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Uniondale, Long Island, NY

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Why Uniondale sellers call us.

Street view of Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale NY where EZ Home Buyers pays cash for houses

Uniondale sits in the middle of everything in central Nassau. Hofstra University on one side, the old Nassau Coliseum grounds on the other, the Meadowbrook and the Southern State minutes away. For homeowners, that location cuts both ways. Demand for rooms and rentals is constant, but so is the wear on houses that have been rented hard for years, and so is the attention from code enforcement.

Aerial map of Uniondale, NY
Aerial map of Uniondale, NY

Uniondale is an unincorporated hamlet, which means the Town of Hempstead handles building and code enforcement rather than a village hall. The Town takes illegal conversions seriously, and Uniondale sees plenty of them: basements turned into apartments, garages turned into rooms, single-family capes quietly housing three households near the university. When a citation lands, owners face a choice between expensive legalization, expensive de-conversion, or selling. We buy houses with open Town violations and handle the corrections after closing, which turns the worst version of that problem into a two-week exit.

The housing stock here is classic postwar Nassau: capes and expanded ranches built in the forties and fifties, many still owned by the families who bought them new or by the children who inherited them. An inherited Uniondale cape often needs everything at once, roof, boiler, kitchens, bathrooms, and the heirs rarely live close enough to manage a renovation. Listing a dated house means months of showings to buyers who all want it move-in ready. We buy those houses exactly as they stand, full of furniture if that is how it is, and we close on the estate’s timeline.

Landlords call us from Uniondale for a different reason than they do from the village downtowns. Student-area rentals turn over every year, and every turnover costs paint, repairs, and vacancy. After enough cycles, the house has given what it is going to give. We buy rental properties occupied or empty, mid-lease or between tenants, and we take the property in whatever condition the last decade of tenants left it.

Our process is the same across the metro and has been since 2000. You reach out, we look at the house in person or virtually, and you get a written cash offer with the math laid out line by line. No commissions, no fees, no cleanout, no showings, no financing contingency. Accept, and a local title company runs the closing on the date you choose. Most Uniondale closings can happen inside two to three weeks.

We are family owned and we work these blocks ourselves. If your property is in the 11553 ZIP code, or anywhere in the surrounding hamlets, we would like to take a look.

Uniondale Avenue in Uniondale, NY
Uniondale Avenue in Uniondale, NY

Uniondale sits next to the biggest redevelopment story in Nassau County: the Coliseum property and the surrounding Hub acreage, where every few years a new master plan makes headlines and investor mail floods the surrounding blocks. Owners near Hempstead Turnpike and the Meadowbrook hear promises about what their street will be worth someday. Someday is not a price. If the speculation has you thinking about selling, our written offer gives you what the house is worth now, with the math shown, so you can decide with a real number instead of a rendering.

Being unincorporated, Uniondale answers to the Town of Hempstead for building and code matters, and the town has been active here for years on exactly the thing this hamlet is known for: converted spaces. Finished basements with kitchens, attics that became bedrooms, garages that became apartments, most of them built decently and none of them filed. Between Hofstra and Nassau Community College next door, the rental demand that encouraged those conversions never lets up. When a citation finally lands or a lender flags the layout, the retail sale dies. Ours does not. Unfiled space is a pricing detail for us, not a dealbreaker, and the town paperwork afterward is our job.

The student rental economy deserves its own mention, because it creates a specific kind of tired landlord. A house near the campuses rents by the room, turns over every spring, and ages in dog years. After a decade the spreadsheet still says profitable while the building says otherwise, and the owner is done being a September repairman. We buy those houses with the leases in place, mid-semester or empty for the summer, and the students simply get a new landlord with a bigger repair budget.

For families settling estates here, the pattern is the same one we see across west Nassau: the house bought in the sixties by parents who never left, inherited by children in other states, holding both a lifetime of belongings and an unpermitted apartment that helped pay the mortgage for thirty years. We handle that whole bundle, the probate coordination, the contents, the paperwork, the tenants if any, in one closing on the estate’s schedule.

