We Buy Houses Decatur

7 to 60 days, we close on your schedule. If you need the money quickly we can close in about a week; if family needs time to sort belongings or move out, we pick a later date together. A licensed title company or closing attorney handles the closing.

Maybe not. Thousands of homes with a Decatur mailing address sit in unincorporated DeKalb County. Most homes inside city limits are in ZIP code 30030; addresses in 30032, 30033, 30034 and 30035 are usually unincorporated DeKalb. It matters for taxes and code rules, not for us: we buy in both, and the title company confirms the details before closing.

Not always. It depends on how the deed was written. One Decatur seller assumed he faced a long probate, but the deed showed he and his grandmother owned the house as joint tenants, so it passed straight to him. When probate is needed, it is handled where the owner lived; for a Decatur homeowner that is the DeKalb County Probate Court, right in Decatur. We check the deed with you before anyone hires a lawyer. More on selling an inherited house.

Yes. We buy houses with family members still living in them and set a move-out date that gives them time. In that same Decatur sale, the seller's cousin was still living in the home; we gave him time to move and bought the house as-is.

You can still sell; past-due taxes are paid from the sale at closing. Inside city limits you get two tax bills: the City of Decatur bills its own property taxes (due June 1 and December 20, with a penalty plus interest when late), and DeKalb County bills the county share. Outside city limits it is DeKalb only. Either way, the closing attorney orders the payoffs so you do not have to clear them first.

In Georgia the lender must mail notice at least 30 days before the sale and advertise it once a week for four weeks. DeKalb foreclosure sales happen on the first Tuesday of the month at the courthouse in downtown Decatur, and once the house is sold there is no right to buy it back. Call us when the notice arrives, not the week of the sale. More on facing foreclosure.

No repairs are required to sell to us. Code complaints are the risk while the house sits: inside the city, Decatur's code enforcement officer enforces the International Property Maintenance Code; in unincorporated DeKalb, Code Compliance requires vacant houses to be boarded, secured and kept up, with grass under 12 inches. We buy older brick ranches with original kitchens and old wiring as they are.

All of them: the City of Decatur and the 30030, 30032, 30033, 30034 and 30035 ZIP codes, including Belvedere Park, Candler-McAfee, Panthersville and the Columbia Drive and Glenwood Road areas. Call (404) 531-1671 or enter your Decatur address above.