Sell a House With Structural Damage in Pompano Beach, FL

Concrete block, a tie beam, wood trusses and a slab: that is the structure of a typical Pompano Beach house from 1974, and each part has its own way of failing. Stair-step cracks and displaced courses in a block wall in Cresthaven or Pompano Beach Highlands. A tie beam spalling where the rebar inside has rusted. Trusses rotted by a roof leak that started with Wilma in October 2005 and was patched instead of fixed. A Florida room or carport whose roof has pulled away from the house. On the water in Hillsboro Shores, a seawall that leaned, then failed, and took the yard and the edge of the slab with it. Each of these generates an engineer's letter, a repair estimate that sends a financed buyer away, and a disclosure duty that follows the house to the next buyer.

Pompano Beach Cash Buyers buys structurally damaged houses and units across Pompano Beach and North Broward, as-is. No engineering report, no shoring and no repair is required from you. We price the engineering, the structural work and the finish work into a written offer within 24 hours of the visit and perform it after closing under City of Pompano Beach permits. This page explains what fails in houses of this age, how condo buildings differ, how we price repair against rebuild, and what Florida requires you to disclose.

A buyer's inspector sees a crack, a sag or a separation and recommends a licensed structural engineer. The engineer's letter becomes part of the file. The buyer's lender will not fund until the recommended repairs are designed, permitted, built and inspected, and the buyer's insurer may decline the house outright. Structural repair in Broward County means engineering drawings, a City of Pompano Beach building permit, specialized contractors and months of time. A Pompano Beach house already takes roughly two to three months to go under contract in a market with about seven months of supply. A structural finding does not delay that sale; in practice it ends it, and the seller is left holding a report that Florida law now requires them to share with the next buyer.

• Walls: cracked and displaced block, spalling tie beams and lintels with rusted rebar, additions separating from the main structure.
• Roof structure: rotted or broken trusses, sagging ridgelines, decking that has failed over a long leak or a storm.
• Slabs: settlement, heaving and cracks that have displaced floors and door frames.
• Waterfront: failed seawalls and cap beams, erosion under slabs, pool decks and docks on Hillsboro Shores and along the Intracoastal.
• Fire and water: charred framing, saturated and weakened block after flooding, and the effects of years of neglected leaks.
• Unpermitted construction: carports, Florida rooms and second stories built without engineering that a city inspector will not accept.

In Pompano Beach the structural problem is often not a house but a building. Florida's milestone inspection law, Fla. Stat. 553.899, requires a structural inspection of condo and co-op buildings three or more habitable stories tall at 30 years and every 10 years after, with the local agency able to require 25 years for buildings near salt water; a phase two inspection follows only if phase one finds substantial structural deterioration. The local example is a 1973 oceanfront building at 1000 S Ocean Blvd, where a 2026 listing advertised that the seller would pay a $70,000 special assessment at closing tied to the building's recertification under Broward County's building safety program (25 years, then every 10). A special assessment already levied is a debt of the unit, and the association's estoppel certificate, the statement of what the unit owes, is due within 10 business days of the request. We buy units in buildings with open milestone findings and price the assessment into the offer.

Our offer includes the engineering evaluation and drawings, the structural repair itself, whether that is truss replacement, wall rebuilding, slab work or a new seawall, the permits and inspections, and the finish work that follows. Where the structure is past economical repair, we price demolition and a rebuild against the value of the lot, and on the beach side east of the Intracoastal, or anywhere inside the city's Special Flood Hazard Area, that rebuild includes building to the current flood elevation. We walk the house once, with an engineer or contractor when the damage calls for it, and deliver a written offer within 24 hours of the visit. The offer carries no inspection contingency: an engineer's later finding is our cost.

Florida sellers must disclose known facts that materially affect the value of the home and are not readily observable, a rule the courts set in Johnson v. Davis in 1985. A structural problem you know about, and any engineer's report you hold, fall squarely inside it. Share them with us; they sharpen the number and do not reduce it below what we would assume from a walk-through. If the damage is severe enough that the city has posted the house as unsafe, the case passes to us at closing with the written disclosure, the copies of the notices and the 5-day notice to the code officer that Fla. Stat. 162.06(5) requires, and any recorded fine is settled on the settlement statement. Tell us about every notice and deadline so the contract and the title company's timeline account for them.

Send the address, a plain description of what you have seen, and any reports, claims or city notices you hold. We visit within a day or two and deliver a written offer within 24 hours of the visit. On acceptance a Broward County title company searches the official records at the Governmental Center for mortgages, liens and recorded orders, obtains payoffs, and closes in about a week once the file is clear, or on a later date you choose. We pay the customary closing costs and there is no commission; your net is the price minus any mortgage and liens. If the damage is covered by an insurance claim, the sale can proceed with the claim open, paid or denied, subject to the policy's terms and your lender's rights to the proceeds.

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