A large rental market
West Valley has a lot of small investor-owned property, so I see plenty of tired landlords. You do not have to evict before you sell.
Salt Lake County
Sell your house fast in West Valley City.
West Valley has a lot of seventies and eighties housing and a lot of long-term owners, which means two things arrive together: houses that need work, and families deciding what to do about a home somebody has lived in for forty years.
What I see in West Valley City
Modest houses that have worked hard.
Much of Granger and the surrounding streets went up as affordable family housing and has been exactly that ever since. Ramblers and split-entries, practical rather than showy, and lived in properly rather than staged.
Houses that have raised families for four decades tend to need the same things: a roof at the end of its life, a furnace nursed along one winter too many, kitchens and bathrooms original to the build.
That is not a reason to be embarrassed about the house. It is the ordinary result of using a home rather than flipping it, and it is the situation I work in most.
What I usually find here
- Original kitchens and bathrooms
- Roofs at or past their expected life
- Aluminum wiring in some seventies builds
- Aging furnaces and water heaters
- Basements finished without permits
- Long-deferred exterior paint
Unpermitted basement work
Very common here, and it complicates a retail sale more than people expect. It does not complicate a cash sale at all.
Estates and downsizing
Forty years in one house leaves a lot behind. Take what matters and leave the rest, including the garage and the shed.
Why West Valley City 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.
West Valley City questions
Answered plainly.
The basement was finished without a permit. Does that matter?
To a retail buyer and their lender, sometimes yes. To me, no. I price the house as it is and there is no inspection contingency to renegotiate under.
It is a rental and the tenant is still in it. Can you still buy?
Yes. I buy occupied rentals and take the tenancy on at closing, so there is no need to get anybody out first.
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.
A house that has worked hard is still worth a real number.
Send the address and I will come and look at it.