Straight talk about selling a Franklin County house.
No fluff and no scare tactics. These are the questions sellers actually ask us, answered the way we’d answer them on the phone.
Selling an inherited house in Franklin County, PA: the Register of Wills, inheritance tax, and the disclosure exemption
Pennsylvania taxes inheritances and Maryland does not. Here is the order of operations for an executor selling a parent’s house in Franklin County, from the short certificate to the REV-1500.
Read the articleThe Franklin County tax sale timeline: from delinquent to upset sale to judicial sale
The Franklin County Tax Claim Bureau sells at upset sale every September and at judicial sale a few months later. Here is the calendar that gets a house onto those lists, where the list is published, and the last point at which a sale still saves your equity.
Read the articleSelling a rental in Chambersburg or Waynesboro, PA: the license, the tenant, and the reassessment question
Chambersburg inspects rentals every 36 months and Waynesboro will not license one with a tenant already inside. Here is how a landlord sells with the tenant in place, and why the reassessment fight matters to the number.
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