We Buy Houses in Columbia, SC

Yes. South Carolina requires a licensed attorney to supervise every residential closing in the state, cash or financed, so a closing attorney handles the title search, deed preparation, and disbursement whether you are in Richland County or Lexington County. When you sell to Home Pros, we pay that attorney's fee. When you list with an agent, it is usually on your side of the settlement statement.

Not always. South Carolina raised its small-estate threshold from $25,000 to $45,000 in 2025 (S.C. Code Section 62-3-1201, as amended by Act No. 26). If the decedent's entire probate estate is worth $45,000 or less, an heir can collect it by affidavit 30 days after the death, without a court-appointed personal representative. Above that amount, the Richland County or Lexington County Probate Court has to appoint someone first, but we can put an offer in writing while that is underway.

South Carolina is a judicial foreclosure state, so the lender has to sue in the county Court of Common Pleas and get a court order before your house can be auctioned. The notice of sale has to run at the courthouse and two other public places for three weeks before the sale (S.C. Code Section 15-39-630), and the process commonly runs six to twelve months from the first filing. We can often make an offer and close before that sale date, which stops the foreclosure and protects whatever equity is left.

Usually, yes. Selling as-is does not waive South Carolina's Residential Property Condition Disclosure Act (S.C. Code Title 27, Chapter 50); you still have to tell a buyer about known defects. The law exempts a few situations, including sales completed through foreclosure and transfers made by a fiduciary settling an estate (S.C. Code Section 27-50-30). Selling to Home Pros skips this step entirely since we buy knowing the home's condition up front.

We buy throughout Columbia, including Shandon, Rosewood, Forest Acres, Eau Claire, Elmwood Park, Cottontown, Earlewood, and the Olympia and Congaree Vista areas, plus West Columbia, Cayce, Irmo, Lexington, and Blythewood across the rest of the Midlands.

Yes. Landlords near the University of South Carolina and Five Points come to us with student rentals sitting between leases, tenants behind on rent, or properties they are simply tired of managing. We buy occupied houses as-is; you do not need to evict anyone or wait for a lease to end to get an offer.

Contact us before the county's tax sale. We factor unpaid Richland or Lexington County taxes and any accrued penalties into your offer and pay them out of the closing proceeds, so you are not writing a check to catch up before you can sell.

Once the closing attorney disburses funds, you get a wire the same day. There is no multi-week wait for a buyer's mortgage lender to fund a loan, because our purchases are all-cash.

Correct. We cover the closing attorney's fee and standard closing costs, and there is no real estate commission since no agent is involved on either side. The number in your purchase agreement is what you walk away with, minus anything you still owe on the property.

We estimate the home's after-repair value from recent comparable sales, subtract the cost of repairs, then subtract a margin that covers our holding costs, the closing attorney's fee, and resale risk. What remains is your offer, and we walk through the math with you before you sign.

Yes, and it is close to our own story since Home Pros is veteran-owned. PCS orders rarely line up with a traditional listing timeline, so we make offers on a set schedule and can close in as little as 7 days or wait until your move date, whichever helps more.

Yes. Home Pros is the trade name of Balint Holdings, LLC, a veteran-owned, BBB accredited company with a 4.9-star Google rating from 98 reviews. You can check our BBB profile and Google reviews before you ever sign a contract.