We Buy Long Island Houses With Open Violations And Condemnation Placards For Cash. Building Department Coordination Done Post-Closing.
Direct cash offers for Long Island houses cited by the Town, the Village, the Nassau Fire Marshal, or the County Health Department. Vacate orders, stop-work orders, condemnation placards, and accumulated fine balances all bought as-is.
The Town building department has been on your address. Maybe one open violation. Maybe a stack. Maybe a condemnation placard on the front door. Retail buyers can’t get a mortgage on it. Retail agents won’t list it. The fines keep adding up while you figure out what to do. The seller in this situation is the inherited owner with a long-neglected house, the landlord whose accessory unit got cited, the homeowner whose fire damage outpaced the insurance, or the family whose Sandy repairs were never finished. Prime Realty Buyers buys Long Island houses with violations and condemnation notices direct for cash. The building department becomes our problem at closing.
WE BUY:
- Sold completely as-is. Open violations, stop-work orders, vacate orders, condemnation placards all bought as-is.
- Zero repairs required. Structural issues, fire damage, mold, code-failed systems all absorbed at closing.
- Zero commissions. No listing-side fee. No buyer-side credit.
- All-cash offers. No mortgage contingency, since no conventional lender will finance these anyway.
- Close in 14 to 30 days. Building department resolution handled post-closing on our side.
- 24-hour written offer based on address review, jurisdiction, and the violation file.
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Trusted by Long Island homeowners with violations and condemned houses in Hempstead, Westbury, Hicksville, Mineola, Inwood, Uniondale, Elmont, Freeport, Baldwin, Long Beach, Roosevelt, and East Rockaway.
Why Long Island Homeowners With Violations And Condemned Houses Sell To Us
A house with open violations or a condemnation placard isn’t sellable the normal way. Retail lenders won’t finance it. Retail buyers can’t get past the placard or the appraisal. The Town building department keeps fining. The Village adds their own citations on top. We buy Long Island houses with full violation stacks and posted condemnation notices, and we handle the building department file after closing.
Active code violations and the daily fines that compound.
Open violations from the Town of Hempstead, the Town of North Hempstead, the Town of Oyster Bay, or your Village building department don’t just sit on the file. They generate fines, often daily or weekly until cured, and unpaid fines become liens against the property. Property maintenance citations, fire code violations, occupancy violations, health citations, structural orders, all stack. We’ve bought houses with thirty-plus open violations and accumulated fine balances north of $40,000. The fines and the resolution transfer to us at closing.
Condemnation placards and vacate orders handled post-closing.
A condemned house has a yellow or red placard on the door, entry restrictions, and a Town or Village order declaring the building unfit for habitation. Insurance carriers cancel. Lenders refuse to finance. Occupants must leave under the vacate order. The condemnation lift requires inspections, repairs, and re-permitting through the building department. We buy condemned Long Island houses with the placard still posted, and we handle the lift process post-closing. You don’t coordinate with the building inspector or remediate anything.
Town and Village building departments coordinated through our side.
Nassau properties often sit under two overlapping building department jurisdictions: the Town (Hempstead, North Hempstead, or Oyster Bay) and the Village within that town. Hempstead Village inside the Town of Hempstead. Garden City Village inside the Town of Hempstead. Mineola Village inside the Town of North Hempstead. Each can issue citations independently, and one property can have a Town file and a Village file open at the same time. We coordinate with both jurisdictions post-closing so the seller doesn’t have to figure out who is fining what.
Retail lender refusal collapses the retail buyer pool.
Conventional mortgages, FHA loans, VA loans, USDA loans, and most portfolio products require habitable property certifications. An open violation can be flagged on appraisal. A condemnation placard takes the property off the retail mortgage market entirely. Even cash retail buyers walk away from houses that need permit work before reoccupancy. Our cash purchase doesn’t require any of it. We close occupied, vacant, condemned, placarded, fined, or all of the above. The building department file transitions to our name at closing.
