Sell your Hialeah house. As-is. For cash.

You inherited the house on West 4th Avenue, the carport's been a bedroom since 1982, the city's been mailing notices, and four siblings are on the deed. Get a no-obligation cash offer in 24 hours. Hablamos español. Close in 7 days.

Why Sell to Byron in Hialeah

• Hablamos español todos los días. Byron's team takes calls in Spanish, walks properties in Spanish, and signs closing documents in Spanish. No Google Translate. No "let me get back to you with someone who speaks the language." You talk to a buyer in your language from the first call.
• We know Hialeah's housing stock cold. 1950s–70s CBS block, jalousie windows, flat tar-and-gravel roofs, terrazzo floors under three layers of tile, original electric panels with copper-clad aluminum branch wiring. We've bought enough of these houses that we don't flinch at the inspection.
• Code violations don't kill our offer. Unpermitted Florida rooms, enclosed carports, mother-in-law efficiencies in the back, illegal kitchens — we buy them. We negotiate the City of Hialeah accrued-fine liens after closing instead of asking you to clear them first.
• Multi-heir probate is our normal. "La casa de mi abuela" with six grandchildren on the deed is a Wednesday for us. We coordinate with your probate attorney, pay a refundable deposit while summary administration works through the court, and get every heir paid at closing.
• 15 years, 500+ Florida closings. BBB A+ accredited. 4.9★ from 87+ Google reviews. Family-owned — you talk to Byron, not a call center, not a wholesaler chain.
• We pay the title insurance. Miami-Dade custom puts title on the seller. We pick it up on most deals. The number we offer is closer to the number you keep than any wholesaler quote.
• No fees, no commissions, no repairs, no cleanout. Leave what you don't want — the deep freezer in the Florida room, the kids' beds, the boxes in the garage. We handle it.

How It Works in Hialeah

Step 1 — Submit the address. Call 951-331-3844, text, or fill the form. Tell us in English or Spanish. We pull title, the Miami-Dade Property Appraiser record, the City of Hialeah open-permit history, the code-enforcement docket, and any recorded lis pendens before we ever set foot on the property.

Step 2 — Walkthrough and offer in 24 hours. Byron or a teammate meets you at the house — West Hialeah, East Hialeah, Country Club, Palm Springs, Hialeah Gardens, Westview, anywhere in 33010 / 33012 / 33013 / 33014 / 33015 / 33016 / 33018. We look at the roof, the panel, the slab, the additions, and the back lot. Same day or next morning, you get a written cash offer with no obligation.

Step 3 — Close in 7 days at a Miami-Dade title company. We use the FAR/BAR As-Is contract (ASIS-7), waive financing, waive inspection contingencies, and fund at any reputable Miami-Dade title attorney's office. You pick the date. Wire hits the same day the deed records.

Situations We Buy in Hialeah

• Inherited houses — la casa de mi abuela with multiple heirs, no will, deed still in the decedent's name, family scattered between Hialeah, Tampa, and Hialeah Cubans living back on the island.
• Probate — formal administration (Ch. 733) for estates over $75,000, summary administration (§735.201) for smaller estates or decedents gone more than two years. We coordinate with your probate lawyer on Personal Representative authority under §733.607.
• Code violations — City of Hialeah Code Enforcement NOVs, $250/day accruing fines, unpermitted Florida room enclosures, illegal carport bedrooms, second kitchens, work without permits dating back to the 1980s, missed mitigation hearings.
• Foreclosure — pre-suit, post-lis-pendens, after summary judgment, even with a clerk's sale on the calendar — as long as the certificate of sale hasn't filed under §45.0315, you can still cash out the equity instead of losing it.
• Single-family CBS block houses — the classic 1950s–70s Hialeah three-bed two-bath built on slab with a flat roof and a converted carport.
• Multi-family / duplexes / triplexes — tenant-occupied, month-to-month, even with one unit vacant and one with a problem renter you've been afraid to evict.
• Tax-lien properties — Miami-Dade tax certificates sold June 1, redemption windows under §197.472, tax-deed applications filed and pending under §197.502.
• Hurricane-damaged roofs — post-Wilma, post-Irma, post-Ian repairs that never got finished, open insurance claims, denied claims, AOB disputes.
• Tired-landlord rentals — long-term tenants, deferred maintenance, Section 8, problem tenants, accumulated repair backlog.
• Hoarder situations — full house, garage, back yard, shed. We buy as-is, contents included, you take what matters and walk away from the rest.
• Divorce sales — exclusive use orders, lis pendens under §48.23, court-ordered sales under Ch. 61.

