Piedmont Triad cash home buyers
We buy houses in Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point, NC, in whatever shape they are in.
Ready to sell your house fast in Greensboro? We write up a cash offer for the house as it stands today, with no repairs or showings first. We buy the same way in Winston-Salem, High Point and the smaller towns across the Triad, and you pick the closing date. That can be about seven days away when the title is clear, or up to six months out.
- 01Run by the Stiles family since 2015Parker and Casey Stiles have bought more than 700 houses, and they buy with the company's own cash.
- 024.8+ rating on GoogleThe Better Business Bureau gives us an A+, and we are accredited with them.
- 03No fixing, no cleanout, no commissionOften we can pick up the closing costs and the attorney's bill too.
Get your Triad cash offer
Type in the address and a note about the house. One of our specialists will phone you about it.
Where we buy in the Triad
From the Cone mill villages to Ardmore, here is what we run into around the Triad.
We buy all over Guilford and Forsyth counties, and we have bought houses in Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point. Every part of the area has different houses and different reasons a sale stalls.
Fisher Park, College Hill and Dunleath
These are Greensboro's three local historic districts, and most of the houses in College Hill and Fisher Park went up between the 1890s and the 1930s. Dunleath runs along Summit Avenue just northeast of downtown. Exterior work such as new windows needs the city's sign-off, called a certificate of appropriateness, which slows down a buyer who planned a quick renovation. All three are in Guilford County.
The old Cone mill villages
The Cone brothers bought land on the northeast side of Greensboro, opened Proximity Mill in 1895 and built White Oak Mill between 1902 and 1905, with village houses for their workers close by. The company sold those houses off in the late 1940s. Houses this old have usually been patched and added onto by several owners, and we buy them with the wiring, floors and add-ons as they are.
Ardmore and the West End
The West End in Winston-Salem was laid out as a streetcar suburb, with houses from the late 1880s to 1930. Ardmore, the city's largest neighborhood, grew out of subdivisions platted between 1910 and 1924, and its streets run to Queen Anne houses and Craftsman bungalows. An inspector will head straight for the old plumbing, the crawlspace and any porch someone closed in. Both are in Forsyth County.
Washington Park and Waughtown Street
Washington Park was built around a streetcar line, and its houses date from about 1892 to 1940. In the Centerville area off Waughtown Street you find bungalows and plain Minimal Traditional houses from the first half of the 1900s. We buy these as rentals, as family homes left empty, or with a roof that has given out. This is Forsyth County too.
Johnson Street and Emerywood
High Point's Uptown Suburbs historic district takes in Johnson Place, Emerywood and the blocks around them, with homes built from 1903 to 1963. The styles run from Colonial Revival and Tudor Revival to Craftsman bungalows. A big older house that has sat for a while can need a roof, a furnace and new wiring all at once. This part of High Point is in Guilford County.
Highland Mills and the county edges
The Highland Cotton Mills village off South Elm Street is a neighborhood of mill houses dating to 1913. Most of High Point is in Guilford County, though the city also reaches into Davidson, Randolph and Forsyth counties, and it is the only city in North Carolina that does. The county line decides which clerk handles an estate there.
Estates across county lines
Before you sell a parent's Triad house, find out which county has the estate.
Every North Carolina county has a clerk of superior court, and that office handles estates and issues letters testamentary or letters of administration. An estate is filed in the county where the owner made their home. For a Greensboro owner that means Guilford County, and for a Winston-Salem owner it means Forsyth.
High Point is where families get tripped up. The city spreads into four counties. Most of it sits in Guilford, while some streets fall in Davidson, Randolph or Forsyth, so a High Point mailing address does not tell you which clerk to see. The county property tax bill does.
The same thing happens around the edges of other towns here. Kernersville is mostly in Forsyth County, with outskirts in Guilford. Thomasville is in Davidson County, with portions in Randolph. Burlington is mostly in Alamance County, and its western edge crosses into Guilford.
After the clerk appoints a personal representative, creditors get at least three months to come forward, counted from the first of four weekly notices. Heirs who sell within two years of the death usually need the personal representative's signature on the sale too.
You can have our written offer while all of that is still moving, and we will hold the closing until the estate is able to sell.
How a sale works in the Triad
From your phone call to a signed deed, here is the order of things.
If the owner has died, the estate sits with the superior court clerk of whatever county the owner lived in. For Greensboro and most of High Point that means Guilford County, and for Winston-Salem and Clemmons it means Forsyth. The Davidson County clerk in Lexington and the Randolph County clerk in Asheboro handle estates from their parts of High Point and Thomasville.
- Reach out with the address.
