One. We Work on Burned Houses and Nothing Else
Not divorce sales, not foreclosures, not inherited property generally. Fire, in metro Atlanta, in any condition from smoke to bare foundation.
The reason is narrow and practical rather than sentimental. A fire file has an insurance claim attached with its own law, a structural question a contractor cannot answer, and inside the city limits a tree ordinance that governs whether the lot can be cleared at all. A buyer who sees one of these a year does not know any of that, and the way they handle not knowing is to discount for it. That discount comes out of the seller.
Two. Georgia Makes Our Homework Your Problem
In most states a seller hands over a statutory disclosure form and every buyer starts from the same account of the property. Georgia has no such form. Under caveat emptor the buyer investigates, which sounds like their problem and is actually yours.
Why Does Caveat Emptor Affect What I Get Offered?
The counter to that is establishing the two invisible variables yourself before you solicit anything: what the foundation is doing, and what the tree position is if clearance is in play. Both are knowable. Both remove a discount.
Three. Where Our Interests Diverge From Yours
We are the buyer. Not an adviser, not a partner, and not neutral. We benefit if you accept less, if you sell rather than restore, and if you decide quickly.
Everything on this site is written to be useful anyway, and we think most of it is. But the correct way to read it is to check the facts against the offices we name — the Office of Buildings, the Arborist Division, the Clerk of Superior Court, the county assessor — rather than taking our word for anything. We name them for that reason.
Four. What We Are Not, Specifically
Not brokers: we take no commission and we do not represent you. Not public adjusters: we take no part of your claim, which matters here because Georgia's bad faith statute makes a properly drafted written demand genuinely valuable and that is a lawyer's work rather than ours. Not arborists or expediters: we do not hold your arborist meeting or file your permits. Not contract assigners: the entity that signs takes title. Not lawyers, in a state where closings run through them.
Five. We Are Often Not the Right Buyer
Three situations where somebody else should be buying your property, and we will say so in writing.
An infill builder, on an intown lot with development potential. They price the land against what may be built rather than against a replacement of what burned. On the right parcel they should win and they will.
A rehabber, where the frame and foundation came through. Restoring older Atlanta housing is their business and they can pay closer to finished value than a buyer pricing a rebuild.
You, keeping it. The older stock here sits on crawlspace and pier foundations that survive a contained fire far better than slab construction does. Restoring and listing beats a cash offer more often in this market than in newer ones, and where the numbers say that, the email says that.
Why Would You Talk Me out of a Sale?
Reaching Us
Send an address through any form on this site. Before you deal with us, run the checks on our page about how to tell local cash buyers apart. They apply to us exactly as they apply to anyone else who has called you.