Houses we bought as-is. Before and after.

Most “we buy houses” sites show a finished kitchen and nothing else. We show the house the day we bought it, because that is the house you are selling. Every photo here is one of our own purchases: taken on a phone the day we walked in, and by a photographer when the work was done. Nothing is staged on the “before” side.

Each house was bought as-is. The seller did not repair, clean or clear anything. We paid cash, took the keys, did the work at our cost and then sold or rented the finished house. That is how we make our money, and it is why our offer is lower than a fixed-up retail price: the repairs, the risk and the months of waiting become ours instead of yours.

If your house looks like any of the “before” photos, we would like to see it. If it looks like the “after” photos, you may do better listing it, and we will tell you so.

The pool was a brown swamp with dead trees around it. Inside, the walls were red, black and teal with holes and patches, the main shower had been gutted and there was rot under the kitchen sink. The yard was overgrown.

New roof, new exterior paint, the pool resurfaced and the deck coated, new floors through the house, a new white kitchen, both bathrooms rebuilt, every wall and light redone.

A hoarder house on an overgrown lot, with trash across the floors. The kitchen and the bathroom had to be opened to the studs, and the slab was trenched for new plumbing.

New kitchen, two new bathrooms, new floors and tile, fresh paint inside and out, new lights and a cleared yard.

A 1970s ranch where every room was buried in boxes. The ceilings had water stains, the porch ceiling had rotted and the kitchen and bathrooms were original.

New kitchen, both bathrooms rebuilt, new floors, new lights, a full repaint, a new roof and garage door, the Florida room rebuilt and a new fence.

Neglected for years: knee-high grass, broken kitchen cabinets, holes in the walls and ceilings, torn porch screens and junk everywhere.

We opened the kitchen wall into a peninsula with new cabinets and quartz, put in new floors, paint and lighting, rebuilt the bathroom, rescreened the porch, cleared the yard and painted the outside.

Not every house we buy is a wreck. This one was clean and dated: laminate floors, an oak kitchen, white appliances, a worn tub. Most of the sellers who call us live in a house like this.

New white kitchen, new floors, a new tub-and-shower bathroom and a walk-in shower bathroom, new doors and lights, and the outside painted white with a dark garage door.