Sell an inherited house in Garden City for cash

Many of the bungalows and bi-levels on Garden City's curved crescents have been in the same hands since they were built in the 1960s and 1970s, and when a parent passes, the home often comes to the family in close-to-original condition. We regularly work with executors and adult children settling estates in the blocks around McPhillips and Jefferson — often after years of helping mum or dad through appointments at Seven Oaks Hospital and, eventually, a planned move into care that the family ended up finishing. A dated 950-to-1,200-square-foot bungalow that hasn't seen a new kitchen since construction is a hard thing to list, especially while probate is still working its way through the Manitoba Court of King's Bench. We buy these homes exactly as they stand: no clearing out the basement first, no renovations, no strangers walking through during showings. You get a written cash offer within 24 hours, and we can close through your lawyer in as little as 7 days — or wait until the grant of probate is in hand, whichever your timeline needs. And if the home has been fully updated, we'll tell you honestly that listing with a REALTOR will probably net the estate more.

Garden City's first generation of owners is now in their seventies and eighties, and many of the neighbourhood's estate sales begin as a move to assisted living that becomes an estate file instead. That leaves heirs — often settled elsewhere in Winnipeg or out of province — holding an original-condition home that needs more updating than anyone wants to fund from an estate account.