Other reasons Long Island homeowners with cited houses sell to us:
- Cease-and-desist orders from the building department absorbed at closing
- Court appearance dates for code violations rescheduled or assigned to our attorney
- Accumulated lien balance for unpaid fines paid off or assigned at closing
- Stop-work orders on partially completed renovations bought as-is
You stop responding to the Town. We start owning the address and the file.
We Buy Long Island Houses With Violations And Condemnation As-Is
Building department classifications don’t stop our offer. Every category of violation, every type of condemnation, every flavor of unfit-for-habitation order.
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Houses with property maintenance violations (overgrown grass, debris, peeling paint, broken windows)
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Houses with fire code violations from the Nassau Fire Marshal or local fire department
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Houses with health code violations from Nassau County Department of Health
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Houses with structural violations and emergency stabilization orders
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Houses with occupancy violations for illegal basement apartments, attic units, accessory dwellings
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Houses with stop-work orders for permits started but not completed
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Houses with cease-and-desist orders for illegal use, illegal rentals, or unpermitted businesses
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Houses with condemnation placards posted by the Town or Village
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Houses under emergency vacate orders that displaced occupants
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Houses with electrical hazard tags from a fire that wasn’t fully repaired
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Houses with water and sewer disconnection orders from the Town
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Houses with accumulated daily fines and lien balances on the property record
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Houses with active District Court code enforcement cases pending
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Houses tagged unfit for occupancy after a fire, flood, or structural event
We buy the address. The Town and the Village go through us afterward.
Why Choose Prime Realty Buyers
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Local Long Island buyer with extensive building department coordination across Nassau Town and Village jurisdictions
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Direct cash purchase with our own funds. No financing contingency that condemned property can’t satisfy.
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Building-department-specific experience: Town of Hempstead, Town of North Hempstead, Town of Oyster Bay, plus the Village departments within each
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Condemnation lift process handled post-closing through our contractor and our building department coordinator
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Court appearance dates for violation cases assigned to our attorney through formal substitution of counsel
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Accumulated fine balances paid off or assigned at closing through your closing attorney
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Written offer within 24 hours of address review and violation file lookup
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Every Long Island situation: single-family with one open violation, multi-family with stacked citations, fully condemned vacant houses
Specific Violation And Condemnation Situations We Buy In
Inherited house with twenty-plus open violations accumulated over decades the decedent ignored
Multi-family with cited illegal basement apartment that got escalated to a vacate order
Single-family with a stop-work order on a half-completed dormer or addition
House with a condemnation placard after a fire that wasn’t remediated within the deadline
House with a Nassau County Health Department citation for cesspool failure or sewage issue
House condemned for structural unsafety after the porch, deck, or roof collapsed
House with cease-and-desist on illegal short-term rental operation
House with active District Court code enforcement case pending appearance
House with a cumulative fine lien balance making retail closing arithmetically impossible
House under emergency vacate order after Sandy or other storm damage was never repaired
Nassau Areas We Buy In
Roosevelt
East Rockaway
We buy houses with violations and condemnation across Nassau County, including Hempstead, Westbury, Hicksville, Mineola, Inwood, Uniondale, Elmont, Freeport, Baldwin, Long Beach, Roosevelt, and East Rockaway. We also buy in every other Nassau village and incorporated town across the county.
Real Seller Stories
“I inherited the house from my father in 2019. He had been there since 1971. The Town of Hempstead had a violation file on the property going back to 2003. Property maintenance, broken steps, garage door hanging off, debris in the side yard. The fines were almost twenty-eight thousand by the time I sat down with my attorney. The retail agent said she couldn’t list it. Prime Realty Buyers walked through, knew exactly what the violation file looked like, and bought the house at a fair price. They cleared the fines at closing. Done in twenty-three days.”
