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Seven to fourteen days when there is a real deadline, and closer to thirty on a normal timeline. What actually drives it is the title work — an open estate, a tax lien, a missing discharge, or a state-specific requirement like a septic inspection or an estate lien release can add days. Tell us the deadline on the first call and we will say honestly whether we can beat it.

Seven: New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Vermont and Maine, covering 22 cities and the communities around them. If your town is not listed, ask anyway — we buy well outside the named cities.

Yes. Fire and water damage, hoarder conditions, failed septic, knob-and-tube wiring, an old buried oil tank, open code violations, a roof at the end of its life — we buy it exactly as it stands. There is nothing to clean out and nothing to fix. Take what you want and leave the rest.

New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont and Maine are judicial states — the lender has to file a lawsuit and win before anything can be sold. Massachusetts and New Hampshire use a power of sale, which means no judge is involved and the timeline is much shorter.

Connecticut is its own animal. It uses strict foreclosure, where the court can transfer title straight to the lender once the last law day passes, frequently with no auction at all. If you are in Connecticut, the law days are the date that matters.

In every one of our states, yes — right up until the sale actually happens. What differs is how much runway you have. New Hampshire gives a homeowner 45 days notice on a residential auction. Pennsylvania lets you cure up to one hour before bidding opens. Maine runs a 90-day redemption period after judgment before a sale can occur.

What never works is waiting. Call with the date in hand and we will tell you straight away whether there is enough time.

This is the single most misunderstood point, and the answer flips depending on where you are. New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania give you nothing once the property is sold under a mortgage foreclosure. Vermont and Maine put the redemption window before the sale — six months from the decree in Vermont unless the court shortens it, 90 days from judgment in Maine. In Connecticut, a strict foreclosure ends when the last law day passes and title becomes absolute in the lender.

Short version: in most of the Northeast, the sale is the wall. Plan around it, not after it.

Less often than you used to, but it still depends on the state. Maine now requires the municipality to pay a former owner any sale proceeds above the taxes, interest and allowable costs. New Hampshire has required that since 1998, and its Supreme Court struck down the three-year cutoff on it in 2020. Pennsylvania has directed tax-sale surplus to the owner since 1990. New York added a surplus claim process in 2024, with at least three years to file on residential property.

Vermont has not passed one — a private tax-sale purchaser there can still keep the difference. Either way, the reliable way to keep your equity is to sell before the taking, not to chase the money afterward.

Usually, and often sooner than people expect — but the mechanics differ. In New York, real property vests in the heirs at death and an executor generally has statutory power to sell without a separate court order. In Massachusetts, a personal representative typically needs a license from the court to sell if the decedent died without a will or the will did not grant that power.

We work with executors, administrators and personal representatives every week and can usually tell you on the first call which route your estate is on.

Yes. We buy two- and three-family properties with tenants in place, and no showings are required. A sale does not end a tenancy anywhere in the Northeast; the buyer takes the property subject to the existing leases.

The part that trips up selling landlords is the security deposit. Every state we buy in requires it to be transferred to the buyer with written notice to the tenant, and several make the new owner liable for it whether it was actually handed over or not. We handle it properly at closing so it does not follow you.

Recent comparable sales in your own town, then the condition of the property and what it will take to make it sellable, then the carrying costs while that work happens. We show you the reasoning rather than just a number, and there is no obligation to take it.

We do not use a regional average. Worcester and Rochester are not the same market, and neither are two neighborhoods in the same city.

No commission and no fees from us. The one thing that varies is the state transfer tax and who customarily pays it — the seller in New York and Connecticut, the buyer in Vermont, split roughly in half in New Hampshire, Maine and Pennsylvania. Your closing attorney or title agent will show the exact figures on the settlement statement.