OP, there are several “flipper teams” in the county who will rehab your home and market it for a portion or percentage of your equity upon sale. Here is the link to one:
Perhaps you can call one of them for an appt and see if your house will qualify for their program.
A couple of homeowners around me with homes in disrepair did this and they eventually sold their homes for way more than they could get, otherwise. Both were senior citizens who could no longer work on their own homes.
Of course, I don’t know, but maybe you could recover more equity by doing something like this versus doing next to nothing and dumping it. $70K really isn’t a lot of (paper) “equity” when you have to factor in termite clearance work, costs of sale and RE commissions.
Best of all, you wouldn’t have to lift a finger! After you sign on with them and move out by an agreed-upon date, they will take over with a flipper team and gut it or whatever has to be done to get top dollar in your neighborhood.
