We Buy Houses in Cudahy, WI Fast for Cash

Sell Your Cudahy House the Simple Way

Cudahy began as Patrick Cudahy's meatpacking town in the 1890s, became a city in 1906, and still fits a lot of houses into under five square miles between Mitchell Airport and Lake Michigan. Simply Sold RE buys those houses for cash: bungalows, Cape Cods, duplexes and small ranches, with no repairs, no showings and no agent.

Cudahy homes were mostly built for working families and kept up by the same families for decades. That is why so many of the calls we get here are about a house that has been in one family for forty or fifty years and now needs to be sold by the next generation, or about a duplex whose owner is ready to stop being a landlord. If you have a well-kept house and no deadline, listing it may get you more. If time, distance or condition makes that hard, call (414) 400-6116.

Older Homes and What Inspectors Find

Many Cudahy houses date from before 1960, and a house that age usually has a few things a buyer's inspector will write up even when it has been cared for: a basement that seeps after heavy rain or has had a sewer backup, plaster walls with cracks, older wiring or a small electrical service, a boiler or furnace past its expected life. Any home built before 1978 may also have lead paint under the newer layers, and sellers have to disclose what they know about it. None of that has to be fixed or tested before you sell to us. We see the house, price the work in, and buy it as it is.

Selling a Cudahy Duplex With Tenants

Upper-and-lower duplexes are part of the Cudahy streetscape, and many are owned by someone who lives in one unit or by a small landlord who has had them for years. Selling one on the open market means arranging showings around tenants and finding a buyer whose lender will accept the leases and the rent roll. We buy duplexes with the tenants in place, take over the leases and the security deposits at closing, and do not ask you to empty a unit. Our guide to selling a duplex with tenants goes through the details.

When the House Comes Through an Estate

For Cudahy estates, probate runs through Milwaukee County Circuit Court, with filings at the Register in Probate in the courthouse downtown. Wisconsin offers informal administration for most families, and if the person's property subject to probate totals $50,000 or less, an heir can sometimes transfer the house by affidavit and skip a probate case. A personal representative who never lived in the home is also exempt from filling out Wisconsin's Real Estate Condition Report, so you do not have to answer questions about a basement you never used.

We can buy with the furniture, dishes and the workbench still in the basement. Out-of-town heirs sign electronically or by mail, and the title company sends each person their share. See selling an inherited house in the Milwaukee area for more.

Taxes, Airport Noise and Costs

Cudahy property taxes are paid to the City Clerk/Treasurer's office at City Hall on South Lake Drive. Unpaid prior-year taxes go to the Milwaukee County Treasurer, which adds interest and penalty and can foreclose on property that stays delinquent. Anything owed is paid off at closing from the sale money. Homes on the west side of the city sit close to Mitchell Airport, and the noise is something some buyers will not accept. We look at those houses the same way we look at any other. We also pay Wisconsin's transfer fee, $3 per $1,000 of the price, which is otherwise the seller's to pay.