Hialeah Local Section

Hialeah is the sixth-largest city in Florida and one of the most distinctive housing markets in the country. The 2020 Census put the population at 223,109, and 95.6% of residents are Hispanic — the highest concentration of any large U.S. city. The Cuban-American community has anchored Hialeah since the Mariel boatlift, with second- and third-generation families now holding the deeds their parents and grandparents bought in the 1960s and 70s.

That demographic reality drives the housing situation. The typical Hialeah single-family home is a 1950s–70s CBS (concrete block stucco) ranch on a 5,500–7,500 square-foot lot, three bedrooms, one or two bathrooms, flat tar-and-gravel roof, jalousie windows that nobody's replaced, terrazzo floors hiding under decades of tile and carpet. Most of these houses have been in the same family for thirty, forty, fifty years. Mom and Dad bought it for $18,000 in 1971. Today's appraisal is $475,000. The mortgage was paid off two presidents ago.

Then somebody died. Sometimes there's a will, often there isn't. The deed still says "Maria Hernandez y Roberto Hernandez, husband and wife." Maria passed in 2019. Roberto passed in 2023. The four kids — one in Hialeah, one in Tampa, one in Las Vegas, one back in Havana — own it as tenants in common under §732.103, and nobody's filed for probate because nobody wants to spend $4,000 with a lawyer to sell a house they think will get sold "eventually." Meanwhile the City of Hialeah is mailing notices about the carport that got walled in around 1985 to make a bedroom for the youngest, the homestead exemption is being challenged because nobody actually lives there full-time, and the property taxes have nearly doubled since Save Our Homes stopped applying.

This is the Hialeah cash-buyer reality. Almost every deal we touch has at least two of: multiple heirs, an open probate, an unpermitted addition, a code-enforcement file, a lapsed homestead, a deferred-maintenance roof, and at least one family member who needs the conversation in Spanish. Wholesalers from Brickell don't know how to thread that needle. Out-of-state iBuyers run away from anything with title hair. Byron's team does this every week.

Neighborhoods we buy in: West Hialeah (33012, 33016) — the quieter west-side blocks past West 49th Street, deeper lots, more of the original 1960s tract housing. East Hialeah (33010, 33013) — older, denser, closer to Okeechobee Road and the Hialeah Park Race Track, more 1940s–50s construction. Hialeah Gardens (33016, 33018) — the incorporated city west of the Palmetto Expressway, newer 80s–90s stock alongside older parcels. Country Club (33015, 33018) — northwest Hialeah around the Hialeah Country Club, larger lots, some pool homes. Westview (33015) — north of Country Club, mix of older single-family and 1990s townhomes. Palm Springs (33012) — central Hialeah, classic mid-century block, walking distance to Palmetto General Hospital. We also buy across the city line in Miami Springs, Medley, and the unincorporated pockets around West 4th and West 8th Avenue.

Schools, anchors, and what people actually search for: Hialeah High (the original 1925 school), Hialeah-Miami Lakes High, American Senior High in Miami Lakes, Hialeah Senior High, Mater Academy charter network, Palmetto General Hospital, Hialeah Hospital, Westland Mall, Amelia Earhart Park, Milander Park, Hialeah Park Racing & Casino, the Tri-Rail Hialeah Market station. Sellers often ask if "the school district" matters to our offer — for a cash investor it doesn't move the number, which is why we can buy at any address in the city.

