We buy Lutz houses in any condition, with no repairs and no fees, a cash offer in 24 hours, and closing in about 7 days.
No obligation. No cost. Takes 60 seconds.
We are pulling the county records and comparable sales on your property now. Expect a call or text shortly with your cash offer.
Need us sooner? Call 813-537-5202.
ClearHomeOffer buys houses in Lutz and across northern Hillsborough County for cash, in whatever condition they are in today. Lutz is the semi rural edge of the county, straddling the Pasco County line along U.S. Highway 41, Dale Mabry Highway, and Van Dyke Road. It is one of the few parts of the Tampa area where you find old Florida homes on acreage, horse property with barns and paddocks, and gated golf communities within a few miles of each other. Some addresses are served by county utilities and others run entirely on a private well and a septic system.
That variety makes a standard listing awkward, especially for older or rural parcels. We do not need the property polished. You leave the outbuildings, the equipment, and the overgrown pasture exactly as they are, and you pay no repairs and no commission. We look at the land and the house together, price them realistically, and give you a written cash offer to consider on your own time. Accept it and we close through a local title company in about a week. Call 813-537-5202 with the address to get a number.
No repairs, no agents, no waiting on a buyer's mortgage to be approved.
Call 813-537-5202 or send the address through the form. It takes about a minute. We do not need photos, a walkthrough, or anything cleaned up first.
We review county records, recent comparable sales, and condition, then send a written no obligation offer, usually within 24 hours. We show you how we got the number.
Pick your closing date. We handle the title work and the paperwork through a reputable Central Florida title company, and you receive your funds by wire or check.
These are the situations we actually see in Lutz, not a generic list.
Much of Lutz outside the newer communities runs on a private well and septic. A failing drainfield or a well that will not pass a lender test stops a financed sale cold. We buy without requiring you to replace or certify either system.
Pasture fencing, stables, run in sheds, and paddocks take constant upkeep, and the buyer pool for hobby farms is small. Rather than carrying the taxes and maintenance while a listing runs long, sell the land and improvements as they stand.
Lutz oaks drop limbs on roofs and pool cages, lift driveways, and crack older slabs and septic lines. Removal near a structure is costly and some species are protected. We buy with the damage in place and handle the work ourselves.
Older Lutz parcels often pass to several siblings scattered across different states. Agreeing on repairs and a listing price rarely goes smoothly. A single cash offer with one closing date gives the estate a clean way to divide the proceeds.
The older side of Lutz is genuinely rural in character. Around Old Lutz, Lake Fern, and the lanes off U.S. 41, you find wood frame and block houses on an acre or more, some built decades before the surrounding growth arrived, plus barns, workshops, detached garages, and pole buildings that were often put up without permits. A large share of these properties are on a private well and a septic system rather than county water and sewer. A tired drainfield, an aging well pump, or water that will not pass a lender's test can end a financed sale on its own, and appraisers struggle with parcels where a modest house sits on land worth as much as the structure.
Horse and hobby farm property is part of the same picture. Fenced pasture, run in sheds, and stables come with maintenance that few buyers actually want, and zoning that allows livestock does not translate into an easy mortgage. Newer Lutz is a different world. Cheval, Heritage Harbor, Van Dyke Farms, Calusa Trace, and similar communities were developed in the late 1980s through the 2000s, with associations, gates, golf, and in some cases district assessments on the tax bill. Those houses are conventional to sell until the association letters, deferred exterior work, or a payment problem enter the picture.
Trees connect the two halves of the market. Lutz has one of the heaviest oak canopies in the county, and those trees are the reason people love the area and also a recurring source of damage. Limbs come down on roofs and screen enclosures during storm season, roots lift driveways and crack slabs and older septic lines, and shaded roofs hold moisture and grow algae that shortens shingle life. Removal near a house is expensive, and county tree protection rules apply to some species. Add in inherited acreage split among heirs, probate at the Hillsborough County Clerk of Circuit Court, and lots that straddle the Pasco line in the neighbors' minds if not on the deed, and you get a market where cash closings are frequently the practical answer.
