I’m Raul Bolufe. My company buys the shares of individual heirs in inherited houses across Texas and Florida. Not the whole house. Your share. If you own 50 percent, 14 percent, or 1 percent of a house that used to belong to your mother, your grandfather, or an aunt who died without a will, I will make you a cash offer for exactly that piece and pay you within days of recording the deed.
This page explains how it works, what your share is actually worth, and what happens to the rest of the family after you sell. Everything here comes from deals we have closed. Where I use an example, the county and the situation are real. The names are not. I am not a lawyer and none of this is legal advice. It is what we have seen doing this every week.
The one thing most heirs get wrong
Almost everyone who calls me believes the same thing: “We all have to agree before anyone can sell.”
That is not how it works. When someone dies and the house passes to more than one heir, each heir owns a piece of the whole thing. You do not own the kitchen and your brother the garage. You each own a percentage. And a percentage can be sold on its own, by deed, without anyone else’s signature. Every deal we do starts exactly that way, one heir, one notary, one deed.
What you cannot do alone is sell the entire house. That is why the house has been sitting there. One sibling wants to sell. One wants to keep it. One is in another state and stopped answering the phone. The taxes keep piling up, and nobody can move.
Selling your share breaks that deadlock. You get paid. The other heirs keep their shares. We become the new co-owner and we deal with them from there.
Who this is for
You are probably in one of these situations. We have bought shares in every one of them.
- The house is still in the name of someone who died. Nobody opened probate. Nobody did an affidavit of heirship. It has been years.
- One heir lives in the house rent free and will not sell, will not pay taxes, and will not leave.
- A sibling or cousin cannot be found. The last address anyone has is ten years old.
- The family has been fighting about the house since the funeral and you want out.
- Back taxes are owed and the county has filed suit or set a sale date.
- You live out of state and have never seen the property.
- There is a mortgage still in the deceased person’s name.
- You own a tiny slice. Someone told you it was worthless. It is not.
What your share is worth
Here is the honest math. Your share is not the market value of the house multiplied by your percentage. Nobody will pay you that. Here is why.
A partial interest cannot be lived in, rented out, or financed by itself. The buyer takes on the taxes, the other heirs, the legal work to clear title, and the risk that a holdout never signs. All of that comes off the top before anyone sees a dollar.
So the offer on your share is based on three things:
- What the house will actually sell for as is, after back taxes and liens are paid.
- How many other heirs there are and how hard they will be to reach.
- How much legal work it takes to get the title clean enough to sell.
Real examples from our files. On a nine heir piece of land in San Jacinto County with a tax sale set for the following week, every heir got the same cash amount and every one of them signed. On an Odessa house split among eight heirs across four generations, each heir was paid a flat amount up front with a bonus if the last two signed within 30 days. On an Abilene house with two heirs, one brother in Florida sold his half for cash and had a check with tracking in his mailbox 12 days after he signed.
Depending on the size of the deal, the property, the condition, and how complicated the family is, an heir’s share usually comes to a few hundred to a few thousand dollars, paid within days of recording, with no fees taken out.
Small shares are worth something too. On one Fort Bend County deal, a co-owner spent months insisting he owned 100 percent of the house. He did not. Once he understood that the back taxes came off the top and his piece was a fraction, he agreed to a number within a week.
I will tell you the number on the phone. If it does not work for you, you have lost 15 minutes.
How the process works
Step 1. Call or text 936-380-6384, or fill out the form. Tell me the property address, who passed away, and how you are related to them. If you know how many other heirs there are, great. If you do not, we will figure it out.
Step 2. We verify you are an heir. We need your ID, the death certificate if you have it, and something that ties you to the person who died, usually a birth certificate. If there is a will, send it. If there is not, that is fine. Most of the people we buy from had no will at all.
Step 3. We pull the title. Our team researches the deed history, the tax status, any liens, and who else is in the chain of heirs. This is where we catch the problems: a lien that is not what the family thinks it is, a sibling nobody mentioned, a tax sale date next month.
