HomelyOffer
HomelyOffer buys houses for cash in New Orleans, LA in any condition — inherited, vacant, tenant-occupied, storm-damaged, or behind on taxes. There are no repairs, no agent fees, and no showings: you get a cash offer and pick your closing date, often within 7 to 14 days.
A New Orleans house can carry more than memories — it can carry water damage from a storm you're still paying off, a succession no one ever finished, or flood insurance that costs more than the note ever did. Maybe it's the family double shotgun in the Seventh Ward that four cousins technically own and nobody can agree on. You don't have to gut it, elevate it, clear the title alone, or wait out a slow market. We'll make you a fair cash offer on it exactly as it sits — raised slab, termite damage, tarps and all.
✔ Any condition — inherited, vacant, foreclosure, bad tenants ✔ No fees or commissions ✔ Close in as few as 7 days
New Orleans housing is unlike anywhere else — single and double shotguns, camelback shotguns, and Creole cottages in Bywater, the Marigny, and Tremé; brick and frame bungalows and mid-century ranches out in Gentilly, Lakeview, and New Orleans East; grand doubles Uptown. That character is also where the distress hides: elevation can change several feet in a single block, so two houses on the same street sit in different flood zones, and an AE-zone home can carry a flood-insurance bill that runs into five figures a year. Katrina and every storm since left a long tail of raised-slab damage, deferred repairs, and Road Home elevation projects that were never finished. On top of that, a huge share of New Orleans homes were passed down through families without a formal succession — heir property where the title is tangled across cousins and generations, which is exactly how homes drift into blight, pile up code-enforcement liens, and end up adjudicated to the City at tax sale. We buy in all of it, tangled title and all.
We buy houses throughout New Orleans, including:
Maybe it's your grandmother's double shotgun in the Seventh Ward or a Creole cottage in the Marigny, and you're three states away trying to manage it by phone. If the succession was never opened, the title may still be in a deceased relative's name and split among cousins — we work with heir property and messy successions all the time, and we can point you to a probate attorney to clear it. You don't have to fly in, empty it out, or fix a thing.
A New Orleans property that's sat empty since a storm attracts code-enforcement inspections fast, and those turn into blight judgments and liens that follow the property. If you've gotten notices from Code Enforcement — or you're worried the house is headed toward being adjudicated — we'll buy it as-is, tarps, mold, missing copper and all, and take the citation headache off your plate.
Renting out half a double shotgun sounded good until the tenant stopped paying, the slab cracked, and every repair meant a permit and a contractor who never showed. Between flood insurance, rising assessments, and turnover, the numbers stopped working. Sell it with the tenant in place if you want — we'll take it exactly as it is, no clean-out, no last coat of paint.
In Orleans Parish, unpaid taxes go to a tax sale, and if the property doesn't sell it gets adjudicated to the City — with a redemption clock and mounting interest. If you're behind and the notices are stacking up, selling now can put cash in your hand before the parish takes it out. We can often close quickly enough to beat the deadline, and you pick the closing date.
Yes. Storm damage, past flooding, raised-slab settling, mold, and unfinished elevation work are normal for us in New Orleans. We factor the condition into a fair cash offer — you don't repair, remediate, or elevate anything before selling.
Cash buyers in New Orleans typically pay about 70-85% of a home's after-repair value. That gap covers the repairs, holding costs, and resale risk a cash buyer takes on instead of a financed buyer. The exact number depends on the home's condition — we show you the figure and how we got to it before you decide, with no obligation.
This is one of the most common situations here. Heir property with a tangled or never-opened succession doesn't have to stop a sale — the succession usually needs to be cleared first, and we can connect you with a local probate attorney and title company who handle this every day. We're patient with the paperwork.
You don't need to keep paying it once you sell to us — we take on the property, zone and all. Whether the house sits in high-risk AE or lower-risk Zone X, the flood-insurance burden becomes ours at closing, not a repair or upgrade you have to make first.
Usually not. We regularly buy properties carrying blight judgments, code liens, or back taxes — those get sorted through the title company at closing. The sooner you reach out, the more room there is to act before the parish moves it further along at tax sale.