Old Lutz, Cheval, Lake Fern, Willow Bend, Ladera, Sunset Lakes, Heritage Harbor, Calusa Trace, Van Dyke Farms, Lake Keen, Stonebrier.
ZIP codes served: 33548, 33549, 33558, 33559
Drag to roughly what your house is worth. These are the costs that come out of a seller's proceeds on an ordinary listing, before anyone talks about repairs. You pay none of them with us.
Estimates, not a quote. Florida seller-side costs run roughly 6.25 to 9 percent of the sale price all in, and these use the conservative middle of that range. Repairs a buyer's inspection turns up are not counted above, and they are usually the bigger number. Our cash offer is below full retail price, which is how we cover the repairs and the resale. If your house is in good shape and you can wait sixty to ninety days, listing with a good agent will usually net you more, and we will tell you so.
Four questions, about thirty seconds. You get an offer range and, more useful than that, what you would walk away with either way. No email required to see it.
The street address is enough. We use it to pull the county record.
Add the address and we can keep going.
Pick the closest one. Be honest, it only changes the repair number, and a rougher house is not a problem for us.
Heated living area. A rough number is fine, and your county property appraiser lists it for free.
Your best guess. Think about what renovated houses on your street sold for, not what yours would fetch today.
How the offer is built. We start from the after-repair value, which is what your Lutz house would sell for once it is fully repaired and updated. We take 68 percent of that, then subtract what the repairs will actually cost. The remaining 32 percent covers our purchase costs, the holding costs while the house is being renovated, the resale costs on the back end, and our margin.
Your offer = (after-repair value × 68%) − repair costs
The repair figures we use. These are per square foot of heated living area, and they are the same numbers we use internally on Hillsborough County houses before we ever see the property:
| Move-in ready | $6 per square foot |
| Light cosmetics | $18 per square foot |
| Needs real repairs | $38 per square foot |
| Major work needed | $65 per square foot |
What listing costs a seller in Florida. Seller-side costs here run about 6.25 to 9 percent of the sale price all in. The comparison on this page uses the conservative middle of that: 5.5 percent agent commission, about 2 percent in documentary stamps, owner's title policy, settlement and lien search fees, and 3 months of taxes, insurance, utilities and upkeep at 0.25 percent of value per month while the house sits on the market. That is roughly 8.25 percent of the sale price, and it comes out of the seller's proceeds. On top of that, a seller listing a house that needs work usually has to spend the repair money first, because an appraiser flags the roof and the air conditioning and an inspection report prices the rest.
What we take on instead.
The honest caveat. If your home is in good condition, you have equity, and you can wait sixty to ninety days, listing with a good agent will usually net you more money than we will. We say that here and on every page of this site because it is true. Our offer is built for sellers who would rather have a closing date they can count on, no repair spending, and no cost of their own, than squeeze out the last few percent.
This is an estimate, not an offer. It is built entirely from numbers you typed in. A real offer comes after we pull the county record and the recent comparable sales near your property, and it can land higher or lower than this.
We check your numbers against the county record and recent sales nearby, then send a written offer, usually within 24 hours. No obligation, and we do not sell your information to anyone.
Each of these has its own guide covering how the process actually works in Hillsborough County, what your options are, and when selling to a cash buyer does and does not make sense.
You inherited a house you never planned to own, in a city you may not live in, full of belongings and bills that keep...
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The house is packed floor to ceiling, you cannot even get an agent through the front door, and the cleanout quote alone...
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The house is damaged, the insurance process is moving slower than your bills, and you are not sure you want to manage a...
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The difference between our offer and a listing is not just the price. It is everything you do not have to do.
No agent commissions, no listing fees, no closing costs charged to you. The number we agree on is the number you receive at the table.
No repairs, no cleaning, no staging. Leave what you do not want. Roof, plumbing, electrical, and cosmetics are all our problem after closing.
Close in as little as 7 days if you need speed, or take 60 to 90 days if you need time to move. You pick the date, not us.
Probate, foreclosure, divorce, code violations, tenants, back taxes, fire damage. We have closed on all of it and none of it disqualifies you.
