Sell a Pompano Beach, FL house with termite damage for cash, as-is: subterranean and drywood termites, failed WDO inspections, hollowed trusses and lapsed bonds. No tenting, treatment or repair required. Written offer within 24 hours of the visit.
South Florida is termite country from two directions. Subterranean termites come up from the soil through cracks in the slab and the block, into sills, door frames and the wood of the roof. Drywood termites arrive on the wind and settle in attic trusses, fascia, window frames and furniture, leaving small piles of pellets as the only sign. A Pompano Beach house built around 1974 in Collier City, Sanders Park or Pompano Beach Highlands has likely been treated at least once and may carry damage from before that treatment. The problem surfaces at the worst moment: when a buyer's wood-destroying organism inspection, the WDO report Florida lenders ask for, finds live activity or old damage, and the deal stalls over tenting, repairs and who pays.
Pompano Beach Cash Buyers buys houses with termite damage and active infestations throughout Pompano Beach and North Broward, as-is, with no WDO inspection, no tenting and no repair required from you. The treatment and the structural repair are priced into the written offer and handled after closing. This page explains how termites affect a Florida sale, what the damage looks like in local block houses, what you disclose, and how the as-is sale runs.
Why a WDO report ends financed sales
Florida lenders commonly want a clear WDO report, issued by a licensed pest control company, before funding a loan. Buyers' agents write contracts that let the buyer demand treatment and repair or walk. When the inspector finds live termites, damaged wood or signs of a past infestation with no treatment records, the seller is asked to pay for fumigation (for drywood) or a soil treatment (for subterranean), to replace damaged members, and to produce a clearance letter, all on the buyer's calendar. Damage inside walls cannot be measured without opening them, so estimates grow. Pompano Beach homes already take roughly two to three months to go under contract; a termite finding adds weeks, a renegotiation, or an ended deal.
Where termite damage sits in a Pompano Beach block house
In a concrete block house the termites go to whatever wood there is: roof trusses and decking, fascia and soffits, door and window bucks, interior partition framing, baseboards and cabinets. In frame additions and Florida rooms, and in the wood-frame houses that remain in older parts of the city, damage can run through sill plates, studs and subfloors. Drywood colonies leave pellets and hollowed trusses in the attic; subterranean activity leaves mud tubes on the stem wall and at slab penetrations. A termite bond that lapsed years ago is common. None of it troubles us. The question is the extent of the structural repair, and we price it as if the walls were already open.
How the treatment and the repair are priced
Our offer includes the right treatment (fumigation under a tent, a soil treatment, or both), replacement of damaged structural members, and the finish work that follows. Where trusses are involved we price the engineering and the city building permit the repair will need. We look at the house once, with a pest professional or a contractor where needed, and deliver a written offer within 24 hours of the visit. There is no inspection contingency, so a WDO report with a longer list never comes back to you as a price cut. The number you accept is the number at closing, and the tent goes up after we own the house, not before.
Disclosure: what you must say and what you need not do
Florida requires a seller to disclose known facts that materially affect value and are not readily observable, and known termite damage or activity falls inside that duty. The duty covers what you know. You are not required to order an inspection, to treat, or to investigate beyond what you have seen. Tell us what you have noticed, when the house was last treated if you know, and whether a bond exists. If you have old WDO reports or treatment invoices, share them; they help us price accurately and can raise the offer rather than lower it. Since October 1, 2024 Florida sellers also give a flood disclosure form at or before contract, and we prepare that with you in the same conversation.
Termites in vacant, inherited and rented houses
Infestations move fastest in houses nobody is watching: a parent's home in Leisureville left empty after a move to John Knox Village, a rental in Avondale where the tenant never mentioned the swarmers each spring, a seasonal house closed through the summer. Heirs often discover the damage when they start clearing the house. We buy these homes from estates, out-of-state owners and landlords with the contents and the tenants in place. Where an estate is involved, we can contract before the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit's probate division in Fort Lauderdale issues its order and close as soon as the authority to sell is in place. A written lease survives the sale and the deposit transfers with it.
How the sale runs
Send the address and what you know about the termites. We visit within a day or two, deliver a written offer within 24 hours of the visit, and open title when you accept. A Broward County title company closes in about a week once the search is clean and any payoff is in hand, or on a later date you choose. We pay the customary closing costs and there is no commission; your proceeds are the price minus the payoff and any liens. If the activity is minor and a treatment with a clearance letter would put the house in listable shape, and you have the time, Pompano Beach Cash Buyers will say so. If the damage is structural or the house has other problems, the offer lets you skip the tent and the argument.
Selling to us vs. a traditional listing in Pompano Beach, FL
| Comparison | Traditional agent | For sale by owner | Pompano Beach Cash Buyers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash offer | Rarely | Rarely | Yes |
| Sell as-is | Repairs expected | Repairs expected | Yes |
| Time to a contract | roughly two to three months (Houzeo Sep 2026: 91 days median; Momentum: 66 days median for closed sales; Zillow Feb 2026: about 85 days to pending) in Pompano Beach now | Often longer | 24 hours after the visit |
| Agent commission | About 6% | Buyer's agent usually paid | None |
| Closing costs | Paid by seller | Paid by seller | Customary costs paid by us |
| Showings | Yes | Yes | One visit |
| Financing fall-through | Possible | Possible | None, we fund it |
| Price cut after inspection | Common | Common | No inspection period |
| Closing date | Lender's schedule | Buyer's schedule | Yours |
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