Sell an Inherited House in Houston, Even When the Paperwork Is a Mess

If you inherited a house in Houston 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 Houston

• 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.
• A house where the owner is alive but cannot get to a closing table.
• Property with back taxes, a tax lawsuit, a lien, or code violations on it.

We buy all over Harris County. Pasadena, Baytown, Humble, Spring, Tomball, Cypress, Channelview, and every Houston neighborhood inside the loop and out.

You do not need the whole family on board to call me. You do not need to live here either.

Two Houston families we bought from

Maywood Drive: three sisters and no death certificate

Their father passed away at 61. He left a house on Maywood Drive in Houston with a couple of years of back taxes on it, and his three daughters owned it together. They all wanted to sell. No fight at all.

The fight was paperwork. The title company wanted a death certificate, and the family could not produce one. Our team worked it from two directions until the certificate came through. It got done.

All three sisters signed one package, and one of them signed the affidavit of heirship. The house sold on May 27, about three and a half months after we first reached out. Our attorneys cleaned up the title along the way, and that cost us money, not the sisters.

E Jacinto Drive: nobody died, the owner was in jail

The man on the deed was alive, but he was in jail, and his wife needed to sell. Her name was not on the deed, so she could not sign for him.

We set up three way calls with the jail so he heard the offer and the paperwork straight from us. He signed a power of attorney naming his wife, and she signed the sale for him. Before we relied on it, we compared the notary’s signature against a deed he had signed about a year earlier. Same notary.

We closed at a title company with title insurance in January 2026.

Nobody has ever called me because their inheritance was going smoothly. That is fine. The messy ones are the job.

What happens when you call

1. You tell me the address and who passed away. That is enough to start.
2. We pull the Harris 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. Most families are surprised by the answer.
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 tax lawsuits in Houston

A lot of the calls I get start the same way. Nobody has paid the taxes since the funeral, and now there is a tax lawsuit with a stack of names on it.

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.

What a tax suit will not do is wait. When the county sets a sale date, the heirs who have not sold usually get nothing from the auction. If there is a date on your paperwork, call before it, not after.

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.

We will tell you straight if we cannot help. Some properties owe more than they are worth, and I would rather say so on the first call than waste your month.

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 Houston, whole or one share at a time.
• You do not need every heir to agree, and you do not need to live in Texas.
• A missing death certificate or an owner who cannot sign is a step, not a wall.
• Back taxes, liens and violations become our problem once you sell.
• 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 Houston address and tell me who passed away, and I’ll tell you what we can do.