Selling a House With Work That Was Never Inspected Converted garages, enclosed patios, added bathrooms, a second structure out back. Plenty of Texas houses carry work that was done without a permit, sometimes decades ago by an owner who has long since moved on. It becomes your problem at closing. The first issue is simple arithmetic. If a bedroom was added without permits, it likely does not appear in the county records or the tax roll. An appraiser measuring the ho
How to Sell a Texas House on a Relocation Deadline A job relocation turns a house sale into a scheduling problem. The start date is fixed, the move is fixed, and the house is the one variable that refuses to cooperate. Most of the bad outcomes here come from treating it as a pricing question when it is really a timing question. Work out your actual deadline first. Not the start date — the date after which carrying two housing costs becomes painful. If the new city requir
The Texas Seller Disclosure and What You Must Tell Buyers The single most common misunderstanding in a Texas home sale is that selling a house as is removes the obligation to disclose. It does not. As is describes who pays for repairs. Disclosure describes what the buyer is told. They are separate things and confusing them creates liability that survives closing. Texas requires a seller of residential property to give the buyer a written Seller's Disclosure Notice coveri
Selling a Texas House That Has Flooded Before If your house sits in a Harris County flood zone, or has taken water at any point, you already know it changes the conversation with buyers. What surprises most sellers is how much of that conversation is set by law rather than by negotiation. Texas requires a seller of residential property to give the buyer a written disclosure notice covering the property's condition, and flooding is dealt with directly. The form asks wheth