A practical note on paperwork for Uniondale families: many of the houses we buy here sit in estates where no one is quite sure what the town has on file, what the mortgage payoff really is, or whether an old lien from a decades-past project ever got released. Part of what you hire a cash buyer for is that our title company untangles all of it before closing, and the written offer gets updated so the family sees exactly what clears and what remains. Nobody has to become a records expert to sell their parents’ house.

Commuters underrate Uniondale and investors do not: the Meadowbrook is at the corner, the Southern State minutes away, and the bus corridors on Front Street and Uniondale Avenue connect straight into the Hempstead hub. That access is why renovated houses here rent and resell without drama, and that liquidity is what stands behind our offers. When we price your house against its finished value, the finished value is real because the demand underneath it is.

Closing day itself is deliberately unremarkable. You sign at the title company or remotely, the payoffs and prorated taxes settle exactly as the written offer itemized, and the balance wires to you, usually the same afternoon. Whatever you chose to leave in the house stays for our crew, keys change hands, and the Uniondale chapter closes in about an hour of your time.

One practical note for Uniondale owners weighing their options: if back taxes are part of the picture, you can confirm exactly what is owed through the Nassau County Treasurer before you decide anything. Bring us the real number and we will build the offer math around it.

Common reasons Uniondale sellers call us.

A Cited Illegal Conversion in Uniondale

Basement apartments and converted garages are everywhere near Hofstra, and the Town of Hempstead cites them steadily. Legalizing costs real money and de-converting kills the rental income that justified the house. We buy cited properties as they are and deal with the Town after closing, so the violation becomes our project instead of your fine schedule.

An Inherited Postwar Cape

Uniondale capes have stayed in families for fifty and sixty years, and when they pass to heirs they usually need everything at once. We work with estate attorneys, close on the probate timeline, and buy the house with the contents still in it. Take the photo albums, leave the rest.

A Student Rental That Has Given Enough

Yearly turnover near the university grinds a house down. If the annual cycle of repairs, vacancies, and new leases has stopped making sense, we buy rental houses in rented-hard condition, occupied or empty, and the next turnover becomes our problem.

Tenants Who Stopped Paying

Nassau eviction cases move slowly, and every month in court is a month of carrying costs with no rent. We buy occupied houses mid-case. The legal situation transfers to us at closing and you leave with your equity instead of a court date.

Behind on Town and County Taxes

Nassau taxes do not pause while you figure things out, and arrears compound toward a lien sale faster than most owners expect. A cash closing can complete in about two weeks, pay the arrears out of the proceeds at the table, and protect the equity you have left.

A House That Needs Too Much Work to List

Old wiring, a roof past its life, a kitchen from 1968. Financed buyers cannot close on a house like that and agents will tell you to renovate first. We price the work openly and buy the house without you touching a thing.

Foreclosure Getting Close

If a lis pendens has arrived or an auction date is set, speed decides everything. We have closed Nassau purchases in under two weeks, ahead of the auction, so the sale happens on your terms and the foreclosure never finishes.

A Vacant House Near the University

Empty houses in Uniondale attract exactly the attention you do not want, from code complaints to break-ins. If you are paying taxes and insurance on a house nobody lives in, we can turn it into cash in a few weeks.

A Student Rental You Are Done Rebuilding Every June

Room-by-room rent near the campuses is good money and brutal wear. When the September repair list finally outweighs the spreadsheet, we buy with the leases in place and the students get a landlord with a crew.

Hub-Area Speculators Keep Calling

Renderings are not offers. We give you a written number for what the house is worth today, with the math shown, so the redevelopment noise becomes background instead of pressure.

Frequently asked questions about selling in Uniondale.

How do I sell my house fast in Uniondale?

Call (516) 964-7222 or submit the short form on this page. We visit the property, make a written cash offer within 24 hours, and you pick the closing date, often seven to fourteen days out. No agents, no repairs, no fees, and no obligation to accept.

How fast can you close on a house in Uniondale, NY?

