Sell Your Melissa, TX House As-Is

Melissa's county offices in one place

Melissa is a Collin County city of about 26,194 residents in 2024, according to the Census Bureau, all of them in Collin County. That means every Melissa seller works with the same county offices.

Start with the Collin Central Appraisal District on Eldorado Parkway in McKinney. It decides the taxable value of the house and keeps the exemption record. A protest is filed with the Collin Appraisal Review Board, a separate panel from the district, and that board hears it. The district's tax rates and exemptions table shows the Collin County Tax Office collecting for both Melissa City and Melissa ISD. The county tax assessor-collector sends bills in October and expects payment by January 31 to avoid penalties; if an older year is unpaid, ask for a payoff figure. When the house sells, the new deed is recorded by the Collin County Clerk on Bloomdale Road.

Melissa utility hours and shutoff rules

Melissa's Utility Billing department manages water, sewer and solid waste services and handles starting, stopping and transferring service. Two details on its page shape a move-out schedule:

• Short Fridays. The office at 3411 Barker Avenue is open 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday, but only until 11:30 a.m. on Friday. Call 972-838-2035 or email ub@cityofmelissa.com early in the week if you want a stop date confirmed.
• No weekend reconnections. If service is cut for nonpayment, a payment made before 5:30 p.m. gets water back the same day; after that, it is the next business day. Reconnections are not available after hours, on weekends or on holidays.

That second rule is the one to watch with a vacant house. If the bills go to an empty mailbox and the water is shut off on a Friday, the buyer's inspection or walk-through may have to wait until Monday. Keep the account current until closing, and have the final bill sent to an address you check.

Free monthly bulk pickup with CWD

Melissa and Community Waste Disposal (CWD) give residential solid waste customers a free monthly bulk pickup with no call needed. Your bulk day is a Friday set by your trash day: Monday and Tuesday routes get the first Friday, Wednesday the second, Thursday the third and Friday the fourth. Items go to the curb by 7 a.m.

The limit is four cubic yards per collection, and the city gives a handy yardstick: one cubic yard is about one washing machine. Brush must be bundled, no bigger than four by two feet and no heavier than 40 pounds a bundle. Refrigerators and freezers need a tag certifying the refrigerant was removed. Single items over 150 pounds, commercial remodeling or construction debris, tires, batteries, propane tanks and household hazardous waste are not taken. For a bigger load, CWD quotes a price at 972-392-9300, option 2. If the house holds more than a few months of bulk days, get that quote before you set a closing date. Our guide to selling a vacant house covers what else to line up.

Code compliance in Melissa

The city's Code Compliance department, also at 3411 Barker Avenue, monitors compliance with the city's ordinances. Its stated goal is voluntary compliance, reached through outreach and education, and residents can email code@cityofmelissa.com or call to reach the Code Compliance Officer. If you get a notice on a house you are about to sell, contact the officer early and ask what it would take to close the case. A Texas real estate attorney can tell you how an open case affects the sale.

Selling a Melissa rental with a tenant

If you are selling a Melissa house you have been renting out and the tenant will not leave, the case goes to a justice of the peace. Collin County's civil suits page says each eviction must be filed in the precinct where the property is located, and its justice of the peace page has a map to find yours.

Free legal help is available to people who qualify. Legal Aid of NorthWest Texas runs a Home Preservation Project eviction clinic for JP3 at 920 E. Park Blvd. in Plano, every Thursday from 8 a.m. to noon, with walk-ins accepted. Its McKinney office takes applications at 972-542-9405. For the landlord side, our post on the risks of a vacant rental explains what changes once the tenant is out.

Selling to Cash Home Advisors

You can sell the house as-is and skip the repairs. We pay all closing costs and can close in 7–14 days. Se habla español.

Find out how it works or request an offer on your Melissa house. To estimate what a sale leaves you, try our net proceeds calculator.

Local offices for this area

• Collin Central Appraisal District
• Collin County Clerk: Land Recordings
• Collin County Justices of the Peace
• City of Melissa Utility Billing
• City of Melissa Code Compliance
• Legal Aid of NorthWest Texas, McKinney office

ZIP codes we buy in: 75454