Estates are common here
Selling a parent's house has paperwork before it has a price. Sort out who can sign first.
Salt Lake County
Sell your house fast in Taylorsville.
Taylorsville is largely sixties and seventies ramblers owned for a very long time. More of what I see here arrives through an estate or a downsize than through any kind of crisis.
What I see in Taylorsville
Original owners, original houses.
Single-story ramblers on regular lots, built for young families in the sixties and seventies, many of which never changed hands again. Solid, modest, and completely original.
Original is the operative word. Kitchens, bathrooms, wiring, windows and the furnace are frequently the ones that were installed at the beginning, and they have all reached the end at roughly the same time.
Because these houses are often being sold by adult children rather than the person who lived there, the priority is usually to get it dealt with cleanly rather than to squeeze out the last few thousand.
Typical of a Taylorsville rambler
- Original kitchen and bathrooms
- Single-pane aluminum windows
- Furnace well past its expected life
- Cast iron drain lines
- Carports rather than garages
- Decades of belongings still in place
You are not clearing it out
Fifty years of belongings is normal and is not your problem to solve. Take what matters and leave everything else.
Out-of-state family
Plenty of these sales are run by children who live elsewhere. I can walk it, send you what I find, and close remotely.
Why Taylorsville sellers call
Usually one of these.
- Behind on the mortgage, or a foreclosure date approaching
- A divorce that has to be settled
- An inherited house, or a death in the family
- Repairs that have got past what you can fund or manage
- A rental with tenants who have become the problem
- A job moving you out of state on short notice
- Needing to sell now but move later
- Simply wanting to know what it is worth before deciding anything
Nearby
Also buying across Salt Lake County.
I also buy in Draper, Murray, Midvale, Magna, Kearns and the rest of Salt Lake County. There is no page for every town, so if yours is not listed, call anyway.
Taylorsville questions
Answered plainly.
My parents' house is completely original. Is that bad?
Not for me. Original means predictable, and predictable is easy to price. It matters far more on the open market, where financing depends on condition.
None of us live in Utah any more. Can we still do this?
Yes. I walk the property and send you what I find, and closings can be handled remotely. Nobody needs to fly in.
Would I get more listing it on the open market?
Often, yes, if the house is in reasonable shape and you have the time. I am a licensed agent with Omada Real Estate, so listing is a real option I can put in front of you, not one I have to talk you out of. I do not do the listing myself. An agent on my team does that full time, so the person pricing your house for the open market is not the person who might buy it. The comparison is here.
What does it cost me to get a number?
Nothing, and there is no obligation to accept it. I walk the property, then put the options in writing. The full process.
Original, untouched, full of belongings. All fine.
Send the address and I will come and look at it.