We work three regions, and the reason people sell is genuinely different in
each one. That matters, because the right move for a Fairborn seller is often
the wrong move for someone in Baltimore.
Dayton metro, Ohio — our home market
This is where we are based, and it is the only cluster where we can walk a
property the same week you call. It is dominated by
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base: PCS orders arrive with a hard
report date, and a report date is precisely what a financed buyer's lender
cannot promise. Fairborn borders the base
directly. Huber Heights is a different
problem entirely — a city largely built out between 1956 and the early
1990s, so roof, HVAC, kitchen and electrical panel across whole streets reach
the end of their service lives at the same time.
Beavercreek and
Dayton round out the cluster.
Hampton Roads and Richmond, Virginia
The military pattern repeats here at a far larger scale, around the naval
concentration in Norfolk and
Virginia Beach.
Newport News carries two distinct
problems at once: Fort Eustis sits inside the city, and the Hilton Village
historic district — 473 houses built for shipyard workers between 1918
and 1920 — requires a Certificate of Appropriateness before you can
change a window or even repaint an exterior.
Chesapeake and
Richmond complete the region.
Maryland and Washington DC
The hardest cluster, and the most legally distinctive.
Baltimore still runs a working
ground rent system, where you own the house but someone else
owns the land beneath it — and redeeming it through the state takes four
to six months, which no mortgage rate lock will survive. Maryland's lead law
also covers every rental built before 1978 and demands a passing dust
inspection at each change of tenancy, which is why so many small landlords
here decide to stop being landlords.
Silver Spring,
Rockville and
Washington DC are expensive, crowded
markets where a well-kept house should usually be listed, not sold to us.
Don't see your city?
Send it anyway. We buy in other markets listed above and will tell you
straight whether we can service your property or whether a local buyer or
agent is the better call. We would rather point you somewhere useful than tie
up your house.
Vacant and boarded upEmpty for months, secured at the windows.
Needs a full renovationFloors, walls and ceilings all at once.
Still full of belongingsYou do not have to clear it out.