Two to three weeks is typical once you accept the written offer, and we have closed faster when a foreclosure or tax deadline demanded it. There is no bank and no appraisal in a cash sale, which removes the slowest parts of a normal closing. If you need a later date instead, you choose it and we work around you.

The Town of Hempstead cited my house for an illegal apartment. Can you still buy it?

Yes, and this is one of the most common Uniondale situations we see. We buy houses with open Town violations, illegal conversions, and unpermitted work. The citation gets priced into the offer transparently, we close, and the legalization or correction becomes our responsibility, not yours.

Do you buy houses with tenants or student renters still living there?

Yes. Occupied is fine, whether the tenants are paying or not and whether there is a case in housing court or not. Leases and any pending legal matters transfer to us at closing. You never need to empty the house or finish an eviction to sell to us.

I inherited a house in Uniondale and live out of state. How does this work?

Mostly by phone and email, honestly. We coordinate with the estate attorney, do the walkthrough in person while you join by video if you want, and close on the timeline probate allows. You do not need to fly in, clean anything out, or manage contractors from another state. Many of our estate closings happen without the heirs ever visiting the property.

How do you come up with your offer number?

We start with what the house would sell for fully renovated, then subtract realistic repair costs, carrying costs, and closing costs, and show you every line of that math in the written offer. Nothing is hidden in the number. If you get other offers, you can compare ours line by line against them.

Do I need to clean out the house before closing?

No. Take what you want and leave everything else, furniture, clothes, a basement full of boxes. We handle the cleanout and disposal after closing at our expense. For inherited houses this is usually the part families are most relieved to hand off.

What if I owe back taxes or have liens on the property?

Arrears, penalties, water bills, and liens get paid off directly from the sale proceeds at closing. The title company calculates the exact payoffs in advance, so the offer shows you precisely what clears and what you walk away with. You bring nothing to the table. You can confirm your current balance with the Nassau County Treasurer before you call us.

Can you close before my foreclosure auction date?

Usually, if there is any runway at all. A cash purchase can complete in under two weeks when needed, which stops the auction and preserves your remaining equity. The earlier you reach out the more options exist, but we have completed rescues with only days left.

Are there any fees or commissions when I sell to you?

None. No commissions, no listing fees, and we cover standard closing costs. The number on the written offer is what reaches you, less only whatever existing debts on the property are paid off through the sale.

Which areas around Uniondale do you cover?

All of the 11553 ZIP code, from the Hofstra edge to Nassau Boulevard, plus the surrounding communities: Hempstead, East Meadow, Roosevelt, Westbury, and the rest of Nassau County. Anywhere on Long Island, we will look at the property.

Everyone says the Hub redevelopment will raise values. Should I wait to sell?

That is a personal call, but be clear-eyed about the history: plans for the Coliseum property have been announced, revised, and restarted for two decades while carrying costs continued the whole time. A house that costs you money every month needs more than a rendering to justify holding. Our offer tells you what now is worth, in writing, and now is the only number anyone can actually pay you.

My house has a basement apartment near the colleges. Is that a problem for the sale?

Not for ours. Unfiled apartments near Hofstra and NCC are the single most common feature of the Uniondale houses we buy. Financed deals die on them, ours close on them. We buy the house as it stands, tenants included if they are there, and square the record with the Town of Hempstead afterward at our cost.

Can you buy my rental while students are living in it mid-semester?

Yes. The leases transfer to us at closing and the tenants finish their term with us as the landlord. You do not need to wait for May, deliver the house empty, or manage one more turnover. We regularly close on student rentals in the middle of the school year.

The town cited my property. Do I have to fix the violations before selling?

No. Open Town of Hempstead violations transfer with the property to us, and resolving them after closing is our specialty and our expense. Fixing code items just to sell usually means spending retail renovation money to satisfy a checklist, which is exactly the spending a cash sale exists to avoid.

We are not sure what liens or old permits exist on the house. How do we find out?

You do not have to. Our title company pulls the full county and town record as part of every purchase, finds old liens and open permits, and prices their resolution into the closing. Surprises surface before you commit, not after, and clearing the record is our work rather than a homework assignment for the family.

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