Sell your Westdale house as-is — no repairs, no cleaning

Most of the bungalows and bi-levels on Westdale's quiet streets went up in the 1960s and 70s, and a good number are still in original or lightly updated condition — serviceable, but showing their age. That's exactly the kind of house that's hard to list: on a modest 950-to-1,200-square-foot home a few blocks from the Westdale Community Club, a new roof, windows, and flooring can easily cost more than they add back to the sale price. Buyers shopping these quiet streets off the McPhillips corridor tend to want move-in-ready, and financed offers on a dated house have a way of falling apart after the inspection. We buy Westdale houses exactly as they sit — original kitchen, tired shingles, whatever has piled up in the back-lane garage, all of it. You don't clean, you don't repair, and you don't pay commissions or fees. And if your house is already in solid shape, we'll say so plainly — listing with a REALTOR would likely net you more, and we're fine being the option you compared against.

Westdale's housing stock is now fifty to sixty years old, and homes that were affordable starters for working-class families in the 1970s are hitting the point where the big-ticket items — roofs, furnaces, sewer lines — come due all at once. At this price range, every dollar spent on repairs competes directly with your walk-away number, and a commission comes off the top of a modest sale price — which is why sellers of dated Westdale houses give as-is offers a serious look.