Jerold, Hempstead
“I owned a single-family in Hicksville that I had converted to a two-family in 2008. The basement apartment never had a CO. In 2023 the Town caught it during a neighbor complaint about parking. Cease-and-desist, vacate order on the basement, daily fines. I tried to bring it up to code. The estimate was over ninety thousand. Prime Realty Buyers offered to buy as-is. They took the property with the vacate order still active, took the fines as part of the closing math, and handled the Town afterward. I walked away. They got the file.”
Sanjeev, Hicksville
“There was an electrical fire in 2022. We got out, the dog got out, nobody was hurt. The insurance check covered some demo but the contractor we hired disappeared with the deposit. Six months later the Village inspector posted the condemnation placard. We couldn’t move back in, couldn’t fix it without permits we couldn’t get because of the condemnation, couldn’t sell it normally. Prime Realty Buyers bought the house with the placard still on the door. They handled the building department after we closed. We got cash to start over somewhere else.”
Petra, Mineola
“I rented out a single-family in Inwood for fifteen years. The last tenant turned out to be running an unlicensed daycare from the house. The Town came down hard. Cease-and-desist, multiple property maintenance violations, fire code citations, and the daily fines started running. By the time the tenant left, the fines had hit thirty-one thousand. I was sixty-eight and had no interest in fighting it. Prime Realty Buyers bought the house, took on the violation file and the lien balance. Closed in three weeks. I am out of the landlord business.”
Hakim, Inwood
“Sandy hit in 2012. We did partial repairs but never finished the work because money got tight and one contractor walked. By 2019 the house had failed insurance inspection. In 2022 the Village condemned it after a building inspector reported structural concerns. We had been carrying taxes and the lawn for a decade on a house we could not live in. Prime Realty Buyers bought it condemned, with all the post-Sandy issues, and the unfinished contractor work. We never had to figure out the condemnation lift. Closed in twenty-five days. Thirteen years of waiting ended.”
Yara, Freeport
Sound Like Your Situation?
Get a written cash offer within 24 hours. We pull the violation file ourselves. The building department file transfers to us at closing.
Our 3-Step Process
Contact us.
Call 516-218-0365 or submit the form. Tell us the address, the jurisdiction (Town and Village), and what you know about open violations or condemnation status. Five minutes.
Walkthrough and offer.
Exterior walkthrough at minimum, interior if access is permitted. We pull the violation file ourselves if you don’t have copies. Written cash offer within 24 hours.
Pick your closing date.
Fourteen to thirty days. Building department file transfers to us at closing through your closing attorney.
Prime Realty Buyers Vs Traditional Listing
| Factor | Prime Realty Buyers | Traditional Listing |
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| Open code violation handling | Bought as-is with violations active, fines and resolution transfer to us | Retail buyer’s lender flags violations on appraisal, deal collapses |
| Condemnation placard acceptance | We buy with the placard still posted on the door | Listing agents won’t list condemned properties on MLS |
| Vacate order handling | Bought with vacate order in effect, occupants displaced or remaining | Retail buyers can’t close on properties under vacate orders |
| Building department coordination | Town and Village both handled post-closing on our side | Listing agents have no role in building department resolution |
| Cumulative fine lien payoff | Cleared at closing or assigned to us per the contract structure | Liens must be cleared before any retail closing, often huge balances |
| Town and Village jurisdictional overlap | We handle both Town and Village files in parallel post-closing | Sellers stuck managing two building departments at once |
| Repairs required | Zero | $30K to $250K typical for violation or condemned condition |
| Commissions | Zero | 5% to 6% of sale price |
| Closing timeline | 14 to 30 days | Cannot retail-close many violation or condemned properties at all |
| Inspections | None | Buyer’s inspector findings amplify already-open violation file |
| Appraisal contingency | None | Appraisers flag violations and condemnation, kills financing |
| Financing contingency | None | No conventional, FHA, VA, USDA, or portfolio loan will fund condemned property |
| Showings | One walkthrough | Many properties unsafe to show, some legally restricted from entry |
| Buyer credits | Zero | Even cash retail buyers demand $20K to $80K credits for violations |
| Listing prep cost | $0 | $50K to $200K+ to clear violations and lift condemnation before listing |
FAQs
Can you buy a house with a condemnation placard on the door?
