a figure in writing
You have a written number within 24 hours, a single figure rather than a "somewhere around". Feel free to check it with a Suffolk County agent. When a house is ready to list as it is, listing can beat us, and we would rather you knew.
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You pick the closing date
Fast if you need fast, or months out if you are waiting on probate, a tenant, or somewhere to move to. Either way you skip the 80 to 95 days a listed Amityville house spends finding a buyer and then waiting on that buyer's mortgage.
Repairs worth making before an Amityville sale
Sort the repairs into two piles. One pile is the work that keeps a mortgage from being approved: roof, structure, active leaks, electrical that will not pass, sometimes heat. The other pile is everything a buyer would simply prefer.
If you are selling, the first pile can be worth funding and the second almost never is. Even the first pile only pays off if you can get those repairs done at a sensible price, which is the part a homeowner has the least leverage over.
Old stock, tired mechanicals, and why none of it puts us off
Owners frequently apologize for the condition of a house before we have even looked at it. There is no need. An Amityville house of that vintage needing repairs is the normal case rather than the exception.
What we are actually assessing is scope: which repairs are cosmetic, which are structural, and whether there is a water problem sitting behind any of them. None of those answers make us walk away. They set the number.
What you do not pay when you sell a house sold as-is
Every line below is a cost of listing a house sold as-is the retail way that simply does not arise here.
- Agent commission
- $30,563 at 5% of the Amityville median none
- Seller closing costs
- About $12,225 on a $611,250 sale. We can cover these. none
- Repairs to make it listable
- The work it needs to show well, out of your pocket first none
- Cleanout and removal
- Dumpsters or haulers by the load, ahead of any viewing none
- Carrying costs while it waits
- Taxes, insurance and utilities through the 80 to 95 days a listing takes to sell and close none
Get an as-is number before you spend on repairs
The order matters. Owners who price the repairs first and the house second often find they have already spent money the sale will never return.
We will give you a written number on an Amityville house as it stands, plus our read on what the repairs would genuinely cost and whether this market would pay for them. No obligation attached, and no call the following week asking whether you have decided.
Common questions
Can you sell a house as-is?
Yes. Selling as-is means the buyer takes the house in its current condition and the seller makes no repairs and gives no repair credits. We buy Amityville houses that way every time. What as-is does not change is what the law asks a seller to disclose. Your attorney will tell you what applies to your sale, and nothing about selling to us changes that.
How bad does an Amityville house have to be before you walk away?
We have bought houses that needed taking back to the studs and a few that needed demolition. The scale of the repairs changes the number, not whether we are interested.
Should I get my own inspection?
Not on our account. If you already have a report, show us and it saves a little time. If you do not, spend the money elsewhere, because we will be assessing the repairs ourselves anyway.
Will you ask for a credit for the repairs after the inspection?
That pattern exhausts sellers and it is not ours. We look once, we price the repairs once, and the figure we put in writing on an Amityville house is the figure we close at.
Would I do better making the repairs and listing?
It happens, particularly when the repairs are cosmetic and the Amityville market is moving. It happens less often when the repairs are structural, or when the money has to be borrowed. We will give you an honest read either way.
Can you point me to a contractor if I decide to make the repairs?
Yes. We work with trades across Nassau and Suffolk constantly, and we are glad to point you at people who do good work at fair prices, even when the outcome is that you list the house instead of selling it to us.