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.
As-is, and the repairs we will not ask you to make
As-is gets used loosely, so here is what it means when we say it. Whatever repairs the house needs, they become ours at closing. Leave the furniture, leave the contents of the basement, leave the roof alone.
Sellers sometimes spend a weekend and a few hundred dollars tidying before we visit, and we would rather they did not. The condition is priced into the offer once, at the start, and cleaning up ahead of the visit does not move the number.
Why local knowledge changes the number
A house on Bark Lane. A house on Dogwood Lane. Both in Levittown, bought and paid for by us.
Levittown is roughly 51,758 people in Nassau County, ZIP 11756, and the housing stock is mostly levitt cape, levitt ranch, cape cod. Around Hempstead Turnpike and Wantagh Avenue, most of it is old enough that the mechanicals are on their second or third life. We have been buying across Nassau County for 15+ years. We know what the Levittown 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.
What the repairs really cost once you count the carry
There are two prices for any house that needs repairs: what it fetches today, and what it might fetch once the repairs are done. The gap between them is not profit. That gap has to cover the repairs, the time, the carrying costs, and the risk that the work uncovers something worse.
That last risk is real on older Levittown stock. Opening a wall to fix one thing regularly finds two more, and a homeowner funding repairs out of pocket has no cushion for it.
How we can profit on repairs a Levittown owner would lose money on
We run millions of dollars of construction a year. That buys materials at contractor pricing and keeps crews working steadily rather than bidding for one-off jobs, and the result is that the same repairs cost us roughly half what a homeowner pays to have them done.
That is the whole reason this works. A homeowner paying retail for pre-sale repairs usually cannot recover the cost out of the sale price. We can do the identical work for about half and still leave room in the number, which is why we can buy a house that needs repairs nobody else wants to take on.
How selling a house sold as-is in Levittown works
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Tell us where it is
Just the address in 11756 and roughly what shape it is in. It takes a couple of minutes. Leave the house exactly as it is; we do not need it tidied, photographed or fixed.
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A quick look in person
We visit once and it rarely takes more than half an hour. On the levitt cape or levitt ranch houses that make up most of Levittown, we check the roof, the boiler and the electric before anything cosmetic.
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A written offer within 24 hours
One figure, in writing, inside 24 hours. Not a range. Show it to a Nassau County agent if you want a second view; if the house is already in good enough shape to list, an agent may get you more, and we will say so.
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The date is up to you
Close quickly, or set a date months ahead to fit probate, a tenant or your own move. Either way there is no 89 to 104 days of a Levittown listing looking for a buyer and waiting on a mortgage approval.
Lender repairs versus pretty repairs
The repairs that matter to a sale are the ones an appraiser or an underwriter will flag. Everything else is a negotiation about taste.
Walk your list with us and we will tell you which is which. What we will not tell you is that every repair pays for itself, because it does not. A homeowner paying retail for repairs and recovering them at market rarely comes out ahead, and anybody promising otherwise has work to sell you.
The kind of houses Levittown actually has
Levittown is largely levitt cape, levitt ranch, cape cod stock, much of it built long enough ago that the mechanicals are on their second or third life. Boilers, wiring, roofs, and one bathroom last touched decades ago.
That is ordinary here, and none of it is a reason for us to walk away. Houses of that age come with repairs attached. We have bought plenty of them in Nassau County and we price the repairs rather than react to them.
What you do not pay when you sell a house sold as-is
Each of the following comes with a retail listing of a house sold as-is, and none of it comes with ours.
- Agent commission
- $36,400 at 5% of the Levittown median none
- Seller closing costs
- About $14,560 on a $728,000 sale. We can cover these. none
- Repairs to make it listable
- Everything a buyer would flag, paid for before you list none
- Cleanout and removal
- Charged by the truckload, and done before the first showing none
- Carrying costs while it waits
- Taxes, insurance and utilities for the 89 to 104 days of finding a buyer and waiting on their mortgage none
What to do before you commit to repairs on a Levittown house
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 a Levittown 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 Levittown 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 a Levittown house have to be before you walk away?
There is no condition threshold. Repairs are a line item for us rather than a decision point, because we do this work constantly. Tell us the worst of it and we will still come and look.
Should I get my own inspection?
You are welcome to, but you do not need one for us. We price the repairs ourselves, and we are not going to use an inspection to renegotiate after the fact.
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 a Levittown house is the figure we close at.
Would I do better making the repairs and listing?
Sometimes, and we will tell you when we think so. It depends on which repairs, what they cost you at retail, and whether the market rewards them. Get the as-is number first so you are comparing two real figures.
Can you point me to a contractor if I decide to make the repairs?
We can. If you decide the repairs are worth making, we would far rather you used somebody reliable than whoever answers the phone first. Ask us and we will tell you who we would call.