We Buy Houses As-Is, With Our Own Funds
District Estate is a direct buyer, not an agency. That distinction is the whole point: when you list a house, the closing date belongs to a buyer's lender — underwriting, appraisal, conditions, a re-lock if rates move. Thirty days becomes sixty, and an appraiser's repair list can end the sale outright.
Because we buy with our own funds, there is no lender in the transaction. The closing date becomes a decision rather than a prediction, and the condition of the house stops being a reason the deal falls apart. That is useful in a specific set of situations — and genuinely not useful in others, which we'll come to below.
Why Sellers Choose Us
Sell As-Is
No repairs, no cleaning, no staging. We buy the property in its current condition.
No Fees or Commissions
No agent commissions and no closing costs taken out of your proceeds.
You Pick the Closing Date
Close quickly or take the time you need. The timeline is yours.
Situations Where This Actually Helps
Most people who contact us aren't in a normal selling position. If one of these is you, the linked guide explains how it works in practice.
Inherited a Property
Probate, heirs in different states, and a house full of decades of belongings. A vacant inherited house also costs you every month, and vacancy can void a standard homeowner policy.
How it works →Behind on Payments
Selling before a foreclosure completes is how you keep the equity you still have, and it keeps a completed foreclosure off your credit file.
Your options →Divorce or Separation
A definite closing date both sides can plan around, rather than an open-ended listing neither of you controls.
How it works →Relocating on a Deadline
Military PCS orders or a job start date that will not wait for a lender to clear a financed buyer.
Selling on a deadline →Repairs You Won't Make
Roof, foundation, electrical. The repairs that fail an appraisal are exactly the ones that kill a financed sale.
Read more →Tax Liens or Other Liens
Liens don't prevent a sale. They get settled at closing out of the proceeds rather than paid by you up front.
Selling with a lien →24 hrs
Typical offer turnaround
$0
Fees or commissions
As-Is
No repairs required
What As-Is Really Means
You don't do any of this. Drag the slider — the work on the right is what a cash buyer takes on after closing, and the reason an as-is offer comes in below retail. Illustrative photography, not a District Estate project.
We Buy Houses That Look Like This
The most common reason people don't call is deciding their house is too far gone to be worth anything. It isn't. We buy as-is, and we don't ask you to repair, clean or clear a single thing first.
-
Vacant and boarded upEmpty for months, secured at the windows.
-
Overgrown and neglectedNobody has kept the yard back in years.
-
Needs a full renovationFloors, walls and ceilings all at once.
-
Water or ceiling damageThe thing that fails an appraisal.
-
Dated and never updatedOriginal kitchen, original everything.
-
Still full of belongingsYou do not have to clear it out.
Illustrative stock photography via Unsplash, showing the kinds of condition we buy in. None of these photographs shows a District Estate property.
When You Should List Instead
If your house is in good condition, you have no fixed deadline, and you can give a sale 60 to 90 days, list it with an agent. A retail buyer using a mortgage will almost always pay more than we can, because our number has to absorb repairs, holding costs and a resale margin. Paying a commission out of a higher sale price can still leave you with more money.
We'd rather tell you that on the phone than buy a house from someone who later feels they were taken advantage of. A cash sale earns its place when something makes the retail path unreliable — a deadline that cannot move, repairs that will not survive an appraisal, a tenant in place, probate, or a vacant property costing you every month.
When we do make an offer, you see the comparable sales and the repair assumptions behind it, not just a figure. If a buyer won't show you that math, that tells you something about the offer.
WHERE WE OPERATE
Our Locations
Currently operating in key growth markets across the United States
Virginia • Texas • Atlanta • Washington DC • Maryland • Ohio • Florida • Arizona • Colorado
Headquartered in Fairborn, Ohio, we buy houses throughout the Dayton area, including Dayton, Beavercreek, Fairborn and Huber Heights.
See All MarketsLatest From Our Blog
Guides for homeowners who need to sell quickly
How to Sell Your House Fast for Cash
What the cash-sale process actually looks like, start to finish.
Read More →Selling a House to Avoid Foreclosure
Understand your options before the timeline runs out.
Read More →Get Your Cash Offer
Takes about a minute. No obligation and no cost — and if listing would net you more, we'll tell you.
We never share your information. Submitting this form puts you under no obligation to sell.