Athens-Clarke County cash home buyer
We buy houses in Athens, GA, in the shape they are in today.
Need to sell your house fast in Athens? We make a written cash offer on it as it sits. You skip the repairs and the showings, and you pick a closing date anywhere from about a week out to six months.
- 01Buying in Athens since 2015More than 700 houses bought, from satisfied sellers, for over a decade.
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- 03No fees or commissionsWe can often pay your closing costs and the attorney fees too.
Get your Athens cash offer
Send the address and a little about the house. We call you back to go over it.
Where we buy in Athens
Selling a house fast in Athens depends on the part of town it is in.
We buy in every neighborhood in Athens-Clarke County. Here is what tends to hold each kind of house back on the open market.
Five Points and Milledge Avenue
Older houses on streets people want to live on. The address helps, but a buyer with a bank loan still gets an inspection, and it will list the original wiring and the damp crawlspace.
Normaltown, Boulevard and Cobbham
Cottages and intown homes, many with rooms added on over the years. Those add-ons are where inspectors find problems, and they can stall a sale for weeks.
Eastside
Off Barnett Shoals Road and College Station Road you get subdivisions, long-time family homes and a lot of rentals. We buy all of them, with or without tenants.
Westside and Atlanta Highway
Ages and lot sizes vary a lot out here. One house needs paint and carpet. The one next door needs a roof and an HVAC system.
Downtown and UGA
Student rentals close to campus and Sanford Stadium. With these, the lease and the deposits count as much as the shape of each bedroom.
Lexington Road
Ranch houses and rentals on the east side of town. Even one that has sat empty for a year gets an offer from us.
Rentals near campus
You can sell a rental near UGA with the tenants still living there.
A lot of Athens rentals run on the school year. If you do not want to sign another lease or repaint between tenants one more time, you can sell before the next cycle starts.
We buy houses with tenants in them and we respect the lease. Tell us when it ends, what the rent is and who holds the deposit, and we set the closing around that. A house sitting empty between leases is fine too.
How a sale works in Athens
Four steps from your first call to the closing attorney.
If the house is part of an estate, the court side runs through the Athens-Clarke County Probate Court, and we work around its timing.
- Send us the address.
Call (706) 705-7703 or use the form at the top of this page. Tell us who lives there and what you already know is wrong with the house.
- A specialist calls you back.
We go over the details, and for most houses we set up one short visit.
- You get a written cash offer.
We base it on the repairs, the age of the roof and major systems, and what similar Athens houses within about a mile have sold for. You can say no.
- Close on the date you pick.
The title gets checked and the closing attorney prepares the papers. With a clear title that can happen in about seven days.
Athens questions
What Athens sellers ask us before they call.
Will you buy a student rental near UGA with tenants in it?
Yes. Send us the lease end date, the monthly rent and the deposit amount. The tenants keep their lease, and we plan the closing around it so nobody gets surprised.
My parent's Athens house is in probate. Can we still sell it?
Yes, once someone has the legal authority to sell. If your parent lived in Athens, the estate goes through the Athens-Clarke County Probate Court, which gives the executor or administrator that authority. We can make the offer while you wait and then work with the estate's attorney on the closing.
Does the neighborhood change your offer?
Yes, because we compare your house with sales within about a mile of it. We buy everywhere in Athens-Clarke County, including Five Points, the Eastside and the houses out Atlanta Highway.
I live out of state. Do I need to come to Athens to sell?
Usually not. We can work from photos and a local walk-through, so you do not have to fly in to get an offer. When we set the closing date, ask the attorney about signing from where you live.
Is a cash offer always better than listing my Athens house?
No. If the house is updated and you have time, listing it may get you more, and we will tell you that. We can also show you a listing proposal or our Equity Protection Program. A cash sale makes the most sense when the house needs work, has tenants, or has to be sold by a certain date.
Towns around Athens
We also buy in Watkinsville, Bogart, Winder, Jefferson and the rest of the area.
Each county has its own probate court and its own courthouse for foreclosure sales, so it helps to know which one your house falls in.
Watkinsville and Oconee County
Watkinsville is the county seat, with the courthouse and the Oconee County Probate Court. Out toward Bishop and North High Shoals, a lot of houses sit on acreage with a well, a septic tank and a barn or two. We buy land, mobile homes and houses with outbuildings.
Bogart
Bogart sits right on the line, so part of town is in Oconee County and part is in Athens-Clarke County. Your side decides which probate court handles an estate. Older houses near the railroad tracks and newer homes out toward Highway 316 both get the same written offer.
Winder and Barrow County
Older in-town homes with original bathrooms and wiring, rentals between tenants, and vacant houses still costing someone taxes and insurance. Estates go through the Barrow County Probate Court.
Jefferson and Jackson County
Jefferson is the Jackson County seat, northwest of Athens up Highway 129. Estates there go through the Jackson County Probate Court. We also buy in Commerce and Braselton.
Winterville and the rest of Clarke County
Winterville is a small town east of Athens, inside Clarke County. A house there, or anywhere else in the county, goes through the same Athens-Clarke County courts as a house in town.
Elsewhere in Georgia
Selling a house somewhere else in the state?
We buy in every part of Georgia. Start with our Georgia page or send the address with the form at the top of this page.
Other reasons people sell
Athens, GA
Find out what your Athens house is worth to us as it sits.
One call gets you a written cash offer. You decide if and when to close.