We Buy Houses in Old Forge, PA Fast for Cash
Sell your Old Forge home the way it is, to a local buyer who pays cash. We see the house, hand you a written price, and meet you at a title office to settle, on whatever day works for you.
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A Cash Buyer for Old Forge's Older Homes
Old Forge takes its name from an iron forge that Dr. William Smith and James Sutton built in 1789 on the south bank of the Lackawanna River, the oldest in the region. The borough itself dates to 1899, and a lot of its houses are nearly as old. Simply Sold RE buys them in whatever shape they are in, for cash, without a listing.
Only 3.5 square miles and 8,524 people at the 2020 census, Old Forge sits about five miles southwest of downtown Scranton and twelve northeast of Wilkes-Barre. It was an anthracite and textile town first. Italian families, most of them from the mountain village of Felitto near Salerno, came for the mines in the early 1900s, and their rectangular trays of pizza eventually earned the town its "Pizza Capital of the World" nickname. Plenty of those families still own the houses their grandparents bought, which is why estate sales make up so much of what we see here.
When a Cash Sale Beats Listing in Old Forge
A clean, updated Old Forge house can usually find a buyer through an agent. The trouble starts with the houses that have not been touched in a generation. A buyer using a mortgage needs the house to pass an appraisal and usually a home inspection, and a century-old cellar, a roof past its life or an electrical panel from the 1950s gives both inspections plenty to write down. Each item becomes a request for a credit or a lower price, weeks after you thought the deal was done.
We price those problems before we make an offer, so there is nothing left to renegotiate. You also skip showings, open houses and the months of heating, insuring and mowing an empty house while it sits on the market.
Borough office: 310 South Main Street, (570) 457-8852, open weekdays 9 to 4. Council meets the third Tuesday of each month. Schools: Old Forge School District, 300 Marion St. Transfer tax: 2% combined state and local, per the Lackawanna County Recorder of Deeds. Neighbors: Taylor and Moosic, both in the Riverside School District.
What Old Forge Sellers Get From Us
- An offer that already accounts for the stone foundation, the knob-and-tube and the 1970s bathroom, so no one comes back asking for money off
- No cleanout: leave the dining room set, the tools in the garage and the boxes in the attic
- Settlement in as little as a week, or later if you need time to move
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What Is Your Old Forge House Worth to Us?
Send the address or call. We walk through, then give you a firm price you can take or leave.
- ✅Written offer within 24 hours
- ✅Closing possible in 7 days
- ✅Nothing paid to an agent
- ✅Any condition, contents too
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From Phone Call to Title Office
Pennsylvania sales settle through a title company, not a closing attorney. With no bank involved on our side, the only waiting is for the title search.
We See the House
Reach us at (570) 433-9191 or through the form, and we arrange a walk-through at a time that suits you or your family.
You Get a Firm Price
If the number works, we sign a standard Pennsylvania Agreement of Sale with no mortgage or inspection contingency.
Settlement Day
The title company clears the title, pays off any mortgage or tax claim from the proceeds, and records the deed. We pay the title charges and transfer tax.
Old Forge Homes We Buy, Whatever the Reason
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Facing Foreclosure
A sale can pay the lender before the sheriff's sale is held.
Going Through Divorce
Turn the house into proceeds you can divide and be done.
Inherited Property
Grandmother's house, furniture and all, once letters are issued.
Major Repairs Needed
Water in the cellar or a roof at its end: we buy it unfixed.
Relocating
Moving for work? Close from wherever the new job is.
Tired Landlord
Two-family and tenant-occupied houses are welcome.
Behind on Taxes
Clear the Lackawanna tax claim at settlement.
Downsizing
Moving somewhere smaller without a yard sale first.
Where We Buy in Old Forge
Old Forge is small enough that every street is close to Main Street or the river. We buy on all of them, and in the towns on either side.
More Towns Where We Buy Houses
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Selling Your Old Forge, PA House — Common Questions
What Old Forge owners ask us most about tax, title, timing and older houses.
Old Forge Homes and the Buyers They Attract
Old Forge is known far beyond its size, mostly for its pizza, and a well-kept house here rarely struggles for attention. We will not publish price ranges or days-on-market figures for a borough this small, because a handful of sales can move them a long way. The useful question for a seller is simpler: would a buyer's lender and inspector be comfortable with your house as it stands?
If the answer is yes, list it. If the answer is "not without a new roof, a new panel and a dry basement," then you are choosing between paying for that work, cutting the price during the inspection round, or selling to a buyer who has already priced it in. That last group is where we fit.
Tradition Holds Houses in Families, Which Shapes How They Sell
The pizza story is also a housing story. The mining families who settled Old Forge stayed, and plenty of houses have passed from parents to children more than once without ever being listed. By the time one does come up for sale, it often has decades-old systems, a lifetime of belongings inside and heirs spread across several states.
Those are the sales we handle most often here. Executors and administrators need letters from the Lackawanna County Register of Wills (123 Wyoming Ave, 5th Floor; 570-963-6702) before they can sign a deed. A fiduciary selling in the course of administering an estate is generally excused from Pennsylvania's seller disclosure form, though concealing a known defect is still not allowed. Our probate and inheritance tax guide for NEPA heirs covers the rest.
Old Forge School District, and Why Buyers Mix It Up With Riverside
According to the Lackawanna County Recorder of Deeds, the Old Forge School District covers Old Forge Borough alone, while neighboring Moosic and Taylor belong to the Riverside School District. Buyers from outside the area sometimes assume the three towns share schools. They do not, and a buyer who wants the Blue Devils has only this borough to shop in.
At settlement, the title company prorates county, borough and Old Forge school taxes to the day, so you pay only for the time you owned the house. If any of those taxes went unpaid and were returned to the Lackawanna County Tax Claim Bureau (Government Center, 123 Wyoming Ave, 2nd Floor; 570-963-6734), the payoff comes out of the sale proceeds before you are paid. Our guide to Lackawanna County tax sales explains the deadlines, and our tax lien page covers selling with back taxes.
Old Forge Housing: Coal-Era Foundations and River Lots
Deep mining shaped Old Forge until the Knox Mine Disaster of January 1959 all but ended it in the area. What it left behind is still visible in Old Forge houses:
- Double-block and two-family homes on narrow lots, many with a unit rented out. Have the leases and security deposit records ready for settlement; we buy with tenants in place.
- Stone and early block cellars that take on water in wet springs, with the efflorescence and patched cracks to show for it.
- Ground above old workings. Standard homeowner's insurance usually excludes mine subsidence, so Pennsylvania's DEP sells separate coverage at about 27 cents per $1,000 a year. A policy stays with the owner, not the house: DEP requires a new owner to apply for their own. Our NEPA mine subsidence selling guide explains how to check an address.
- Lots near the Lackawanna River. If your house is close to the water, a buyer's lender will check the flood map, and flood insurance can become a condition of the loan. A cash buyer does not add that step.
Two-family houses with an estate and a lien on the title are more common than you might expect. Read how we handled one in our Wilkes-Barre probate and lien project, and see Pittston and Scranton if you own property in either.
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