We Buy Houses in Florence, SC

Yes. Every residential closing in South Carolina, cash or financed, has to be supervised by a licensed attorney, so a closing attorney still runs your title search, prepares the deed, and disburses funds when you sell to us. Home Pros pays that attorney's fee. If you list with an agent instead, that cost is typically yours.

It depends what you're transferring. South Carolina lets an heir collect a decedent's personal property, things like bank accounts or a vehicle title, by sworn affidavit without opening full probate, when the personal-property estate is worth $45,000 or less and at least 30 days have passed since the death (S.C. Code Section 62-3-1201, threshold raised from $25,000 by Act No. 26, effective May 8, 2025). That affidavit does not transfer real estate on its own, so a Florence house almost always still needs the Florence County Probate Court to appoint a personal representative before a sale can close. We can put a written offer on the table while that appointment is pending.

South Carolina is a judicial foreclosure state, so a lender has to sue and get a court order before a home can be sold. Once the circuit court confirms the default, the case moves to the county's Master-in-Equity court, and statewide the process typically runs about 150 days from filing to the public sale. Before that sale, notice has to be posted in three public places and published in a local newspaper once a week for three straight weeks (S.C. Code Sections 15-39-650 and 15-39-660), and sales are usually scheduled for the first Monday of the month. We can often make a cash offer and close before that date, which stops the foreclosure and can protect any equity you have left.

In most private sales, yes. Selling as-is does not exempt you from South Carolina's Residential Property Condition Disclosure Act (S.C. Code Title 27, Chapter 50); you still owe a buyer a written disclosure of known defects. The law does carve out transfers by court order, including foreclosure sales and sales handled through estate administration. When you sell to Home Pros, we buy knowing the home's condition up front, so there is no post-inspection repair-credit negotiation.

Yes. Florence County sits along the Great Pee Dee and Lynches Rivers, and river flooding after a hurricane, rather than coastal storm surge, is the local risk here; Hurricane Florence pushed the Great Pee Dee to nearly 32 feet in September 2018 and damaged dozens of county homes. We buy houses with flood, water, or mold damage as-is and build the repair cost into our offer, so you don't have to file an insurance claim or spend anything before you sell.

Reach out as soon as you can. We can often put an offer together and close before your lender files suit, or before a Master-in-Equity sale date if a case is already underway, which can stop the process and preserve whatever equity you still have.

Once the closing attorney disburses funds, you get a wire the same day. There's no multi-week wait for a buyer's mortgage lender to fund, the way there is in a financed sale.

We buy throughout the city, from the Downtown Florence Historic District and the streets around McLeod Regional Medical Center to the growing subdivisions off Pamplico Highway and West Palmetto Street, plus the surrounding Pee Dee towns of Darlington, Hartsville, Lake City, and Timmonsville.

Yes, including houses near Francis Marion University with student tenants and long-term rentals where the tenant has stopped paying. You do not need to evict anyone or wait for a lease to end before you get an offer.

Correct. We pay the closing attorney's fee and standard closing costs, and there's no real estate commission since no agent is involved. The number in your purchase agreement is what you walk away with, minus anything you still owe on the property.

We start with the home's likely after-repair value based on recent comparable sales in your part of Florence County, subtract our estimate of repair costs, and subtract a margin that covers holding costs, closing costs, and resale risk. What's left is your cash offer, and we'll walk through the math with you before you sign anything.

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