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Selling a Dunmore House Without Putting It on the Market
Dunmore grew up on coal, brick, stone and silk, and most of its houses were built for the families who worked those trades. If you own one of them and would rather not list it, Simply Sold RE will look at it, give you a cash price in writing, and buy it the way it stands today.
The borough counted 14,042 residents and 6,618 housing units in the 2020 census, and better than one resident in five was 65 or older. That age profile explains most of the calls we get from Dunmore. It is usually a parent's house: a Bunker Hill single that has not changed hands in fifty years, a double-block near the Corners with a tenant on one side, or a ranch off the O'Neill Highway that a family now has to empty and sell while living somewhere else.
Two Things That Make a Dunmore Sale Different
Transfer tax. The Lackawanna County Recorder of Deeds puts the combined state and local realty transfer tax at 2% of the price everywhere in the county except Scranton, where it totals 3.7%. Dunmore wraps around the city's east side, so on a street near the line the municipality printed on your tax bill, not the mailing address, decides which rate applies. If your property turns out to be on the city side, our Scranton house buying page covers that market.
A one-borough school district. The county's own district listing shows the Dunmore School District serving Dunmore Borough and nothing else. Families who want that district can only buy inside the borough, which keeps interest steady in finished houses. It does far less for a house that needs a furnace, a roof and new wiring, because those buyers are mostly using FHA or conventional mortgages that come with property condition standards.
Borough office: 400 S. Blakely St, (570) 343-7611. Schools: Dunmore School District, 300 W. Warren St. Colleges: Penn State Scranton is in Dunmore, and part of Marywood University's campus sits inside the borough. Highways: Interstate 84 begins here, and I-81 meets Route 347, the O'Neill Highway, within the borough.
Why Owners Here Call Us Instead of an Agent
- You skip the repairs a lender's appraiser would flag: a sagging porch roof, galvanized supply lines, an oil tank in the cellar, a second kitchen upstairs in a double
- Heirs can leave the furniture, the basement workbench and the shelves of canning jars behind; clearing the house becomes our job
- Settlement can be a week out or two months out, whichever fits your move
- Our 22 Google reviews average 4.8 stars, and you can read every one before you pick up the phone
Ask for a Dunmore Cash Price
Give us the address and tell us what is wrong with the place. We come see it, then put a number on paper.
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- ✅Settle in as few as 7 days
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How a Dunmore Cash Sale Actually Closes
Pennsylvania home sales settle through a title company, and ours follow the same path as any other sale in Lackawanna County. There are simply fewer people involved and no loan to wait on.
Walk-Through
Call (570) 433-9191 or send the form. We set a time to see the house inside and out, cellar and attic included.
Agreement of Sale
You get a written price, then a Pennsylvania Agreement of Sale with no financing or inspection contingency. Your own attorney is welcome to read it first.
Settlement
A local title company searches the title, prepares the deed and settlement sheet, and records with the Recorder of Deeds. We cover title fees and transfer tax.
Dunmore Situations We Buy Through
Each link below opens a guide written for Lackawanna County owners in that exact spot.
Facing Foreclosure
Sell ahead of the county sheriff's sale date and keep whatever equity is left.
Going Through Divorce
One sale, one set of proceeds, divided the way your agreement says.
Inherited Property
We can sign as soon as the Register of Wills issues letters.
Major Repairs Needed
Cracked block walls, a wet cellar, tired wiring: priced in, not fixed.
Relocating
Already moved? Sign with a mobile notary wherever you live now.
Tired Landlord
Doubles with tenants still in place are fine by us.
Behind on Taxes
Pay the Tax Claim Bureau off from the sale, before the upset sale.
Downsizing
Take what fits in the new place and leave us the rest.
Dunmore Sections and Streets We Buy On
People here still give directions by section, so we do too. We buy anywhere in the borough, from the Scranton line out toward Roaring Brook Township and up to the Throop border.
Other NEPA Towns on Our Buying List
Own something outside the borough too? These pages cover the rest of the area we buy in.
Selling Your Dunmore, PA House — Common Questions
Tax, title, timing and the house itself, answered for a property inside the borough.
