A foreclosure on a Chester rowhouse can be hard to sell the usual way. The city's housing includes properties that banks will not finance, and a buyer who needs a mortgage may fall through while the sheriff's sale date moves closer. That is the practical reason many owners look at a cash offer. They want a buyer whose purchase does not depend on a lender's approval.
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Kaizen Home Buyers can offer cash for the house as it stands, with no repairs and no agent commission. An offer arrives within 24 hours, and closing runs 14 to 30 days or on your date. We do not give legal advice and cannot stop a case, so talk to a housing counselor before you decide. Get the payoff figure from your servicer and the sale date from the Sheriff, so you know what you are choosing between.
Delaware County's Sheriff has an office in the Courthouse, Room 101, 201 W. Front St., Media, with a main line of 610-891-4296. The county page links to a separate Real Estate Department page for sheriff sales. Call and ask for the sale date and conditions. Write down the case number and the plaintiff's attorney, because those are the people who can confirm any change. Keep the writ or notice in a folder where you can find it, and write down who you spoke with and when.
PHFA lists repayment, forbearance, payment deferral and HEMAP among possible Pennsylvania retention paths, depending on the loan and the household facts. It says to contact your servicer and a housing counselor as soon as possible. Compare these before treating a sale as inevitable, especially if you have lived in the house for years. If your servicer offers a repayment plan, read the terms closely before agreeing, and ask your counselor how it compares with the other options.
Chester's data points to distressed and vacant city housing and to properties banks will not finance. If your rowhouse or small multifamily falls into that group, a retail listing may take longer than a foreclosure schedule allows. A cash buyer is not waiting on underwriting, but the title company must still check payoffs and the deed before funding. Ask the title company early whether anything else shows on the property, such as taxes, a judgment or a city charge, because those items change the net.
If selling is the plan, send the address and the dates on your paperwork. We review the house as it stands and make a cash offer. On a rowhouse that needs a lot of work, we price the repairs instead of asking you to do them. Then you can set the number beside the payoff and an agent's estimate after commission.
Signing with us does not postpone a thing. Until the lender's attorney or the Sheriff confirms a change in writing, treat every date on your paperwork as real. If the title work allows it, we will aim for a closing day ahead of the sale date. Call or text Kaizen Home Buyers at 267-329-0084.
Call the Sheriff's office at 610-891-4296 and ask for the date, the conditions and the writ number for your address.
PHFA ties the pause to a timely HEMAP application filed within 33 days of an Act 91 notice. If your notice is older than that, ask a housing counselor what is still open to you.
Not by itself. Treat every date as live until the lender's attorney or the Sheriff confirms in writing that something changed.
A cash purchase does not rely on a lender approving the property, so one source of delay is gone. Title and payoff work still apply.
General information, not legal or tax advice. Rules change; confirm details with the office or a professional.
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