You can sell your share of an inherited house on your own.
Most buyers need every heir to sign. We don't — we buy one share.
If you inherited a property along with siblings, cousins, or people you've never met, your share is your own property. In most cases you can sell it without their consent, without their signatures, and without a lawsuit. That's the transaction almost no other buyer will do, and it's the one we're built for.
- No minimum — we buy 1% shares
- You pay nothing, ever
- Notary comes to you, anywhere
- Your co-owners needn't be involved
One unreachable cousin can freeze a house for a decade
A conventional sale needs every single owner to sign. Not most of them — all of them. So an inherited property with six heirs needs six signatures, and any one of the following is enough to stop it dead:
- An heir nobody has spoken to since the funeral
- An heir who simply won't respond, for reasons of their own
- An heir who died since, whose own children now hold the interest
- Two heirs who disagree about price, timing, or whether to sell at all
- An estate that was never probated, so legally nobody yet has the standing to sell
Meanwhile the taxes keep accruing, the roof keeps aging, and whoever has been quietly paying the bills keeps paying them. This is the single most common reason an inherited house sits empty for years — not that the family can't agree on a number, but that they can't assemble the signatures.
Selling your own interest sidesteps all of it. You aren't selling the house; you're selling your share of it, which is yours to sell.
Any size interest, including 1%
There is no minimum share we won't look at. What matters is the dollar amount, not the percentage — a small share of a valuable property is worth considerably more than a large share of a cheap one.
A lot of people never pick up the phone because they've assumed a fractional interest is worthless. It usually isn't worthless. It's illiquid, which is a completely different problem: no ordinary buyer wants to own a piece of a house they can't control, live in, or sell, so nobody bids and the price looks like zero. That gap between "no market" and "no value" is precisely where we work.
- You inherited a house with siblings, cousins, or half-relatives and want out
- Co-owners disagree, won't respond, or can't be located at all
- You've been paying taxes or upkeep the others don't contribute to
- You live out of state and can't manage a property you barely know
- The estate was never probated and you've been told you can't sell
- You'd rather the rest of the family didn't know what you were paid
- You need your share turned into money on a timeline that isn't "eventually"
How an heir buyout actually works
You can stop at any step, and nothing is signed until the last one.
Tell us what you know
Who died, roughly who the heirs are, and what's happened since. You don't need documents or exact answers.
We research the title
Who legally owns what, what's been filed, what's owed, and what your share actually is. At our expense.
We explain the offer
What's owed, what's unresolved, what it takes to fix, and why a share prices the way it does. Ask us anything about it.
We handle the paperwork
Affidavit of heirship, attorney review, recording. You don't need to know what any of it is. We pay for all of it.
A notary comes to you
Wherever you are, in the US or overseas. You sign, you're paid on the agreed terms, and the deed is recorded.
Nothing. And the offer is what you receive.
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We pay every legal cost. Attorney review, paralegal work, affidavit of heirship preparation, notary fees, title research, recording. All of it, whether or not the deal ever closes.
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The figure we agree on is the figure you receive. Nothing comes off it at closing and nothing is trued up afterward. In a normal home sale the offer and the net are two very different numbers, because commission and closing costs come off the top. Here they don't.
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We'll pay for an hour with your own attorney. Yours, of your choosing, and it's written into our offers. If they tell you we've got something wrong, you found that out on our money.
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Paid by cashier's check, wire, or cash — your choice. On terms written into the offer before you sign — usually in full at signing, sometimes structured across signing and closing where the situation is complicated. We won't ask for your bank details in order to make you an offer, and we never ask you to send money anywhere.
What happens to everyone else
They keep their interests. We step into your position as a co-owner and deal with them from there. Nothing about your sale forces anyone else to sell, and nothing about it changes what they own.
They also don't have to know what you were paid. A great many people in this position specifically do not want that conversation, and we can handle our side of it discreetly. If you'd rather we spoke to the others, we'll do that too — some families would genuinely rather one buyer dealt with all of them at once.
We should be straight about our own intention, though: we'd like to end up owning the whole property. After your sale closes we will approach the remaining heirs about buying their shares too. That might take a month or it might take years, it is entirely our problem, and you have no obligation or involvement in any of it once you've been paid. But you should hear it from us rather than work it out later.
And if some of the heirs can't be found, that becomes our problem to solve and our money to spend. Genealogical research, heirship proceedings, service by publication — these are the reasons families give up on properties, and they're the reason our offer is what it is rather than full retail.
The property has to be in Texas. You don't.
We buy in Harris, Galveston, Brazoria, Montgomery, and Fort Bend counties — and that's about where the house is, not where you are.
Heirs scatter. It is entirely normal for us to buy from someone who hasn't seen the property in twenty years, has no intention of ever seeing it again, and lives three time zones or an international border away. We send a licensed mobile notary to you wherever you are, anywhere in the United States or internationally, and we pay for it. You never travel to Texas, visit an office, or arrange anything.
