A Lakewood ranch, bought exactly as it stood
Four decades of belongings. A basement packed to the joists. A bathroom ceiling that had already given way above the shower. Every agent who looked at it opened the conversation with a list of things that needed fixing first.
Windcrest bought it as-is — nothing cleaned out, nothing repaired, nothing staged. The photos below show the house as we found it, and as it stands today: an opened living and kitchen, a rebuilt bathroom, a finished basement, a cleared yard.
If your house looks anything like these photos, that is not a problem for us. You don't need to clean it out, fix it up, or apologize for it.
Living Room
A 1926 Colorado Springs house that had outlasted its systems
A coal stove still standing in the block-walled basement, beside a water heater long past its service life. A bedroom ceiling down. A cellar door rotted through at the base where water had been running in for years. Out back, an open-sided workshop and a yard's worth of equipment.
Windcrest bought it as it stood. The photos below show the house as we found it, and how it finished: an opened kitchen and living area, a rebuilt bath, a finished basement, a cleared and refenced lot.
Old houses with old problems are the ones we want. A failing roof, a basement you'd rather not go into, an outbuilding holding forty years of equipment — those are reasons to call us, not reasons to wait.
Front Exterior
No photo of the front exists from before — this is how it finished.
An Aurora two-story that had been let go a room at a time
Nothing dramatic had failed here — it had just been years since anything was touched. Stained walls and matted carpet in the bedrooms. A kitchen still built around an oak peninsula and worn tile. A bathroom that hadn't changed since it was installed. Out back, a yard gone to seed against a leaning retaining wall.
Windcrest bought it as-is, contents and all. The photos below show the house as we found it, and how it finished: an opened living area, a reworked kitchen with doors out to the yard, two rebuilt bathrooms, a finished basement, and a cleared backyard.
A house doesn't have to be falling down for a sale to be difficult. If yours needs more than you have the time or money to put into it, that's reason enough to call.
Front Exterior
No photo of the front from before — this is how it finished.
An Arvada ranch, bought with everything still in it
A mid-century brick ranch a few minutes from Olde Town, lived in by the same family for decades. Dated oak kitchen, original bathroom, a basement on bare stained concrete. Nothing dangerous, nothing dramatic — just a house that had never been updated and a family with no appetite for doing it.
Windcrest bought it as-is. No repairs, no cleanout, no staging, and no conditions attached to the sale. The photos below show the house as we found it, and as it stands now: an opened kitchen, a rebuilt bathroom, a finished basement.
This is the most common kind of house we buy — not a disaster, just one nobody wants to spend a year fixing.
Kitchen
A Northglenn split-level, original down to the floor tile
One of the original planned-community houses, lived in by the same family for a very long time and never updated. Dark panelled rooms, a yellow kitchen on patterned vinyl, a teal-tiled bathroom, and every surface carrying decades of use. The yard had gone to seed around it.
Windcrest bought it as-is, with everything still inside. The photos below show it as we found it and as it stands now: an opened main floor, a rebuilt kitchen and bath, refinished floors throughout.
If your house in Northglenn still looks the way it did in 1975, that is not a problem. Most of the ones we buy do.
Front Exterior
A Broomfield ranch, full from the basement joists up
Every room packed. A basement stacked to the floor joists with decades of boxes, and an unfinished storage area you could barely walk through. The kind of house where a traditional sale can't even start, because step one is emptying it and nobody in the family had a month to spare.
Windcrest bought it as-is, with everything still inside. Nothing was cleaned out, repaired or staged before the purchase.
Basement
A Thornton two-story that just needed updating
Not every house we buy is a disaster. This one was tidy and empty — it simply hadn't been touched in a long time. Oak cabinets and black appliances in the kitchen, a brass chandelier over the dining area, cultured-marble vanities, and tile that dated the whole house the moment you walked in.
Windcrest bought it as-is. The photos below show it as we found it and as it stands now, inside and out.
If your house is perfectly fine and just dated, that counts too. You don't have to be in a bad situation to want a straightforward sale.
Front Exterior
A Wheat Ridge ranch, house and garage both full
A single-story ranch on a big Wheat Ridge lot, lived in hard and filled to the walls. Dark brown kitchen cabinets, a dated bath, rooms stacked with boxes, and a detached garage packed end to end with a lifetime of tools, lumber and parts bins. Outside, the yard was bare dirt and dead leaves and the patio was a parking lot for mowers and half-finished projects.
Windcrest bought it as-is, with every bit of it still there. Nothing cleared, nothing fixed, nothing asked of the seller.
A full garage is not a problem. It is one of the most common reasons a house like this never makes it onto the market.
Front Exterior
A Westminster ranch with its original beams kept
A mid-century Westminster ranch with a beamed, plank kitchen ceiling and bleached oak cabinets that had not changed in decades. Downstairs was wood panelling and drop ceiling throughout. Out back, a hand-built screened gazebo with a corrugated roof had given up, with a swamp cooler rusting beside it and the lawn gone to dirt.
Windcrest bought it as-is. The photos below show it as we found it and as it stands now — the original ceiling beams kept and blackened, the cabinets reworked rather than ripped out, the lower level opened up.
The good bones stayed. That beamed ceiling is the same one in both photos.
Kitchen
A Littleton ranch that had stopped being lived in
A long, low brick ranch in 80123 — the part of Littleton that is actually unincorporated Jefferson County. Carpet pulled up to bare subfloor in the bedrooms, wood panelling and little curtained hopper windows downstairs, and a back yard buried under a winter's worth of leaves.
Windcrest bought it as-is, with no repairs asked of the seller and no conditions attached to the sale. The photos below show it as we found it and as it stands now.
Houses reach this point gradually. Nobody decides to stop maintaining a home — it just gets away from you, and then it feels too far gone to list.
Front Exterior
