Sell your with back taxes owed Des Moines house for cash — we buy direct
Owing back property taxes doesn't stop you from selling — but it does compress the timeline before the county can move to tax sale. A cash sale pays off the taxes directly from the proceeds at closing, often before any auction would happen. We buy tax-delinquent property routinely and can close on these.
Lockwood Home Buyers makes cash offers directly to homeowners — no fees, no commissions, and no obligation to accept. We are not a real-estate agent or broker; we buy houses for cash.
How the Iowa timeline works
Iowa is a judicial-foreclosure state — the case runs through the district court, typically taking several months or more.
Iowa handles title differently from every other state: there is no conventional title insurance — title work runs on abstracts and attorney title opinions (with Iowa Title Guaranty available). It works fine for cash sales; it just means the title step involves an attorney.