What Decides the Price of a Dunmore House
We are not going to print a price chart, because Dunmore sales swing too much by street and condition for one to mean anything. What we can tell you is where the money goes. A finished single near the high school draws financed buyers, and a financed buyer brings an appraiser and a home inspector. A 1950s fuse box, a damp cellar or a buried oil tank hands both of them something to write up, and the price gets renegotiated after you thought it was settled.
A cash sale skips that second round. Before we make an offer we have already been in the basement and already priced the repairs, so the figure on the Agreement of Sale is the figure on the settlement sheet, less your own mortgage payoff and any liens. Here is how the usual costs land either way:
| Cost at Settlement | Listing With an Agent | Selling to Simply Sold RE |
|---|---|---|
| Realty transfer tax (2% combined in Dunmore) | Usually split between buyer and seller in the agreement | We pay it |
| Sales commission | Negotiated with your listing agent | None |
| Title and settlement fees | Divided as the agreement sets out | We pay them |
| Repairs demanded after inspection | Negotiated, often as a price cut or credit | None; condition is already in the price |
| County, borough and school taxes | Prorated to the settlement date | Prorated to the settlement date |
One Borough, One School District
Most Lackawanna County districts take in several municipalities. Riverside, for example, covers both Moosic and Taylor. Dunmore is one of the exceptions: the Recorder of Deeds' district listing shows the Dunmore School District serving the borough alone. For a seller, that means every buyer who wants the district is shopping the same few thousand houses, and a well-kept one rarely lacks attention.
The same buyers are the reason a dated house struggles. A family stretching to get into the district is usually borrowing, and lenders generally won't fund a house an appraiser flags as unsafe or unsound. If yours needs heat, a roof or electrical work before a bank will touch it, that is exactly the house we buy.
Dunmore's Housing Stock, Honestly Described
Dunmore went from 8,315 people in 1890 to 23,086 in 1940, and a large share of the borough's houses went up during that climb. It shows in what we find on walk-throughs:
- Double-block homes: two side-by-side units under one roof, often with the owner on one side and a tenant on the other. Separate meters are common but not guaranteed, and a shared roof means one side's leak is both sides' problem.
- Stone and early block foundations: spring seepage, white mineral bloom on cellar walls and stair-step cracks are ordinary in pre-war cellars here. Each still belongs on your disclosure if you know about it, which our Pennsylvania seller disclosure guide walks through.
- Coal-era ground: the Pennsylvania Coal Company turned a four-house village into a mining town in 1847 and 1848, and houses above old workings can settle over time.
- Original systems: knob-and-tube circuits behind plaster, oil boilers and cast-iron drains still turn up, especially in houses that stayed in one family for decades.
Homeowner's policies usually leave out mine subsidence, so the Pennsylvania DEP sells its own coverage: about 27 cents per $1,000 a year, or $41.25 for $150,000 of residential coverage at DEP's published rate. If you carry a policy, it does not pass to your buyer; DEP says new owners must apply for their own. Our guide to selling a house with mine subsidence in NEPA shows how to check whether an address sits over a mine.
Who Sells to Us in Dunmore
Most Dunmore sellers we meet fall into one of these groups:
- Executors and administrators: before anyone can sign a deed for someone who has died, the Lackawanna County Register of Wills (123 Wyoming Ave, 5th Floor; 570-963-6702) has to issue letters. A fiduciary selling while administering an estate is generally excused from Pennsylvania's seller disclosure form, though knowingly hiding a defect is still off-limits. More on how we buy inherited houses.
- Owners behind on taxes: unpaid Dunmore taxes end up with the Lackawanna County Tax Claim Bureau (Government Center, 123 Wyoming Ave, 2nd Floor; 570-963-6734). Selling before the upset sale pays the Bureau at settlement and leaves the balance with you. Our Lackawanna County tax sale guide lays out the calendar.
- Landlords with doubles: Dunmore has a rental registration ordinance (Ordinance 4 of 2025) and an online registration portal, one more piece of upkeep for owners of rented units. We buy with the tenants still living there. To see how a two-unit purchase with complications actually went, read our Wilkes-Barre probate and lien double project.
- People moving on: if you are heading to an apartment or to family, we can set settlement after your move, or put a short stay after settlement in writing. See selling now and moving later.
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