Selling Mom's house. Settling an estate. Buying with parents' help.
From first keys to final chapters, let's make a smart move.
You're in the right place. The only Des Moines metro realtor holding both SRES® and CPCU® — for senior moves, inherited homes, and life transitions after fifty.
Most people who call me are handling one of three things: a parent who needs to move, a house that came with an estate, or a divorce after fifty. Some are handling two at once.
Iowa probate typically runs six to nine months. A vacant inherited home can trip an insurance vacancy exclusion at day 30 or 60 under most carriers. Whether the basis stepped up changes what the sale costs the heirs.
Those are the questions I raise before the listing goes live — not after.
Before real estate, people called me when their house burned down.
I've seen the damage done when hazards are ignored — a caving roof, warped floorboards, a family of raccoons in the attic. Rather than continuing to work in a field where the damage has already been done, I'd rather catch these things before they happen.
I'm not an inspector, and I don't sell insurance. What I do is know what to flag, and when — usually before you write the offer, not after the report comes back.
That matters in an estate sale where the house has sat empty for eight months. It matters just as much when you're buying your first house in Waukee.
