Sell your house fast in Severna Park, Maryland.

Need to sell your house fast in Severna Park? Old Line Home Buyers buys Anne Arundel County houses for cash, as-is, with no repairs, no fees, and no commissions. You get a written offer, usually within a day, and you pick the closing date.

Severna Park is the Route 2 corridor at its most expensive, and its problem houses are expensive problems: a Round Bay or Manhattan Beach cottage that grew into a year round house without permits, a Chartwell or Ben Oaks colonial on a septic system near the water, a Berrywood or Shipley’s Choice split-level a parent owned for forty years. A lender balks at each of those. We do not.

We buy Severna Park waterfront and inland houses in any condition, on septic or sewer, inside the Critical Area or not, with open permit questions still open.

Septic, the Critical Area, and why financed sales fall apart here

Large parts of Severna Park sit outside the sewer service area and run on private wells and septic systems. Every lender requires a septic inspection before settlement, and a system within 1,000 feet of tidal water sits inside the Chesapeake Bay Critical Area, where a failed system usually has to be replaced with a nitrogen removing unit that costs several times a conventional one. Add the county’s Critical Area limits on lot coverage and expansion, and flood zone insurance on the water, and a Round Bay or Cape Arthur house can lose two financed buyers in a row. We order the septic inspection ourselves, buy the house with the system as it sits, and replace it after closing.

The cottage that became a house

A lot of Severna Park waterfront started as a summer cottage and was winterized, expanded and lifted over the decades, not always with a permit. Open permits and unpermitted additions show up in a title search or an appraisal and stop a retail sale cold. We buy the house with the permit questions still open and resolve them with the county after closing. Our guide to selling a house with an open permit or unpermitted work explains what the county can and cannot do about it.

Forty year owners in Berrywood and Shipley’s Choice

The inland neighborhoods, Berrywood, Shipley’s Choice, Chartwell, Ben Oaks, Linstead and Severna Forest, are colonials and split-levels from the 1960s through the 80s, and many have had one owner. When that owner passes, the heirs are often looking at an original kitchen, a roof past its life and a house full of belongings. Estates are opened with the Register of Wills at 8 Church Circle in Annapolis, creditors get six months from the date of death to file claims, and the personal representative can sell without a separate court order in most estates. We buy mid-probate, with the contents left inside. The steps are in our guide to selling an inherited house in Maryland.

The numbers, and what listing would net

Anne Arundel charges $7 per $1,000 in recordation tax plus a 1% county transfer tax under $1 million and 1.5% above it, and Maryland adds 0.5%. On a Severna Park price those lines matter, and a licensed Maryland title company calculates and pays every one from closing funds. The principals of Old Line Home Buyers are licensed Maryland agents, and on a house that only needs cosmetics, listing usually nets more here. We say so in writing when it does. The timeline is at sell my house fast in Anne Arundel County, how to vet a buyer is at cash home buyers in Anne Arundel County, and every county rule is on the Anne Arundel County page. Neighbors in Pasadena and Annapolis face the same Critical Area rules.