Selling a House in Probate In West Little River? We Can Buy Your House For Cash.

The abandoned house next door, and three heirs out of state

We were finishing a four bedroom house in West Little River when the property next door started to look like nobody was coming back to it. Abandoned houses are not subtle, and you notice them faster when you are on the same street every day.

So we went looking for who owned it, and were passed along until we reached the executor of the estate. There were three heirs. All of them lived out of state.

That is the ordinary shape of an inherited house that ends up empty, and it is worth saying that nobody in it was being careless. They were simply not in Florida. You cannot look at a house from another state. You cannot walk through it, cannot let a contractor in and stand there while he tells you what he thinks, cannot tell whether the last person to leave locked the door. And a house nobody is watching does not hold still. It gets worse every month, and the people on the street see it long before the owners do.

It was a two bedroom on a decent sized lot, and it needed absolutely everything. Nothing partial about it.

The number reflected that, because it has to. A house that needs everything is not the same asset as a house that needs work, and an offer that pretends otherwise comes apart later at somebody's expense.

The estate closed and all three heirs were paid. From where they were sitting that was the entire point — a property in Miami that had been doing nothing but decline became money that actually reached them, without any of them having to manage a construction job in a city they did not live in.

We knew that street and we knew what the house needed, because we were standing on it every day finishing the one beside it. That is not usually how a seller finds a buyer. It is how it happened here.