An estate sale that failed for three years with two brokerages — under hard contract in two weeks, closed in 29 days, zero repairs.
For three years, the executor of a family estate tried to sell this five-unit Williamsburg building — first with one brokerage, then another. Deal after deal fell through, and always for the same reasons: unreliable first-time buyers who couldn't perform, and inspection issues that turned into renegotiation. Every failed contract meant more months of carrying the building and less confidence that the sale would ever actually happen. The building itself was never the problem. The process kept putting it in front of the wrong buyers.
We didn't relist the building publicly. Instead, we took it directly to the 150 most active buyers in the immediate area — professionals who already own comparable buildings and don't need hand-holding to reach a closing table. That controlled process did what three years of listings couldn't: within two weeks, the property was under a hard contract, after a competitive bidding process among seven top professional buyers. Competition among serious buyers — not exposure to casual ones — is what protects both the price and the certainty of closing.
Sold in 29 days from contract signing — as-is, with zero repairs.
After three years of failed contracts with two brokerages, the estate went under hard contract within two weeks of our process starting. No inspection drama, no last-minute renegotiation — a clean closing 29 days after signatures, and a family finally able to settle the estate.
After three years of failed contracts, Dimitri had the building under hard contract in two weeks. The most painless real estate transaction our family has been through.Estate Executor · Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Straight answers, drawn from how this transaction actually played out.
The property went under a hard contract within two weeks of our process starting, and closed 29 days after contract signing — with zero repairs.
Over three years with two different brokerages, deals kept falling through because of unreliable first-time buyers and inspection issues that turned into renegotiation. The problem wasn't the building — it was the buyer pool.
Yes. It closed with zero repairs. We position buildings as-is to vetted professional buyers, so there is no inspection-driven renegotiation late in the deal.
No public listing was used here. We marketed directly to the 150 most active buyers in the immediate area and ran a competitive private process — seven serious bidders competed for the building.
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