Sell My House Fast in San Lorenzo
Cash home buyer serving San Lorenzo and the rest of Alameda County. We buy as-is: no repairs or cleaning, no commissions, and we pay closing costs.
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Our offer to San Lorenzo homeowners
- We buy as-is
- No repairs or cleaning
- No commissions
- We pay closing costs
- We work around your timeline
About selling your San Lorenzo home to Maple
San Lorenzo is a small postwar tract town near Hayward, shaped by modest ranch homes, former orchard land, and early planned neighborhoods. A lot of the homes are practical and well-built, but many still have original layouts, old roofs, aging sewer lines, and decades of belongings inside. We hear from adult children, retirees, and tired landlords who want a simple sale without fixing every item first. When a San Lorenzo home is full of old repairs and family belongings, you can sell your house in San Lorenzo as-is and leave the cleanout to us.
San Lorenzo Village was one of the first mass-planned communities in the country, built in the 1940s, and its housing is largely unchanged in footprint since. Unincorporated Alameda County, small homes, tight lots, and a great many families who have been here for generations.
Neighborhoods we buy in across San Lorenzo
San Lorenzo Village · Bay-O-Vista border · Ashland border · Hesperian corridor · Grant Avenue · Via Alamitos · Paseo Grande · Lorenzo Manor
A 1944 tract, eighty years on
San Lorenzo Village was built quickly during and after the war, hundreds of near-identical small homes laid out on a plan. Eight decades later the footprints are mostly the same and the systems inside them mostly are not, except where nobody has touched them.
What we find in the untouched ones: original electrical, galvanized supply lines, a roof on its second or third layer, single-pane windows, and a sewer lateral that has been in the ground since Truman.
What we also find, constantly, is added space. These are small houses and families grew. Bedrooms added off the back, garages converted, patios enclosed. Very little of that work has permits behind it, and San Lorenzo is unincorporated, so the paperwork lives with Alameda County.
Why that combination stalls a listing
A financed buyer's inspector writes up the systems. Then the disclosure covers the unpermitted space, and the lender or appraiser declines to count square footage the price was based on.
That is how a plan to sell your house fast in San Lorenzo falls apart, and it usually happens several weeks in, after everyone has spent time and money.
We buy the house including everything added to it, price the resolution in, and deal with the county ourselves afterward. Our guide to selling a house with unpermitted work in California explains how differently the two routes run.
When to list instead of trying to sell your house in San Lorenzo
An updated San Lorenzo home, permits in order, vacant and easy to show, is a reasonable listing at an attainable price point. There are financed buyers looking at exactly this market.
Where we fit better:
- Unpermitted additions and garage conversions, which are the norm here.
- Homes on original 1940s systems.
- Inherited homes held by the same family for generations.
- Any sale needing a certain date.
What happens next
We buy across Alameda County, and our own office is a few minutes away in Castro Valley. Tell us about the house and you will have a real number within about 24 hours.
Call or text 415-800-1415. No fee, no obligation.
We also buy houses near San Lorenzo
Selling somewhere else nearby? Maple Home Buyers is a family-owned cash home buyer based in Castro Valley, buying houses across the Bay Area since 2009, as-is and for cash.
Three simple steps. A real person at every one.
Most clients go from first call to cash in hand in 3 to 7 days. No agents, no listing, no strangers walking through your house.
1Step 1
Tell us about the house
Call us or share a few details online. No pressure, no long forms. A real local person picks up.
2Step 2
We make a fair cash offer
Within 24 hours we’ll send a no-obligation cash offer. We coordinate with attorneys, family, and probate as needed.
3Step 3
Close on your timeline
Choose your closing date. Fast as 3 to 7 days or whenever you’re ready. Walk away with cash, on terms that work for you.
Selling traditionally vs. selling to Maple
A direct, side-by-side honest comparison. No gotchas.
60–120 days, contingent on financing
3 to 7 days, on your timeline
You pay, before listing
Sell as-is. Leave anything you don’t want
Strangers in your house, often
One walkthrough. That’s it
5–6% to agents
$0. We don’t charge commission
1–3% of sale price
We cover them
Deals fall through
Cash offer. No financing contingency
Maple is a great fit when speed, certainty, and as-is matter more than squeezing a maximum sale price. If you have time and the home is market-ready, we’ll happily tell you so.
What we’ve done. And what comes next
Numbers our team is proud of. Real reviews from Bay Area homeowners below. Pulled fresh from Google.
2,000+
Homes purchased
Across Northern California
17 yrs
In business
Family-owned since 2009
3–7 days
Typical close
Or whenever works for you
5.0★
Google rating
From 32+ reviews
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Get answers to common questions about our services.
There is an added bedroom and a converted garage, neither permitted. Is that fatal?
The house is tiny and original. Am I still able to sell my house fast in San Lorenzo, and will you make an offer?
Grandma has been in the house since the 1950s and it is full. What do we do?
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Ready to sell your San Lorenzo home?
Get a no-obligation cash offer in 24 hours.
- We buy as-is
- No repairs or cleaning
- No commissions
- We pay closing costs
- We work around your timeline