Non-paying tenants, 2 a.m. maintenance calls, rent caps, just-cause rules, and a property manager who bills you either way. You don’t have to evict anyone or wait for a vacancy to exit: investors in our network buy San Diego rentals occupied, and they inherit the lease, the tenants, and the headaches at closing.
Your tenants’ routine is barely disturbed — most sales happen with one brief visit or exterior-only review.
Units, rents, lease terms (month-to-month or fixed), and honestly how it’s going — paying, behind, or not paying at all. Every situation here has been seen before.
Buyers price from records, comparable sales, and an exterior or single brief walkthrough. No parade of showings through your tenants’ homes, no notices taped to doors every weekend.
The lease transfers, security deposits credit through escrow, and the new owner takes over the tenant relationship from day one. You collect your proceeds and stop being the landlord.
Between statewide rent caps and just-cause eviction rules under AB 1482, local ordinances, and rising maintenance and insurance costs, plenty of longtime owners have simply had enough — especially owners of older duplexes, triplexes, and small multifamily buildings where every vacancy means a renovation bill. The traditional exit (empty the building, renovate, list) can take six months and six figures. Selling as-is to an investor takes weeks and zero dollars.
Occupied is not a defect to these buyers — many prefer it. In-place tenants mean day-one income. Below-market rents, longtime tenants, Section 8 contracts, month-to-month arrangements: all workable, all priced transparently into the offer.
If the tenant is behind on rent, mid-dispute, or simply difficult, say so up front — it gets disclosed anyway, and it rarely kills a deal. Investors underwrite the tenancy exactly as it is; a non-paying tenant just becomes part of the price. What you avoid is months of eviction process, legal fees, and an empty unit you’re still insuring, followed by a renovation you’re funding.
Curious what the numbers look like before you commit to anything? Our guide on how cash buyers actually price San Diego property shows the math openly, and the comparison page puts a cash exit next to a traditional listing so you can judge with real numbers.
No. The property sells subject to the existing tenancy — the lease and security deposits transfer to the buyer at closing, and the tenants simply have a new landlord. Fixed leases, month-to-month, and Section 8 are all workable.
Minimally. Investors typically price from records and an exterior review plus at most one scheduled walkthrough with proper notice — not weeks of open houses through an occupied home.
Yes. Buyers in our network purchase properties with delinquent or difficult tenancies regularly; the situation is disclosed and reflected in the offer. It’s routinely faster and cheaper than completing an eviction and renovation yourself.
Yes — duplexes through small multifamily buildings across San Diego County, occupied or vacant, are core stock for our buyer network. Mixed occupancy (one unit vacant, one occupied) is fine too.
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