You can sell a California house with unpermitted work, but the state’s mandatory Transfer Disclosure Statement asks about it by name, in three separate line items, and an as-is clause does not waive the obligation. Here is what the law actually requires and how to decide whether to permit first.
A Heggstad petition asks a California probate court to confirm that a house belongs to a trust even though the deed was never changed. It is filed under Probate Code section 850, it takes at least 30 days of notice the court cannot shorten, and the order has to be recorded before you can sell.
The California small estate affidavit under Probate Code section 13100 cannot transfer real property at all — it reaches money, tangible personal property and securities. The procedure that does transfer a house is a different one, and since April 2025 it covers primary residences worth up to $750,000.
Probate for a Los Angeles County decedent’s estate is filed and heard at the Stanley Mosk Courthouse, and the first-paper filing fee is $435. Whether you can sell the house quickly depends less on the court’s calendar than on whether the personal representative holds full or limited authority.
You’ve seen the signs: “We buy houses. Cash. Any condition.” They’re on telephone poles, in your mailbox, and all over Google. Some of the companies behind them are solid local…
As-is doesn’t mean no disclosure, and it doesn’t mean automatic lowball. Here’s what California law actually requires, and how to weigh a real as-is offer.
Cash offers aren’t random. Here’s the actual formula buyers use to land on a number, and how to tell a fair offer from a lowball.
Yes — escrow pays the county out of your proceeds at closing. The bigger question is whether you need to sell at all, because California gives residential owners five years of tax default before the tax collector gains the power to sell.
You can sell a fire-damaged California house, and you can sell it as-is. The harder question is timing, because California gives you up to 36 months to collect replacement cost after a declared disaster — and selling early can forfeit money you have already earned.
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