Sell an Inherited House in Odessa, Even When the Family Is Not Talking

If you inherited a house in Odessa and it is still in a dead relative’s name, you are exactly who I talk to all day. I’m Raul Bolufe. My company buys inherited houses in Texas, including one heir’s share when the rest of the family is not ready to sell. I’m not a lawyer and this is not legal advice. It is what we have done.

What we buy in Odessa and Ector County

• A whole inherited house, as is, when every heir wants to sell.
• One heir’s share, when the others will not sell, will not answer, or cannot be found.
• Property with back taxes, a tax lawsuit, a lien, or an IRS lien on it.

We also buy in West Odessa, Gardendale, Goldsmith, Penwell, and the rest of the Permian Basin.

You do not need the whole family on board to call me. You do not need to live here either. Plenty of the heirs I talk to are people who moved to Midland or farther.

Three Odessa families we bought from

Walnut Ave: she sold her share from a hospital bed

Three sisters inherited their mother’s house on Walnut Ave in Odessa. One moved in, caught up the taxes, and got pushed out by the other two. They did not speak for ten years.

She reached out to us in July 2026 from a hospital bed hundreds of miles away. A mobile notary went to her room and she signed her third.

Then we made her sisters the same offer, and two weeks later both signed. A family friend living there took cash for keys. Six weeks after her first message, the house was sold.

Both sides of that feud left us five star reviews. Tina wrote:

“I was able to sell the house at the most needed time. It had become such a weight on me from my past, causing nothing but grief. So glad to be rid of it.”

N Sierra Ave: five kids, two marriages, and a lien that was not theirs

A father on N Sierra Ave in Odessa died in early 2024 without a will. He left five children, four daughters from his first marriage and a son from his second.

The title work had snags. One daughter shared a name with somebody who had a tax suit, so she signed a paper saying she was not that person. A large child support lien showed up under a man with a similar name. Different person. It still needed a release.

The daughter we worked with needed 30 days to go through her father’s things. So part of the money was held back at closing, his belongings went into the garage, and we closed in September 2026.

W 6th St: the IRS called me, not the family

A mother passed in 2019 and left three children a small vacant house on W 6th St, with an old IRS lien in her name. Her son signed out of state. Her daughter in Odessa signed at her apartment and found the two affidavit witnesses herself.

Weeks later an IRS revenue officer called me about it. Me, not them. That lien was already in our numbers. Neither heir has written a check to the IRS, and neither one will. We are still looking for the third heir.

What happens when you call

1. You tell me the address and who passed away. That is enough to start.
2. We pull the Ector County records and run a title report. Our own team gets title back within 24 hours, which is a big reason heirs get paid fast.
3. We figure out who owns what.
4. You get a cash offer for your share or for the whole property.
5. You sign with a notary wherever you live. We pay the closing costs.

Back taxes, liens and violations in Odessa

A lot of calls start like this. Nobody paid the taxes after the funeral, and now the county’s tax attorneys have filed suit against the whole family.

That is not the end. Once you sell to us, the back taxes, the liens and the violations become our problem. We call, we negotiate, and we pay them. Liens are a normal Tuesday for my team.

More on this: selling an inherited house with back taxes in Texas and selling an inherited house with a lien.

A tax suit will not wait. Once the county sets a sale date, heirs who have not sold usually get nothing. If there is a date on your paperwork, call before it.

What your share is worth

It depends on the size of the property, its condition, what is owed on it, and how many heirs there are. For one heir’s share, that is usually a few hundred to a few thousand dollars. When the whole family sells together, you get one cash offer for the house as it sits, and we handle the cleanup.

Some houses owe more than they are worth. If yours is one, I will say so on the first call.

New to all of this? Start with my plain words guide to selling your share of an inherited house in Texas.

The short version

• We buy inherited houses anywhere in Odessa and the rest of Ector County, whole or one share at a time.
• You do not need every heir to agree, and you do not need to live in Texas.
• Back taxes, liens and even an IRS lien become our problem once you sell.
• Title comes back in about 24 hours, so things move fast.
• A tax sale date is a deadline. Call before it.

Call or text me at 936-380-6384, or fill out the form. Give me the address in Odessa and tell me who passed away, and I’ll tell you what we can do.