Step 4. You get a cash offer within 24 hours of us having the documents. No obligation.
Step 5. You sign a deed with a mobile notary. We send the notary to you. Your house, your job, a coffee shop, another state. Rural county with no notary willing to drive? We have paid one to make the trip.
Step 6. The deed gets recorded and you get paid. Wire, Zelle, cashier’s check, whatever you want. In most counties recording is electronic and takes a day. A few Texas counties still do not accept e-recording, so our notary drives the deed to the courthouse. On the San Jacinto deal that meant all nine deeds recorded 21 days after first contact.
The fastest we have done it: 13 days from first contact to the heir being paid, on a Montgomery County house where the share was held in a trust.
What happens after you sell
This is the part other buyers do not explain.
Once you sell, we own your share. We become a co-owner with the rest of your family. From that point forward, the taxes, the liens, the code violations, the holdouts, the lawyer letters, the missing cousin, the sibling who will not move out, are our problem and not yours. Your name comes off the deed and you are done.
The liens are a bigger deal than people realize. Families give up houses over a lien letter every week. We do not. We call the lien holder and negotiate. We have taken a $36,000 child support lien down to $5,000 and a $25,000 one down to $4,000. We have had a city demolition order lifted on a house in Brazoria County. A big number on a letter is where the conversation starts, not where it ends.
We then do what the family could not. We make offers to the remaining heirs. We track down the ones nobody could find. And when someone refuses to respond at all, our attorneys take it to court. We have done this in Brazoria County, Ector County, Taylor County, and Harris County. Almost all of them settle, because once a holdout gets served they usually decide the fight is not worth it.
If you are the heir who wants to keep the house, understand that your sibling selling to us does not put you on the street. It puts a co-owner at the table who will either buy you out, sell to you, or split the proceeds fairly when the house sells.
Why heirs choose us
- We only do this. Since 2012 I have closed hundreds of real estate transactions, and for the last several years my company has focused on one thing: buying heir interests. We have helped more than 100 individual heirs across more than 45 properties.
- We buy any size share. 50 percent or 1 percent. Trusts, estates, minors with a guardian, heirs in prison, heirs overseas. We have handled each of these.
- No fees to you. We pay for the title work, the deed, the notary, the recording, and the attorneys. Your number is your number.
- We move fast because we have the money. No bank, no appraisal, no waiting on a lender.
- I am not a call center. You will talk to me or to someone on my small team, and you will get the same person next time.
- Hablamos Español.
Questions heirs ask me
Can I sell my share without telling the other heirs?
Legally, yes. You do not need their permission or their signature. In practice we tell them after we record the deed, because we are now their co-owner and we want to make them an offer too.
Do I need to go through probate first?
Not to sell to us. Most of the families we buy from never opened probate. If the title needs an affidavit of heirship to be clean, we prepare and record it at our cost. You may be asked to sign it or to help us find two people who knew the family for ten years or more, which is normal.
What if the house has a mortgage?
We buy shares in houses with mortgages. The loan stays on the property and we deal with the lender.
What if there are back taxes?
Most of the houses we buy have back taxes, often years of them. We pay them as part of clearing the title. If a tax sale is already scheduled, call now. We have stopped sales with days to spare, but not with hours.
What if I already signed something at the tax office or with a relative?
Send it to us. Half the time it does not mean what the family thinks it means.
Do I have to pay income tax on the money?
Ask a tax preparer. I am not one. What I can tell you is that it has not been a problem for the heirs we have worked with, and if it comes up we will point you to someone who can answer it properly.
Can you buy the share of an heir who is a minor, in prison, or incapacitated?
Yes, with the right paperwork. A minor needs a court appointed guardian. A person in prison needs the facility to allow a notary, which the family usually has to request. We have done both.
Ready to find out what your share is worth?
Call or text 936-380-6384. Tell me the address and who passed away. I will give you a number within 24 hours of seeing the paperwork, and if you take it, you can have money in your account within days of recording.
Or fill out the form below and I will call you.