Why families sell instead of holding. The instinct in a Cuban-American Hialeah family is to keep the house. Mom and Dad worked two jobs to pay it off. The grandkids learned to walk in the back yard. Selling feels like erasing forty years of history. But the math has changed. Insurance premiums on a 1965 CBS house with a 22-year-old roof and original electrical now run $4,500–$8,000 a year — if you can find a carrier that'll write it at all. Citizens Property Insurance is a last-resort policy under §627.351(6) and the takeout/depopulation rules force homeowners to accept private offers within 20% of the Citizens premium, which often means doubling the bill or going bare. Add the post-Surfside reinspection energy that's bleeding into the single-family market, the 2024–2026 county-wide reassessment that moved a lot of Hialeah land values up 30–50%, and the simple fact that splitting a paid-off house six ways at $475,000 puts roughly $79,000 in each heir's hand. For a lot of families that's a down payment on a first house, a college fund, a small business loan paid off, or the gap that keeps mom in assisted living for another two years. We don't push anyone to sell. We just give a real number, in writing, in 24 hours, so the family can make the decision with actual information instead of a Zestimate.

What we don't buy. A short answer for transparency: we don't buy active-construction sites with open structural permits we can't close out, we don't buy properties with EPA contamination orders (the gas station that became a house, the dry cleaner site), and we don't buy mobile/manufactured homes on rented land where title hasn't been retired under §319.261. Almost everything else — every condition, every situation, every neighborhood, every price band — we'll make a written offer on within 24 hours.

Hialeah-Specific Legal & Practical Hooks

Inheritance, multiple heirs, and the §732.103 problem. When a Hialeah homeowner dies without a trust and without a will, Florida's intestate succession statute (§732.103) passes the homestead to surviving spouse and descendants as tenants in common. In a tight-knit Cuban-American family that's been in the same house for forty years, that often means four, five, six, sometimes ten heirs all sharing fractional ownership of one little CBS three-bedroom. Every heir must sign the deed, or one heir can force a sale through Florida's partition statute (Ch. 64), now subject to the Heirs Property Act protections at §§64.201–64.214 (mandatory court-ordered appraisal and a co-tenant buyout right before any partition sale). For estates under $75,000 of non-exempt assets, summary administration (§735.201) closes title in weeks. For estates over that threshold or where the decedent died within the last two years, formal administration (Ch. 733) issues Letters of Administration and a Personal Representative gets sole authority to convey under §733.607. The summary-administration cap is rising to $150,000 effective July 1, 2026 under CS/HB 1337, which will pull a lot of Hialeah inherited-property deals into the faster track.

Unpermitted additions and Hialeah Code Enforcement. The other recurring Hialeah issue is the unpermitted addition. The Florida room that got built around 1978 with no permit. The carport that became a fourth bedroom for the cousins who came over in '94. The detached "efficiency" in the back where Tía has been living rent-free since the Bush administration. These additions show up on the Property Appraiser's sketch but not in the city's permit history, and Hialeah Code Enforcement issues Notices of Violation that accrue at $250 per day after a missed compliance deadline. Recorded liens secure those fines under Ch. 162. The good news for sellers: code-enforcement liens are routinely negotiated — the city regularly accepts a fraction of face value when ownership transfers and the new owner pulls retroactive permits or demolishes the unpermitted structure. We pay for the municipal lien search, run the negotiation through closing, and price the offer net of realistic settlement, not headline lien amount.

