Sell a house with water damage or mold in Maryland

Water is the most common thing that turns a normal Maryland house into a hard sale. A finished basement that flooded in a summer storm, a pipe that froze while the house was empty, a roof leak that ran for a year, or the flood history that follows a house in Ellicott City’s historic district. Once mold shows up, most buyers and every lender walk. We do not.

You do not have to remediate first

Mold remediation quotes in Maryland run from a few thousand dollars for a wall section to tens of thousands for a whole basement, and the remediation is only half of it: the water source has to be fixed too or the mold comes back. We buy the house with the water problem and the mold as they stand, price the fix into our offer, and hire the remediation and the repair ourselves after closing. You do not spend money on a house you are selling.

Maryland disclosure, handled honestly

Maryland sellers give buyers either a property disclosure or a disclaimer statement, and even on a disclaimer you have to tell a buyer about latent defects you actually know about. Water intrusion and mold are exactly that. Tell us what you know, we put it in the contract, and there is nothing to come back on you later. We are not going to be surprised by a water stain; it is why we are there.

The situations we see most

• Finished basements that flooded. Drywall, carpet and framing wet for weeks before anyone noticed.
• Vacant houses with a frozen pipe. Often inherited houses that sat empty over a winter.
• Roof leaks in older houses. Silver Spring brick colonials, Dundalk rowhomes, Ellicott City stone.
• Flood-map properties. Houses near the Tiber and Patapsco in Ellicott City that lenders and insurers treat as high risk.