House Buyers Texas — A Guide to Selling Homes in Real-World Situations

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Downsizing Your Home in Texas: A Guide for Empty Nesters and Retirees

Thinking about downsizing your home in Georgetown? How to time the move, count the real costs, decide which home comes first, carry your over-65 school tax ceiling, and clear out the house.

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Short Sale Texas Guide: Owing More Than Your Odessa House Is Worth

Owe more than your Texas house is worth? How a short sale works, what the lender asks for, how its clock compares with foreclosure, and what to ask about the leftover debt.

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Home Sale Contingency: Buying the Next House Before Selling in Round Rock

Need to buy your next house before the current one sells? How the Texas home sale contingency works, why sellers push back, and the other routes to compare.

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Capital Gains Tax on Second Home Sales: Selling a Lake Conroe Weekend House

Selling a weekend house on Lake Conroe, or one you inherited? The federal home sale exclusion usually does not apply, but an inherited basis can shrink the gain. Here is how it works.

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Small Estate Affidavit Texas Harris County Guide: Selling a Parent's Homestead

A parent died without a will and left a Houston home. Here is when a Texas small estate affidavit can transfer the homestead, what it cannot do, and how heirs then sell.

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Selling a House With a Shared Well in Texas

Selling an Athens-area house that shares a well with a neighbor takes some extra paperwork. Here is what to gather before you sell, and what the Texas seller's disclosure asks about your water.

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Selling a Hoarder House in Texas: Clean It Out or Sell As-Is?

A house packed with belongings can still be sold. Here is how Texas families weigh a full cleanout against an as-is sale, what to pull out first, and what to disclose.

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Selling a Vacant House in Texas: Insurance, Taxes and Risks

A house nobody lives in keeps generating bills and risks. Insurance, taxes and code compliance all change once it sits empty.

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Selling a House With a Reverse Mortgage After the Owner Dies

A reverse mortgage does not die with the borrower. It comes due, and the heirs have a short window and a few protections worth knowing.

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Selling a House With Code Violations or City Liens in Texas

A code violation notice is not a lien, and it does not stop a sale. Time is what turns one into the other, and the city can bill the property.

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Behind on HOA Dues in Texas: Can the HOA Foreclose?

A Texas HOA can foreclose for unpaid assessments, but not quickly and not for fines alone. Chapter 209 sets the steps, and most take months.

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Relocating for a Job: Selling Your Texas House Before You Move

The new job has a start date. The house does not. Here is how to decide whether to sell before you go or sell from a distance.

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Selling a House During a Divorce in Texas

The house can be sold before the divorce is final or after it. What decides the route is who has to sign and what the court has ordered.

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Selling a House With an Unpermitted Addition in Texas

The converted garage is not the problem. The appraiser and the lender are, and they will not count square footage that was never permitted.

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Selling a House With Fire or Storm Damage in Texas

The insurance claim is often worth more than the discount. Who ends up with it is negotiable, and frequently negotiated badly.

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Selling a House Before the Foreclosure Sale Date in Texas

Texas is a non-judicial state. Once the notice is posted the clock is short, and the auction happens on a Tuesday whether you are ready or not.

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Selling a Rental Property With Tenants Still In It (Texas)

You can sell a tenanted house in Texas. You cannot sell the tenant's lease away, and that changes who will buy it.

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How Is a Cash Offer on a House Calculated?

Every cash offer is the same arithmetic. Knowing the four inputs is how you tell a fair offer from a bad one.

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How Fast Can a Cash House Sale Actually Close in Texas?

Removing the lender removes most of the delay. What is left is title work, and that has a floor.

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Selling a Texas House With Back Property Taxes Owed

Unpaid Texas property taxes attach to the house, not to you. That is worse in one way and much better in another.

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Selling a Texas House With Foundation Problems

Clay soil moves, slabs crack, and financed buyers disappear. What actually happens when you try to sell a house with foundation issues.

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Do You Pay Taxes When You Sell an Inherited House in Texas?

Most people expect a large tax bill on an inherited house and most people do not get one. The reason is stepped-up basis.

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How to Sell a House in Probate in Texas

A house can be sold during probate. What changes is who signs, and what the title company needs to see before they will insure it.

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Selling an Inherited House in Texas: What Actually Happens

The house is yours on paper the moment someone dies. Selling it is a different question, and the answer depends on how title moves.

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Affidavit of Heirship in Texas: When It Works

Learn how heirship affidavits offer a legal workaround for property transfers without a will or probate in Texas. House Buyers Texas can help you sell an inherited home fast. Find out more!