Yes. Condemned houses are one of the specific situations we handle. The placard, the entry restriction, the vacate order, and the underlying violations all transfer to us at closing. We handle the condemnation lift post-closing through the Town or Village building department on our timeline, not yours.
What if I owe thousands in accumulated daily fines?
We handle that at closing. Your closing attorney coordinates the lien balance figure with the Town or Village finance office. The fines either get paid off from closing proceeds or get assigned to us as part of the contract structure. Either way, you walk away from them. We’ve taken on fine balances ranging from a few thousand to north of $40,000.
Will a retail buyer be able to get a mortgage on my house with these violations?
Usually no. Conventional, FHA, VA, USDA, and most portfolio mortgages require habitable property certification. An open code violation can flag on appraisal. A condemnation placard removes the property from the retail mortgage market entirely. That’s part of why direct cash buyers exist for these situations.
The property is in both the Town of Hempstead and Hempstead Village. Do you handle both?
Yes. Nassau properties commonly sit under two overlapping building department jurisdictions (Town and Village). Each can issue independent citations and maintain its own file. We coordinate with both post-closing. The Town of Hempstead file and the Hempstead Village file both transfer to us, both get resolved on our timeline.
What if there’s an active District Court code enforcement case scheduled?
We can handle that too. Court cases for code violations require attorney appearances and resolution. Your closing attorney coordinates the substitution of attorney of record with the court, and our attorney takes over the case post-closing. You don’t have to attend another court date for the property.
¿Compran casas con violaciones de código en Long Island?
Tengo varias citaciones del pueblo. Sí. Compramos casas con violaciones de código activas, órdenes de cease-and-desist, y casas condenadas en todo Long Island. Las multas acumuladas, los problemas con el departamento de construcción del pueblo o de la villa, y las órdenes judiciales todos se transfieren a nosotros en el cierre. Llame al 516-218-0365 y le explicamos el proceso completo en español sin presión.
How long do violations stay on the property record?
Until they’re cured. Open violations stay open until the building department signs off after inspection. Some properties have violations on file going back decades because nobody resolved them. We’ve bought houses with violation histories from the 1990s still showing as open. We handle the closeout post-closing.
The house has a stop-work order on a renovation we started. Can you still buy?
Yes. Stop-work orders on partially completed permitted or unpermitted work are common. We buy the house with the stop-work order in effect. Our team handles the resolution post-closing through proper channels: permit closeout, inspection, or removal of the unpermitted work as appropriate for the jurisdiction.
The Health Department cited my cesspool. Does that matter?
Nassau County Department of Health cesspool citations are common on older Nassau blocks not yet hooked up to public sewer. We buy with active health citations. Cesspool repair, replacement, or sewer hookup gets resolved post-closing on our side. The fine balance and any active orders transfer to us through the closing.
Can you close before my next building department court date?
Often yes. If you call us within 14 days of a scheduled appearance, we can usually close before the court date. Our attorney appears instead of you afterward. The case continues under our name through to resolution. Your name comes off the file at closing.
Are there any fees, commissions, or closing costs I pay?
No. We pay customary closing costs including title insurance, recording fees, and transfer taxes. No realtor commission. No buyer credits. No inspection requests. The contract price minus any liens (including the violation fine lien if applicable) is what hits your account at closing.
Get Your Cash Offer Today
The Town isn’t going to stop fining. The Village isn’t going to forget the file. The condemnation placard isn’t coming down without inspection, permits, and contractor work. The retail buyers can’t get a mortgage and the retail agents won’t list it. One call, one written cash offer, one closing, and the building department becomes our problem.