The §689.261 homestead-tax disclosure. Every Hialeah seller signs a §689.261 disclosure at contract acknowledging that the buyer cannot rely on the seller's current property tax bill. When grandma had Save Our Homes and the $51,411 (2026) homestead exemption stacked for thirty years, her tax bill might be $2,400. After we close, the property reassesses to purchase price under Florida's "January 1 following sale" rule, the homestead drops, and the new tax bill can land at $9,000–$12,000. That's our problem to underwrite, not yours — but it's why our offers price tax exposure into the number from the start. Sellers occasionally ask whether they can "transfer" the SOH cap to family. The answer: portability under §193.155(8) lets the homestead owner move up to $500,000 of accumulated SOH benefit to a new Florida homestead within three tax years — but it's the owner's benefit, not transferable to heirs by inheritance.

Foreclosure timing in the 11th Judicial Circuit. Miami-Dade Civil Court is the busiest foreclosure docket in Florida, which cuts both ways. Cases filed under Ch. 702 typically run 8–14 months from lis pendens to clerk's sale, longer if there's a contested defense or a bankruptcy stay. The clerk's sale itself is set 20–35 days after final judgment under §45.031. Florida's right of redemption ends at the later of the certificate of sale filing or the date in the judgment under §45.0315 — there is no post-sale statutory redemption like in some states. For a Hialeah seller in pre-foreclosure, that means the window to convert equity to cash is real but it's not unlimited. We've closed deals seven days before scheduled clerk's-sale auctions and wired payoff to the lender directly so the lis pendens releases at the same minute the deed records. Don't wait until the week of the sale — but if it's the week of the sale and you're reading this, call us anyway. We've still made it work.

The bilingual closing. Florida's notarial law lets the closing agent prepare and read closing documents in Spanish, and most Miami-Dade title companies have at least one bilingual escrow officer on staff. Federal HUD documents, the FAR/BAR contract, the deed, the closing statement — all of it can be reviewed line-by-line in Spanish before signature. We work with a small handful of Hialeah-area title attorneys who do this every day and we steer the closing there when the family prefers. No one signs a document they didn't fully understand, and no one feels rushed by an English-only closer running through paperwork at lawyer pace.

• Family-owned and in-state. No franchise. No 800-number routed to Phoenix. You call 951-331-3844 and you reach our team.
• Bilingual end-to-end. Pre-offer call, walkthrough, contract review, closing — all available in Spanish from someone who actually grew up speaking it.
• Probate-fluent. We coordinate with the family's attorney, pay refundable earnest money while the order works through the court, and structure deals around summary vs. formal administration timelines.
• Lien negotiation included. Code-enforcement liens, water/sewer arrears, unpaid solid-waste assessments, expired homestead clawbacks — we run them, we negotiate them, we don't make you fix them.
• Real cash, real proof of funds. Bank letter or escrow attorney trust-account verification with every offer. No assignment-fee wholesaler shenanigans.
• 15 years, 500+ Florida closings, BBB A+, 4.9★ on Google. Track record matters when you're handing over the title to your abuela's house.

The questions above in the frontmatter are the canonical FAQ set rendered on the page. They cover: closing speed, unpermitted additions, multi-heir probate, post-sale tax reassessment, tenant-occupied multi-family, Hialeah code-enforcement liens, fees and commissions, pre-foreclosure timing, and two Spanish-language questions on as-is condition and inherited probate.

Ready to Sell Your Hialeah House?

Llámenos. Or call. Either way — 951-331-3844. Tell us the address, tell us what's going on, and we'll have a written cash offer in your hands within 24 hours. No fees. No commissions. No repairs. No cleanout. No sibling drama you have to manage alone — we coordinate with your family and your probate attorney from the first call through funding day. Cierre en 7 días en cualquier título de Miami-Dade. You keep the equity. We handle the rest.

You can text the address to 951-331-3844 right now. You can fill the form above. You can email us photos of the violation notice or the lis pendens or the letter from the probate clerk. Whatever's easiest. We've bought houses for families who never came back to Hialeah for the closing — Power of Attorney, FedEx the documents, wire the funds to the heir in Las Vegas the same afternoon. Distance, language, paperwork, the unpermitted bedroom out back — none of it stops us. Get the offer. Then decide.