Where our construction experience helps with your repairs
A house that needs repairs sits in the gap between what a buyer's lender will finance and what an owner can afford to fix. That gap is where we work, and we have worked it on Long Island for years.
We buy in any condition. We do not ask for repairs to be made first, we do not ask for the house to be cleaned, and we will not use an inspection to renegotiate afterward. If the repairs turn out to be modest enough that listing would serve you better, we will tell you that too.
As-is, and the repairs we will not ask you to make
As-is gets used loosely, so here is what it means when we say it. Whatever repairs the house needs, they become ours at closing. Leave the furniture, leave the contents of the basement, leave the roof alone.
Sellers sometimes spend a weekend and a few hundred dollars tidying before we visit, and we would rather they did not. The condition is priced into the offer once, at the start, and cleaning up ahead of the visit does not move the number.
Why local knowledge changes the number
The Hicksville median has barely moved year over year as of 2026-10, at 3%. Flat is the hardest market to price a fixer into, because there is no upward drift to cover a mistake and no urgency pushing buyers to overlook a problem. A $751,865 median puts Hicksville in the band where buyers are stretching to afford the house and have nothing left for the roof. That is precisely the buyer who walks away from a property needing work, and it is why condition matters more here than the price alone suggests. The median house here goes under contract in about 33 days, which is quick for Long Island. It is also a figure that only applies to property in showable condition.
Hicksville is roughly 43,869 people in Nassau County, ZIP 11801, and the housing stock is mostly cape cod, ranch, hi-ranch. Around Broadway and Old Country Road, most of it is old enough that the mechanicals are on their second or third life. The Hicksville stop pulls buyers who commute, which supports the good houses and does very little for the ones that need a roof. We have been buying across Nassau County for 15+ years. We know what the Hicksville Union Free School District does to a resale price, which blocks still have oil tanks in the ground, and what a house like yours is actually worth here.
What the repairs really cost once you count the carry
There are two prices for any house that needs repairs: what it fetches today, and what it might fetch once the repairs are done. The gap between them is not profit. That gap has to cover the repairs, the time, the carrying costs, and the risk that the work uncovers something worse.
That last risk is real on older Hicksville stock. Opening a wall to fix one thing regularly finds two more, and a homeowner funding repairs out of pocket has no cushion for it.
How we can profit on repairs a Hicksville owner would lose money on
We run millions of dollars of construction a year. That buys materials at contractor pricing and keeps crews working steadily rather than bidding for one-off jobs, and the result is that the same repairs cost us roughly half what a homeowner pays to have them done.
That is the whole reason this works. A homeowner paying retail for pre-sale repairs usually cannot recover the cost out of the sale price. We can do the identical work for about half and still leave room in the number, which is why we can buy a house that needs repairs nobody else wants to take on.
How selling a house sold as-is in Hicksville works
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You tell us about the house
An address in 11801 and a rough idea of condition. Two minutes on the phone or the form. We do not need photographs, a clean house, or anything fixed first.
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One short visit
One of us comes by once, usually for less than half an hour. On a cape cod or ranch like most of Hicksville, what we look at closely is the roof, the boiler and the wiring, not the finishes.
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You see the number
Within a day you get our offer as one written figure. Get a Nassau County agent's opinion alongside it if that helps. For a house that could go on the market as it stands, listing may come out ahead, and we will tell you if so.
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You choose when to close
Soon, or months away if probate, a tenant or your next move has to come first. You also avoid the 78 to 93 days a listed Hicksville house typically takes to find a buyer and get through the buyer's mortgage.
Lender repairs versus pretty repairs
The repairs that matter to a sale are the ones an appraiser or an underwriter will flag. Everything else is a negotiation about taste.
Walk your list with us and we will tell you which is which. What we will not tell you is that every repair pays for itself, because it does not. A homeowner paying retail for repairs and recovering them at market rarely comes out ahead, and anybody promising otherwise has work to sell you.
The kind of houses Hicksville actually has
Hicksville is largely cape cod, ranch, hi-ranch stock, much of it built long enough ago that the mechanicals are on their second or third life. Boilers, wiring, roofs, and one bathroom last touched decades ago.
That is ordinary here, and none of it is a reason for us to walk away. Houses of that age come with repairs attached. We have bought plenty of them in Nassau County and we price the repairs rather than react to them.
What you do not pay when you sell a house sold as-is
Listing a house sold as-is the usual way brings each of these costs with it. Selling to us brings none of them.
- Agent commission
- $37,593 at 5% of the Hicksville median none
- Seller closing costs
- About $15,037 on a $751,865 sale. We can cover these. none
- Repairs to make it listable
- Whatever it takes to make it listable, paid in advance none
- Cleanout and removal
- Paid per load, before a single buyer walks through none
- Carrying costs while it waits
- Taxes, insurance and utilities while you spend 78 to 93 days finding a buyer and waiting for their loan none
What to do before you commit to repairs on a Hicksville house
The order matters. Owners who price the repairs first and the house second often find they have already spent money the sale will never return.
We will give you a written number on a Hicksville house as it stands, plus our read on what the repairs would genuinely cost and whether this market would pay for them. No obligation attached, and no call the following week asking whether you have decided.
Common questions
Can you sell a house as-is?
You can, and to a cash buyer it is the normal way to sell. The price already accounts for the condition, so there is no repair list and no renegotiation after an inspection. Selling as-is is about repairs, not paperwork. Whatever disclosure a Nassau County seller owes still applies, and your attorney is the one to confirm it.
How bad does a Hicksville house have to be before you walk away?
There is no condition threshold. Repairs are a line item for us rather than a decision point, because we do this work constantly. Tell us the worst of it and we will still come and look.
Should I get my own inspection?
You are welcome to, but you do not need one for us. We price the repairs ourselves, and we are not going to use an inspection to renegotiate after the fact.
Will you ask for a credit for the repairs after the inspection?
No. The repairs are priced into the offer when we make it. A number that moves after the fact is exactly what sellers in this position are trying to get away from, and we know that.
Would I do better making the repairs and listing?
Sometimes, and we will tell you when we think so. It depends on which repairs, what they cost you at retail, and whether the market rewards them. Get the as-is number first so you are comparing two real figures.
Can you point me to a contractor if I decide to make the repairs?
We can. If you decide the repairs are worth making, we would far rather you used somebody reliable than whoever answers the phone first. Ask us and we will tell you who we would call.