Why we started this company

Some houses cannot be sold the ordinary way.

Sometimes it is the house.

A kitchen from 1974. A foundation a buyer’s lender will look at once and decline. Water damage nobody wants photographed. Some houses cannot be shown at all — not to strangers, not on a Saturday, not in the state they are in.

Sometimes it is the person.

A parent has gone into care and the house has been shut since. Three siblings in three provinces. A separation where neither of you wants people walking through. A tenant who will not open the door. Nobody has the money, or the weekends, to get a house ready for photographs.

For any of those, let’s list it and see what happens is not an answer. It is months of holding costs and a conversation you have to keep having with people who are already tired.

So we stopped asking people to get a house ready for us. We come and look at it once, tell you what it is worth to us exactly as it stands, and put that in writing. Then the work is ours — the clearing out, the repairs, the months of it — and the house goes back on the market when it is ready.

And if listing would leave you with more money, we say so. We only want the houses we are the right answer for.