Phone (704) 966-7355, or fill out the form near the top of the page. Say whether family, tenants or nobody lives there now, and what you already know needs fixing.
- We talk it over, then see the house.
A specialist calls to go through the details with you, and most houses get one visit after that. If you live out of town, photos can often take the place of the visit.
- Look over a written offer.
The number comes from the repair list, the age of big items like the roof and furnace, and recent sales of similar houses nearby. If the number does not work for you, you walk away owing nothing.
- Choose when to close.
Your title gets searched by the attorney, who also pays off any loan or lien out of the sale money. With a clear title that can be about a week away, and we can also wait as long as six months.
Triad questions
What Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point owners ask us.
My dad lived in the Davidson County part of High Point. Where does his estate get opened?
With the Davidson County clerk of superior court in Lexington, because a North Carolina estate goes to the county where the owner lived. Most High Point addresses are in Guilford County, so check his property tax bill or ask the estate attorney before anyone files. We can still look at the house and make an offer in the meantime.
Can you buy a Fisher Park, College Hill or Dunleath house that needs work on the outside?
Yes. In Greensboro's local historic districts, jobs like replacing windows need a certificate of appropriateness before they start, and bigger projects go before the city's Historic Preservation Commission. Those approvals become our problem once we own the house, and you leave the old windows and worn trim right where they are.
I own a rental near UNCG, A&T or Wake Forest. Do the tenants have to move out before you buy?
They can stay. We buy with the lease and the tenants in place. The deposits either get transferred to us, with a written notice to each tenant, or get refunded. Give us the date the lease ends and the monthly rent so we can line up the closing.
I am behind on payments on my Winston-Salem house. Can I still sell before the foreclosure?
Often, yes. Most Forsyth County foreclosures include a hearing in front of the clerk of superior court, followed by a sale at the courthouse. If we close before that sale, the loan is paid off from the proceeds and the foreclosure ends. Our closing has to land before the sale date, so call when the first letter arrives.
Do you buy old mill houses in Greensboro, High Point or Lexington?
Yes. We buy in the old Cone villages in northeast Greensboro, the Highland Mills village in High Point and Lexington's Erlanger village. Most of these houses date to the early 1900s, and a house that age has usually been added onto or patched along the way. Our offer accounts for all of it, so you do not have to fix anything first.
Towns around the Triad
We also buy in Kernersville, Clemmons, Jamestown, Thomasville and the towns around them.
Several towns here straddle a county line, and an estate goes to the clerk of superior court in whichever county the owner called home. We have bought houses in Jonesville, and we buy in every other town below.
Kernersville and Clemmons
Kernersville sits between Winston-Salem and Greensboro along I-40. Most of it is in Forsyth County, with outskirts in Guilford, and Korner's Folly, the 22-room house finished in 1880, still stands in town. Clemmons is a village in southwestern Forsyth County on the east side of the Yadkin River.
Jamestown
Jamestown is a Guilford County town between Greensboro and High Point, with High Point right on its western side. Mendenhall Plantation, built in 1811, and the Oakdale Cotton Mill Village are both on the National Register of Historic Places. Estates here go through the Guilford County clerk of superior court.
Thomasville and Lexington
Thomasville is in Davidson County, with portions in Randolph, and its 30-foot concrete chair has stood in the middle of town since 1951. Lexington is the Davidson County seat, so estates from most of Thomasville and from the Davidson side of High Point go to the clerk there. Lexington's Erlanger mill village has bungalows built for mill workers between about 1916 and 1929.
Burlington
Burlington grew up around the North Carolina Railroad's shops and was first called Company Shops, and textile mills carried its economy into the 1970s. Most of the city is in Alamance County, whose seat is Graham, and its western edge crosses into Guilford.
Asheboro
Asheboro is the Randolph County seat, south of Greensboro on US 220 and I-73/I-74, and home to the North Carolina Zoo, which opened in 1974. The Randolph County clerk of superior court in Asheboro also handles estates from the Randolph parts of High Point and Thomasville.
Jonesville
Jonesville is the oldest town in Yadkin County, across the Yadkin River from Elkin, with I-77 running along the east side of town. We have bought houses here. Estates go through the Yadkin County clerk of superior court, and Yadkinville is the county seat.
Elsewhere in North Carolina
We buy well beyond Guilford and Forsyth counties.
That includes the areas around Charlotte, Raleigh and Durham and Fayetteville. For anywhere else, our North Carolina page is the place to start, or you can type the address into our offer form.
Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point
Get a written number on your Triad house, repairs and all.
Pick up the phone or send a text about the house. If our offer works, the closing date is yours.