Most People Are In Two Of These At Once
The eight pages above are written as if situations arrive one at a time. In practice they rarely do. An inherited house is usually also a vacant house, and often has delinquent taxes on it because nobody has been paying them since the funeral. A divorce frequently arrives alongside a relocation. A landlord who has had enough is often looking at a house that needs repairs precisely because the last tenant left it that way.
When several apply, work from whichever one has a deadline attached to it. That is the one that decides your options, and the others are things to mention rather than things to solve first. A posted foreclosure sale date, a court deadline in a decree, a report date on military orders, or a tax suit that has already been filed all set a hard limit on what is possible. Everything else — condition, occupancy, how full the garage is — can be dealt with at any point, because none of it has to be fixed before a cash sale.
Two things are worth saying plainly across all eight. First, several of these situations have better answers than selling, and the pages say so where that is true: a servicer conversation and free HUD-approved counseling before a foreclosure sale, a tax deferral for homeowners over 65, a refinance with an owelty lien to keep a house in the family after a divorce. We would rather point you at those than win a sale you should not have made.
Second, none of these situations require you to get the house ready. Not cleaned, not emptied, not repaired, not vacated. If the reason you have not called anyone is the state the house is in, that is the one obstacle that genuinely does not exist here.