Sell Your House Fast in Sacramento

We hold DRE license #02006033 and operate under Realty Helpers LLC. Every Sacramento property we look at is evaluated by us, not passed to a third-party buyer. No wholesaler in the middle. The offer comes from the people who will sign at closing.

How a cash sale closes in Sacramento County

Every Sacramento sale ends the same way: a deed recorded with the Sacramento County Clerk/Recorder at 3636 American River Drive, Suite 110. Documents presented by 3:00 p.m. on a business day are recorded the same day. The deed has to travel with a Preliminary Change of Ownership Report (form BOE-502-A), or the Recorder adds a $20.00 fee. Sacramento County charges documentary transfer tax of $0.55 for each $500 of value under Revenue and Taxation Code section 11911. Inside Sacramento city limits there is a second tax, the City of Sacramento real property transfer tax under Sacramento City Code section 3.16.020, at 0.00275 of the purchase price ($2.75 per $1,000), collected at recording since September 1, 2013. Houses in Carmichael, Fair Oaks, Orangevale, Arden-Arcade, Rio Linda, Antelope, Rancho Murieta and the rest of the unincorporated county pay the county tax only. Who pays is by agreement between buyer and seller; the FAQ below covers how that works when you sell to us.

Probate and inherited houses in Sacramento

Probate for Sacramento County runs through the Probate Division of the Sacramento County Superior Court, which handles decedents' estates, trusts, guardianships and conservatorships, with e-filing and probate calendar notes posted online. The Probate Unit is reached at (916) 875-3400. Two filings catch heirs by surprise. First, the Sacramento County Assessor treats a death as a change in ownership. The representative has 150 days from the date of death to file a Change in Ownership Statement, Death of Real Property Owner (or files it with the inventory and appraisal if the estate is in probate), and that is required even when the house was held in a trust. Second, when a house passes outside probate to a surviving joint tenant or a successor trustee, title is changed by recording an Affidavit of Death with the Clerk/Recorder, with a certified copy of the death certificate attached. Recording that affidavit does not count as notifying the Assessor. If the estate qualifies for independent administration under the IAEA, we can usually close faster than a court-confirmation sale allows; our guide to court confirmation vs independent administration explains both routes, and our page on selling an inherited house in Sacramento covers the local steps. We work directly with personal representatives, successor trustees and estate attorneys, and we buy inherited houses in Land Park, Curtis Park, Oak Park, South Sacramento and the older suburbs with deferred maintenance, several heirs or a title problem that makes a listing impractical.

Tenant-occupied rentals in Sacramento

Sacramento layers its own rules on top of state law. The City of Sacramento Tenant Protection and Relief Act, Sacramento City Code Chapter 5.156, caps annual rent increases at 5 percent plus the change in CPI, never more than 10 percent; the cap in effect from July 1, 2026 is 8.6 percent. Once a tenant has lived in a covered unit for more than 12 months, the landlord needs one of the chapter's listed just-cause reasons to end the tenancy, and covered units are registered with the City each year at $20 per unit. The chapter exempts units built after February 1, 1995 and "single dwelling units and rental units in a condominium or stock cooperative", so most single-family rentals fall under state law instead: Civil Code section 1946.2 requires just cause after 12 months of occupancy statewide, with its own exemption for separately alienable houses whose owner is not a corporation or REIT and who gave the tenant the required written notice. We buy occupied rentals in the city and the county as they stand. You do not need vacant possession, and we handle the tenancy after closing.

Older Sacramento houses and code issues

Many of the Sacramento houses we buy are older, with foundation movement, aging electrical panels, galvanized plumbing, roof wear, unpermitted additions or an open code case. We buy all of that as-is and do the work after closing. One thing an as-is sale does not remove: California's Transfer Disclosure Statement under Civil Code section 1102 still applies, and the statute says any waiver of it is void as against public policy. We walk through the disclosure with you, and we price the condition in before we make the offer rather than after an inspection. If the City has an open case on the house, see selling a Sacramento house with code violations for how we handle it.

Foreclosure in Sacramento County

A Sacramento foreclosure starts when the lender records a Notice of Default with the Sacramento County Clerk/Recorder, and the Notice of Trustee's Sale is recorded the same way. Both are public: the Recorder's online index is searchable by name, and a copy costs $8.00 for the first page ($9.00 certified). If you have received either notice, our California foreclosure guide lays out the timeline and the options at each stage, and our page on being behind on payments in Sacramento covers the local version. A cash sale that closes before the sale date is one of the ways out.

Divorce and court-ordered sales

Sacramento family law cases are heard at the William R. Ridgeway Family Relations Courthouse, 3341 Power Inn Road. When a divorce settlement or a court order requires the house to be sold, a cash sale gives both spouses one closing date and one number, with no buyer financing to fall through. Our divorce guide covers community property, the automatic restraining orders that apply once a petition is served, and what the court needs to see; our Sacramento divorce house sale page has the local detail.

Where we buy in the Sacramento region

We serve all of Sacramento City and Sacramento County: Midtown, Downtown, East Sacramento, Land Park, Curtis Park, Hollywood Park, Oak Park, Tahoe Park, College Glen, Natomas, Pocket-Greenhaven, Meadowview, Valley Hi, Florin, Rosemont, North Sacramento, Del Paso Heights, Arden-Arcade, Sierra Oaks and Foothill Farms inside and around the city; Carmichael, Fair Oaks, Orangevale, Rio Linda, Antelope, North Highlands, Gold River, Wilton and Rancho Murieta in the unincorporated county; and the cities of Elk Grove, Folsom, Citrus Heights, Rancho Cordova, Galt and Isleton. We also buy in the neighboring counties that make up the Sacramento region: Roseville, Rocklin, Lincoln and Auburn in Placer County, West Sacramento, Davis and Woodland in Yolo County, and El Dorado Hills and Placerville in El Dorado County. If you own a house anywhere in the Sacramento region and want a direct cash offer, call us or fill out the form and we will get back to you within hours.