No mortgage approvals, no appraisal contingency, no financing that falls through two weeks in. Our offers are backed by cash on hand.
We work Lutz and the surrounding market specifically. You talk to the person actually making the offer, not a national lead broker reselling your information.
A cash offer is usually below full retail. What it buys you is certainty, speed, and no cost of your own. Here is the honest comparison.
| ClearHomeOffer | Traditional Agent | iBuyer | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to offer | 24 hours | Days to weeks | 3 to 5 days |
| Closing timeline | As fast as 7 days | 30 to 90 days | 14 to 60 days |
| Agent commissions | $0 | 5 to 6% of sale price | Varies |
| Repairs required | None, we buy as-is | Often required | Deducted from offer |
| Showings and open houses | Zero | Multiple required | One inspection |
| Financing contingency | None, all cash | Buyer financing risk | None |
| Who pays closing costs | We do | Typically the seller | Service fee 2 to 5% |
| Risk of the deal collapsing | Very low | Moderate | Low |
If your home is in good condition, you have equity, and you can wait 60 to 90 days, listing with a good agent will usually net you more money. We say that plainly because it is true. Our offer is built for sellers who value speed, certainty, and a zero cost, zero repair exit over squeezing out the last few percent.
We show you the math. If the number does not work for you, no hard feelings and no follow up pressure.
Our offer starts from the After Repair Value, which is what your Lutz home would sell for on the open market once it has been fully repaired and updated. We build that number from recent comparable sales near your property, then subtract what the repairs will actually cost and the margin that makes the purchase work for us.
Say your home would be worth $300,000 after a full renovation, and it needs roughly $40,000 of work.
$300,000 × 68% = $204,000, minus $40,000 in repairs, gives a $164,000 cash offer.
That remaining 32% covers our purchase costs, the holding and carrying costs while the property is being renovated, the resale costs on the back end, and our margin. You pay no commission, no closing costs, and nothing for repairs, so the offer is what you actually walk away with. Every property is different and the exact percentage moves with condition, location, and how much risk the property carries.
Yes. Well and septic are standard across much of Old Lutz and the acreage north of Van Dyke Road, and problems with either are one of the fastest ways a financed sale falls apart. We do not require a passing septic inspection, a new drainfield, or a water quality test before closing. Share what you know about the age and history of the systems and we account for it in the offer.
They are common on Lutz acreage and they do not stop us. Pole barns, workshops, detached garages, and additions built without a permit are ordinary on older rural parcels, and they routinely complicate appraisals and lender approvals for a traditional buyer. We buy with the structures as they are and deal with any permitting or county follow up after the closing.
Yes. Fenced pasture, stables, run in sheds, and paddocks are part of what makes northern Hillsborough County distinctive, and they are also why these properties can sit on the market. The buyer pool is narrow and the maintenance is constant. We buy the land, the house, and the agricultural improvements together, and you can leave equipment and materials behind.
Only if the paperwork is unclear. Lutz addresses sit in northern Hillsborough County near the Pasco line, and mailing addresses do not always match parcel boundaries or taxing authority. The Hillsborough County Property Appraiser record and the legal description on your deed control, and the title company confirms the county and the taxing jurisdiction during the search so nothing is misassigned at closing.
Usually seven to fourteen days once you accept the offer. Because we pay cash there is no appraisal, no loan underwriting, and no lender required repairs to negotiate. Most of the timeline is the title search through the Hillsborough County Clerk of Circuit Court, plus any association or district estoppel for the gated communities. If you need longer to clear out a barn or a shop, we extend the date.
We would rather you check our numbers than take our word for it. These are the official records for your property.
Confirm acreage, year built, and the legal description on your Lutz parcel before comparing offers.
Search deeds, probate filings, easements, and liens tied to inherited or rural property.
Check your tax bill, any delinquent amounts, and certificates sold against the parcel.
Look up zoning, permits, septic and well guidance, and tree removal rules for northern county property.
Get a no-obligation cash offer in 24 hours. No repairs, no commissions, no showings. Close on the date you choose.