Truly as-is — leave everything
Keep what you want and leave the rest. Old furniture, junk, and unwanted items can stay. We handle the cleanout after closing.
If your house needs major work — roof, foundation, plumbing, or fire and water damage — you can skip the contractors and sell it exactly as it sits. Sell Dave Your House is a local cash home buyer serving Detroit and the rest of Wayne County — a fair offer, no repairs or fees, and a close on your timeline.
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When you need to sell a house in disrepair in Detroit, you don't have to list it, fix it up, or wait months for a buyer's mortgage to clear. As a local, direct cash buyer in Wayne County, we make a fair written offer on your Detroit home in its current condition — from Corktown, Midtown, East English Village and Rosedale Park to every neighborhood in between, cover the standard closing costs, and let you pick the closing date.
Yes. As a local cash home buyer, Sell Dave Your House buys homes in as-is condition. You don't lift a hammer, hire a contractor, or spend a dollar on repairs. We include the home's condition in a fair written offer and cover the usual closing costs. You can close in as little as 7 days.
Detroit's neighborhoods are all different. They range from the historic homes of Boston-Edison and Rosedale Park to the brick bungalows of Bagley and East English Village. Home values and buyer demand change block by block, which makes a normal listing hard to predict. We buy houses directly in every Detroit ZIP code, so you get a sure sale. You don't wait on a buyer's mortgage approval or worry about a low appraisal.
Detroit's market moves block by block. A fixed-up home on one street can sell fast, while the house next door sits for months. Add in Wayne County's tax cycle, the city's inspection and demolition programs, and lenders who are slow on older homes. A normal sale gets complicated fast. A cash sale skips all of it. There's no appraisal, no buyer financing, and no waiting on inspections for a home that needs work.
We buy houses in every part of Detroit, including:
A home doesn't have to be condemned to be hard to sell on the open market. Most regular buyers need a mortgage, and lenders won't fund a home that fails an appraisal or inspection. That leaves homes with repairs put off in a tough spot. They're too rough for a buyer with a loan, but still worth a lot to a cash buyer who can fix them up.
We often buy homes with roof and water damage, foundation or basement problems, mold, old or unsafe wiring and plumbing, fire damage, broken furnaces and HVAC, termite or pest damage, hoarder conditions, and open city code violations or blight tickets. If you feel embarrassed by the condition, don't be. We've seen it, and we buy it.
Many homeowners think they need to remodel to attract buyers. In real life, repairs eat up your time and money up front. And there's no promise you'll get that money back. Big jobs like roofs, foundations, or full rewiring can cost tens of thousands of dollars. Meanwhile, the home sits unsold and the bills keep coming.
Selling as-is removes that gamble. You skip the contractors, the permit headaches, the staging, and months of showings. We take the home as it sits and handle every repair after closing. The work, and the risk, leaves with us.
Open code violations, blight tickets, or an order from the city can feel like a trap. Fines add up while you can't afford the fixes. We have plenty of experience buying homes with open violations across Detroit and nearby cities. We work through the title and city requirements as part of closing.
Michigan's Seller Disclosure Act asks sellers to share known problems. Selling as-is doesn't mean hiding anything. It means we accept the home knowing its condition. Being upfront is exactly why a cash sale is so much simpler for a home in rough shape.
Keep what you want and leave the rest. Old furniture, junk, and unwanted items can stay. We handle the cleanout after closing.
Because we pay cash, there's no lender appraisal to fail. And there's no inspection that blows up your sale at the last minute.
No agent commissions and no surprise fees. The number we agree on is the number you walk away with.
Insurance, taxes, utilities, and growing fines on a home you can't use add up fast. A quick close stops the bleeding.
No listing, no showings, no waiting on a buyer's financing. Three steps from first call to cash in hand.
Enter your address and contact info. It takes less than 60 seconds. There's no pressure to move forward.
We look at your home in person. Then we give you a fair, written cash offer — usually within 24 hours.
Pick the date that works for you. We handle the paperwork. You walk away with cash.
That's right. We buy houses in as-is condition and do all the repairs ourselves after closing. You won't be asked to fix anything, clean, or even haul away unwanted items.
Your offer reflects the home's condition and the cost of the work it needs. But we base it on real local sales of similar homes, not lowball formulas. A regular sale costs you repairs, agent commissions, holding costs, and months of stress. Once you subtract all of that, many sellers find a fast cash sale comes out very competitive.
Yes. Fire, smoke, flood, and water damage are some of the most common problems we buy. These homes are nearly impossible to sell to buyers who need a loan. That's exactly where a cash buyer helps most.
We often buy homes with open violations and blight tickets in Detroit and nearby cities. We'll work through the title and city items with you as part of closing.
Often within 7 days once you accept the offer and the title is clear. If you need more time to move out or make plans, you pick the closing date.
Yes. We buy Detroit houses completely as-is. That includes homes with fire or water damage, foundation problems, a failed furnace, or open code violations from the city. You don't need to make a single repair, pull permits, pass a city inspection, or clean the place out before closing. We build the home's condition into our cash offer. So you can sell a home that most mortgage buyers and their lenders won't touch.
Past-due Wayne County property taxes are very common in Detroit, and they rarely stop a sale. We just need to act before the home is lost to the county's tax-foreclosure auction. Then we can usually pay the balance you owe through the title company at closing and take it out of your proceeds. The earlier you reach out, the more room we have to set up a deal. That deal clears the taxes and still puts cash in your pocket.
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Tell us about your property. We'll get back to you with a no-obligation cash offer, usually within 24 hours. You choose the closing date.