Heir buyout questions
The full list of questions about everything we do is on the questions page.
Can I really sell without my siblings agreeing?
In most cases, yes. When several people inherit a property, each owns an undivided fractional interest in the whole thing — not a specific room or acre, a percentage of all of it. That interest is your own property.
In Texas you can generally sell it without the other co-owners' consent, signatures, or involvement, and without filing a partition suit. What you cannot do alone is sell the whole house — that does need everyone. If your situation is one of the exceptions, we'll tell you rather than let you find out later.
Is there a minimum share you'll buy?
No. We'll look at 1% the same as we'd look at half. The dollar amount is what matters, not the percentage — and the reason your share looks worthless is that it's illiquid, not that it lacks value.
Do I need to open probate first?
Not necessarily. We've bought through active probate, through formal heirship determinations, and through affidavits of heirship. An estate that was never opened is a normal Tuesday for us, not a dealbreaker — and sorting it out is at our cost.
How do I prove I'm an heir?
With less than most people expect. To get started, usually three documents:
- A government-issued photo ID
- A death certificate for the person who died
- Your own birth certificate, to show the family connection
If you have more — a will, probate filings, old deeds, family records — it helps and speeds things up. But you don't need to assemble a file before calling, and you don't need to know what's missing. Working out who legally holds an interest is research we do at our own expense, and it's most of what we're doing in the days after we first speak.
It also doesn't matter whose name is currently on the deed. It's usually still the name of the person who died — that's the normal case, not a complication.
What if there's still a mortgage on the property?
It doesn't stop the deal, but it does change the number.
A mortgage is a real debt secured against the property, and it has to be satisfied before anyone gets at the equity behind it. So it comes out of what a share is worth, the same way back taxes and liens do. We'll show you that arithmetic rather than just handing you a smaller figure and leaving you to wonder.
What we won't do is pretend the debt isn't there, or quote you a number that quietly ignores it. And if the loan is in default or a foreclosure sale is already posted, tell us early — that affects the timeline far more than it affects the price.
Can I sell while probate is already active?
Yes. An interest in an estate can generally be sold while probate is in progress — you don't have to wait for it to conclude. We've bought during active proceedings before, and after you're paid we carry on working within the process on our end.
Why is the offer below market value?
Two reasons, and neither one is a view about what the house is worth.
First, a fraction isn't worth its fraction. A 25% interest is not 25% of the money, because what makes a house valuable is whole ownership — and a share can't be lived in over a co-owner's objection, borrowed against, or sold on the open market. That's set out in full further up this page.
Second, we're buying without title insurance, and that risk is real rather than rhetorical.
No title company will write a policy on a fraction of a property. So when we buy your share we take it as it stands, with whatever is unresolved still unresolved — heirs nobody has located, an estate never opened, a lien nobody has examined. Title and counsel keep working the file afterward because we eventually need a clear commitment ourselves. But eventually is carrying weight in that sentence: it might be three months, it might be several years, and it is not guaranteed to resolve at all.
You're handing that uncertainty to us and taking money now instead of a maybe later. That trade is the entire transaction, and the discount is its price. We'd rather explain where the number comes from than have you assume we plucked it out of the air.
A relative already told someone like you no. Doesn't that end it?
No — because you aren't selling their share. You're selling yours.
One heir refusing to deal doesn't bind the others. If you still want out, we'll buy your seat at that table and make that problem ours. Negotiating with the relative who said no becomes our job, at our expense, on our timeline — and you're paid and finished regardless of how that goes.
That's often exactly why people call us: not because the family agrees, but because it doesn't and never will.
What if I don't know who all the heirs are?
Very common, and it doesn't stop you selling your own share. Establishing who else holds an interest is part of the research we do at our own expense. You are not expected to produce a family tree.
What if the taxes haven't been paid in years?
Also very common — it's often what brings a family to us in the first place. Delinquent taxes get settled out of the purchase, and you don't need to bring the account current or set up a payment plan before talking to us.
Will you contact the other heirs while you're negotiating with me?
No. While we are talking to you, we are talking to you. We don't approach your co-owners, and we don't need their permission or their awareness to buy your share.
Afterward, we will — and we'd rather say so plainly. Once your sale has closed and you've been paid, we start approaching the remaining heirs, because our aim is to own the whole property eventually. That's our business to conduct and you have no part in it, but it isn't a secret.
Will my family find out what I was paid?
Not from us. The deed transferring your interest is recorded publicly, because every deed is, but the price you were paid does not have to appear in it. If confidentiality matters to you, say so at the start and we'll structure it that way.
Find out what your share is worth
One call, no cost, no obligation. Even if you only own a sliver and have assumed for years that it's worth nothing, it costs you nothing to hear a number.