Everything You Need to Know About Selling Your House for Cash

Impact Real Estate is a local real estate investment company that buys houses directly from homeowners throughout Central Pennsylvania. We pay cash, buy in any condition, and close on the seller's timeline, no agents, no listings, no repairs required.

A real estate agent lists your house on the open market and finds you a buyer, which typically takes months and involves commissions, repairs, and showings. We are the buyer. We make you a direct cash offer and can close in days instead of months, with no commissions or listing fees.

Yes. Our owner is a licensed real estate agent in Pennsylvania operating under the Keller Williams Keystone Brokerage, and we comply with Pennsylvania and Ohio real estate laws and National Association of Realtors (NAR) policies. We're a local, transparent business, not an anonymous national franchise.

Impact Real Estate is owned by Isaiah Shickley, who was born and raised in Elizabethtown, PA, and built the company to give Central Pennsylvania homeowners a fair, faster alternative to listing.

We maintain dedicated coverage in Berks, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Schuylkill, and York counties, and we regularly buy in surrounding Central Pennsylvania counties too.

You fill out our short form or give us a call, we ask a few questions about your property, and typically put together a fair cash offer within 24 hours. If you accept, we handle the paperwork and close on a date that works for you.

From first contact to closing, the whole process can take as little as 7 to 14 days. If you need more time, we're happy to work around a closing date that's months out instead.

No. Don't clean, don't repair, don't remove anything. We buy houses exactly as they are, including any items or debris left behind.

Usually, yes, a brief walkthrough helps us put together an accurate offer. It's quick, informal, and there's no obligation to accept whatever we offer afterward.

We handle the paperwork and coordinate with a title company to schedule closing. You show up, sign, and receive your funds, no repairs, staging, or showings required at any point.

We build our process around no pressure at every step. If your situation changes before closing, talk to us directly, we'd rather have an honest conversation than push a deal that no longer makes sense for you.

We look at your home's condition, its location, what comparable properties have recently sold for in your area, and what repairs would be needed to bring it to market-ready condition. That gives us a fair, straightforward number.

Yes, though it's worth understanding how "fair" works here. A cash offer is typically lower than a fully-repaired retail listing price, but it accounts for the repairs, commissions, holding costs, and months of uncertainty a traditional sale would cost you.

No. There are no agent commissions, no listing fees, and no hidden costs. We also cover standard closing costs. The cash offer we give you is the amount you walk away with.

We do. Standard closing costs are covered on our end, which is one of the main differences between selling to us and a traditional retail sale.

We aim to make a fair offer from the start, but we're always open to a conversation. If you have context about the property we may not know, tell us, it could affect the number.

Yes, this is one of the most common reasons homeowners come to us. A new roof, outdated systems, structural issues, fire or water damage, none of it disqualifies you. We buy the house exactly as it stands.

Yes. Pennsylvania foreclosures are processed through the courts and can take 6 months to over a year, which often leaves a window to sell before a sheriff's sale. The earlier you reach out, the more options we have to help.

Generally, the estate needs to be far enough along in probate for an executor or administrator to have legal authority to sell. Pennsylvania probate for a straightforward estate usually takes six months to a year. We're glad to talk through where you are in the process and have an offer ready for when you're able to sell.

Yes, we buy tenant-occupied properties. You won't need to handle an eviction or wait for a lease to end before selling to us.

We regularly buy properties with open violations, liens, or fines attached. We factor those costs into our offer so you don't have to resolve them yourself before selling.

Yes. Splitting a shared property is easier when it sells fast and cleanly. A direct cash sale avoids months of showings and negotiations while you're already navigating enough.

Yes, we regularly buy vacant and long-neglected properties, including ones inherited from family that have sat empty for years. No cleanup is required on your end.

Back taxes can typically be settled out of the proceeds at closing. Reach out and we'll walk through the numbers with you directly.

Not required, though you're always welcome to have one review the paperwork. We work with a title company to handle the closing process the same way a traditional sale would.

A standard purchase agreement and the closing documents a title company prepares, similar to what you'd sign in a traditional home sale, just without the extra financing paperwork a bank would require.

Fair question, and worth asking of anyone in this space. Our owner is a licensed PA real estate agent under Keller Williams Keystone Brokerage, we close through licensed title companies, and there's never any obligation or upfront cost to you at any step.

That's normal and handled at closing. The title company pays off existing mortgages and liens directly from the sale proceeds, and you receive whatever remains.

Berks, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Schuylkill, and York counties have dedicated coverage, and we regularly buy in surrounding Central PA counties as well.

Reach out anyway. We regularly buy homes outside our eight core counties, and if a property is outside what we can currently do, we'll tell you honestly.

Our focus is Central Pennsylvania, though our compliance also covers Ohio. If you have a property there, reach out and we can discuss it directly.