By Andrew & Tony Bertucci, Bertucci Investment Group
If a parent or grandparent left you a house in Kenner and you are trying to figure out what to actually do with it, this page is for you. Louisiana succession, out-of-state siblings, a house that has been sitting closed up since the funeral, taxes and insurance still pulling every month. That is the exact situation we buy through every week. This is a straight guide for Kenner families who want a cash offer on an inherited property and want to close on their own timeline, not the court’s.
We are Bertucci Investment Group. We buy houses for cash across Jefferson Parish and the greater New Orleans area. If the inherited house is in Kenner (all ZIPs: 70062, 70063, 70064, 70065), this page is for you. Text or call us at (504) 920-4747 and we will set up a walk-through this week.
Why inherited Kenner houses end up in our pipeline
Kenner has one of the older housing stocks in Jefferson Parish. A lot of the 1960s and 1970s slab-on-grade brick ranches in University City, Chateau Estates, Woodlake, and Susan Park were bought by the generation that raised families through the airport-expansion years, and those houses are now moving through succession as parents pass. The heirs are almost always in one of these situations:
- You live out of state. The kids moved to Texas, Georgia, or the Carolinas years ago. Nobody wants to fly in every few weekends to cut the grass, chase a leak, or meet a Realtor.
- Multiple heirs, no consensus. Three siblings, none on the same page about price, repairs, or timing. A cash offer with a clear net number breaks the logjam.
- The succession is still open. Louisiana probate takes time. The house is burning through insurance, taxes, and utilities every month; the mortgage is still accruing.
- Deferred maintenance. Mom or Dad stopped putting money into the house the last five or ten years. Roof, AC, water heater, electrical panel: everything is due.
- Post-Ida damage never fully repaired, or the house sits inside the Louis Armstrong airport-noise 65+ DNL contour that spooks financed retail buyers.
How Louisiana succession works when you sell to us
A Louisiana succession is the court process that transfers legal ownership of a decedent’s property to the heirs. Until the succession is opened and the court signs off, technically no one has clean title to sell. But that does not mean you have to wait until every step is complete before talking to a cash buyer. In practice we run the succession alongside the purchase agreement.
Here is what usually happens: we do a walk-through of the Kenner house and put a cash number in front of the heirs. If the heirs accept, we sign a purchase agreement contingent on the succession judgment or an independent administration order. The succession attorney (yours or one we can refer) files the petition and moves the case to a judgment of possession or an order authorizing sale. Our closing attorney coordinates directly with the succession attorney. When the court paperwork is ready, we close. Every heir signs, in person or by mail-away if they are out of state, and the net proceeds are distributed per the judgment.
Timeline: a straightforward succession with a valid will and cooperative heirs often lands 30 to 90 days from petition. A more complex situation — an intestate case, an absent heir, a curator appointment, a homologation issue — takes longer. We wait. The point of a cash sale on an inherited house is never speed for its own sake; it is certainty. You know the number, you know the buyer will still be there when the court is ready.
What we buy in Kenner
Every neighborhood, every Kenner ZIP, every condition. Original 1960s-70s brick ranches with single-pane windows and old electrical panels; houses inside the Louis Armstrong airport-noise contour that financed buyers shy away from; active roof leaks and dead HVAC; open Jefferson Parish Code Enforcement violations; unpaid property tax; existing tenants (paying or not); houses that flooded in a prior storm. The offer prices the condition. You do not repair, clean out, or negotiate an inspection response. What is in the house stays; we handle removal after closing.
What the heirs net at closing
Whatever is left after payoffs comes back to the estate for distribution. That means the mortgage (if any), property tax arrears, code fines, hospital or Medicaid estate-recovery liens, and any judgment liens against the decedent get satisfied out of the sale proceeds. The remainder gets distributed per the judgment of possession, or per the terms of the succession if independent administration is being used.
No Realtor commissions on our side, no repair credits, no financing contingencies that fall through at underwriting, no months of carry while the house sits on the market. If the equity is thin after payoffs, we tell you straight, no wasted family time on an offer that will not close. If the numbers work, we hand you a purchase agreement and a target closing date that fits the succession.
Ready to see what a real cash offer on the Kenner house looks like? Start on our Kenner cash-buyer page or call or text (504) 920-4747. We will set up a walk-through this week, and the family decides whether the number works.
Frequently asked questions
Can I sell the Kenner house if the Louisiana succession is not finished yet?
You can sign a purchase agreement now and close when the court paperwork is ready. Our closing attorney coordinates with the succession attorney; the purchase runs on a parallel track to the succession. A judgment of possession or an independent administration order authorizing the sale is what puts the closing on the calendar. We do this on Kenner and Metairie inherited houses all the time.
What if the other heirs are spread across different states?
That is the norm on inherited Kenner houses. Every heir has to sign, but nobody has to fly in. Our closing attorney runs mail-away closings for out-of-state heirs — signed documents go out overnight, come back overnight, and get recorded with the local Kenner signatures. If one heir will not respond, that is a succession-attorney problem (an absentee curator can be appointed) and it may add time, but it does not kill the deal.
Will you still buy the Kenner house if it has been sitting empty and needs work?
Yes. Empty inherited houses are our normal. Deferred maintenance, an old AC that has not run in a year, a leaking roof, the fridge that got left with the door closed — we buy it in the condition it stands and price the condition into the offer. You do not clean it out; we handle removal after closing.
Does the Louis Armstrong airport-noise zone affect the cash offer?
A Kenner house inside the FAA 65+ DNL contour can be tougher to sell on the retail market because some financed buyers walk away and some insurers price it up. It does not stop us. We buy inside the contour every year. The offer accounts for the market’s discount on those blocks, not a walk-away.
What about property tax arrears or a code-enforcement lien on the Kenner house?
Both get handled at closing. Unpaid Kenner or Jefferson Parish property tax comes out of the sale proceeds through the title work; a Jefferson Parish Code Enforcement lien or fine gets paid off from proceeds as well. The heirs do not need to pay anything down before we close. The number on the purchase agreement is the gross price; the net to the estate is what is left after those payoffs.
Ready for a real number on the inherited Kenner house? Call or text (504) 920-4747, or start with our Kenner cash-buyer page. Also useful: our Jefferson Parish cash-buyer page and our Metairie cash-buyer page if the property is nearby.