Case Study: How We Bought 622 N Pierce Street, New Orleans | Bertucci Investment Group

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Property snapshot

Address	622 N Pierce Street, New Orleans, LA
Situation at intake	Three siblings inherited the property. Title defects. Open succession. Zero appetite among heirs to referee each other for a year.
Sale type	All cash. BIG carried the succession work. BIG covered every closing cost.
Renovation status	BIG’s biggest renovation to date. Essentially like-new construction in the heart of New Orleans.

The situation

Three siblings inherited 622 N Pierce. On paper, an inherited house sounds like a windfall. In Louisiana, an inherited house with three names on it and a messy title history is closer to a group project none of the group signed up for.

There were succession issues. There were title issues. And there were three human beings, each with their own life, their own bills, their own opinion on when to sell and for how much, trying to get on the same page long enough to make a decision.

They didn’t want to fight each other. They didn’t want to sink years and thousands of dollars into a succession attorney before anyone saw a check. They wanted the property gone, cleanly, so all three of them could get on with their lives.

Why Louisiana successions are their own animal

If you’ve inherited property outside Louisiana, none of what happened here would sound familiar. Louisiana is the only U.S. state on the Napoleonic civil code. Every other state runs on English common law. The difference is not academic.

Successions go through court. There is no simple joint-tenancy transfer where the surviving heirs automatically inherit and you go sell the house next week. A Louisiana succession is a legal proceeding, filed and adjudicated by the parish court, with its own timeline and its own bill.
Forced heirship still shapes ownership. Louisiana law protects certain heirs (particularly minor children and, in some situations, children with permanent disabilities) whether the deceased’s will accounted for them or not. That means figuring out who actually owns the property is not always a one-page answer.
The title defects compound the succession. If the succession from a grandparent never closed properly, if there’s an old lien nobody paid attention to, if a signature is missing from a decades-old transfer: none of that surfaces until you try to sell to a retail buyer and their title insurance company says no.
A title company won’t insure a title that isn’t clear. No title insurance means no retail buyer, means no traditional sale. Period. You cannot list your way out of a title defect.

See our deeper walk-through in how to sell an inherited house in Louisiana (succession) and documents required for selling inherited property in Louisiana.

Why a traditional sale wasn’t mathematically possible

Three heirs, equal say, no forcing function. Retail listings assume one seller (or a couple) with unified decision-making. Three siblings weighing in on repairs, list price, showing schedule, and every offer that came in was a recipe for a listing that never left the runway.
Title defects would kill any retail buyer’s title insurance. Even if the siblings agreed on everything, the moment a traditional buyer’s underwriter saw the title, the deal was dead.
The succession attorney’s retainer had to come from somewhere. Nobody in the family wanted to write that check up front on a property they were trying to unload.
Time was the hidden cost. Every month the property sat in limbo was another month of taxes, insurance, upkeep, and the low background stress of a family asset nobody could actually use.

Retail wasn’t a slow option. It was an unavailable option.

How BIG helped

We took the mess on ourselves.

We ran the succession and title work through our own closing attorney. The siblings didn’t have to hire, pay, or coordinate a separate attorney. We drove the process.
We coordinated the three siblings under one point of contact. They didn’t have to negotiate against each other. Every question came to us, every answer went back through us, and the family got to stay a family instead of three counterparties.
We covered every closing cost, including the succession filings. There was no line item on their side of the settlement statement.
We closed fairly quick once title cleared. The moment the legal work landed, we were ready. No waiting on financing, no last-minute contingencies, no buyer getting cold feet.

The outcome

Title cleared. A property that legally could not have been sold to a retail buyer became a property with a clean, insurable title.
All three siblings walked away with their shares in cash. Clean, itemized, done.
No fighting. No legal bills on their side. No family sitting in a parish court hallway for the next two years.
And then we did the part that matters to a whole neighborhood: we made this our biggest renovation to date. Essentially like-new construction, right in the heart of New Orleans. What started as a stuck, inheritable-only-on-paper property is now a fully rebuilt home ready for its next family.

That transformation is why 622 N Pierce sits at the top of this page. It’s the strongest single answer to the question we get most often — “but what if my situation is really complicated?” This one was really complicated. It closed clean. It rebuilt beautifully. So can yours.

What this means if you’re in a similar spot

If you’ve inherited property in Louisiana, this is the case study that’s most likely about you.

Anyone whose family has property tied up in an open or unfinished succession.
Anyone co-owning inherited property with siblings, cousins, or step-family, and finding out how hard it is to agree on anything.
Anyone whose title is messy: old liens, missing signatures, generations of skipped paperwork.
Anyone with an old-family property in New Orleans that could be beautiful again but needs a buyer willing to do the real work.

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Fill out the form on this page or call/text Andrew and Tony directly at (504) 920-4747. If your situation is complicated, this is the number to call. That’s what we’re here for.