Tired landlord
Yes. You can sell a Missouri or Kansas house with the tenants still living there. The lease moves to the buyer, and you do not need the tenant’s permission or a finished eviction before you ask for an offer.
You can sell a house in Missouri or Kansas with the tenants still living there. The lease moves to the buyer. You do not need the tenant’s permission, and you do not have to finish an eviction before you ask for an offer. The offer will be lower than an empty, repaired house, because the lease and the condition come with it.
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In Kansas City
Landlords call when the rent is late, the house is damaged, or they are simply finished. The legal pieces are ordinary. The hard part is that a traditional listing needs cooperation you may not have.
In both Missouri and Kansas, the buyer steps into the lease. A fixed-term lease runs to its end. A month-to-month tenancy can be ended with written notice. The pages already on this site state 30 days in both states. Read the lease. A city rule can differ. We are not your eviction lawyer.
You also do not need them to sign the deed. It is reasonable to tell them the house is being sold. Do not promise that they can stay, that the rent will never change, or that the next owner will do anything the lease does not already say.
The security deposit is transferred to the buyer at closing or returned to the tenant, the way the lease and state rules require. It is not a bonus you keep on the side.
A tenant can refuse a door, leave the house in rough shape, or talk a retail buyer out of it. We need one visit, with reasonable notice. We are not staging the house for a Sunday open house.
An open case does not by itself stop a sale. The case can move to the new owner. You do not have to dismiss it, and you do not have to finish it, for us to look. Self-help is not an option. Do not change the locks or shut off utilities.
None of the four published case studies on this site is a tenant story. We will not dress up a tax sale, an inheritance, or a foreclosure file as a landlord win.
Your choices
Staying a landlord is a valid choice. Selling is the choice when you do not want another lease cycle. A cash price is lower because we take the problem you are tired of.
Keep the rental
You follow the court process. You may collect no rent while it runs, and you pay to turn the unit.
A retail sale
A buyer who wants to live there often will not wait out a lease or a hostile showing.
What Saving KC does
We buy with the occupants there. The lease and the deposit transfer at closing.
Same problem, later
Waiting is reasonable if a good tenant’s lease is about to end and you want the house empty.
A number you can read
Paying, not paying, or on a voucher. We will look once and write a number that includes them. You do not evict first.
What we actually do
We take the house, the lease, and the condition. We do not collect your back rent for you, and we do not run the eviction from your side of the closing.
Paying or not, month-to-month or a term lease, voucher or not, damage or not. Hiding a tenant does not help the offer. It blows up title later.
We look with reasonable notice. You do not need the house cleaned. Damage is part of the number, not a lecture.
We can buy a house with a housing-choice voucher. The housing authority’s contract still applies to the next owner. We read it before we close. We do not promise the tenant anything beyond that contract.
The deposit and the lease transfer. An open eviction can transfer. From that day, you are not the landlord. Unpaid back rent is not added to your check unless the written offer says so. Ours does not, unless we have written it in.
We will not tell you to lock anyone out. We will not give you a script for a court hearing. If you want to keep the rental and remove a tenant, hire a landlord-tenant lawyer and use the court.
The money and the stuff
You are selling the real estate subject to the lease. You are not selling a promise of future rent.
Calls, notices, and repairs after the deed are the buyer’s. That is the point of the sale.
It transfers to the buyer or goes back to the tenant. Do not spend it in the week before closing.
We do not bill you after closing for holes in the walls or a missing appliance. Those items are why the offer is what it is.
A rental mortgage and delinquent taxes are paid at closing if the price covers them. If a lease has months left, the buyer honors it. You do not get to cancel it on the courthouse steps.
Ernest Dodson is a Missouri-licensed real estate salesperson with Platinum Realty LLC, license #2023026433. Saving KC Homebuyers LLC buys real estate as a principal. We may assign the purchase contract to another buyer, and we tell you when we do.
Questions
These answers are about this situation. They are not legal advice. The company list is on the FAQ page.
Paying, not paying, or on a voucher. We will look once and write a number that includes them. You do not evict first.
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