We Buy Houses in Gwinnett County

Thirty years of subdivisions, aging together

Gwinnett's growth ran hardest from the mid-1980s through the 2000s, and most of its single-family housing dates from that span. Because the houses were built to similar specifications at similar times, they age the same way: roofs replaced once and due again, original HVAC, water heaters past their life, and basements or crawlspaces that have been taking water for years.

The older cores are different. Lawrenceville, Duluth, Norcross, and Buford have town centers with pre-war and mid-century housing, smaller lots, and a separate set of problems — knob-and-tube remnants, galvanized plumbing, and settled foundations.

Basements, crawlspaces, and red clay

Unlike Florida or the Texas Gulf Coast, Gwinnett houses commonly have basements or crawlspaces, and north Georgia's red clay holds water. The result is a recurring inspection story: efflorescence and seepage on basement walls, a damp crawlspace with rot in the joists, poor grading and downspouts dumping against the foundation, and mould behind finished basement walls.

Those items scare financed buyers and their insurers more than the repair cost suggests. They do not stop us — but they are the reason a lot of Gwinnett houses become cash sales.

A large single-family rental market

Gwinnett has one of the larger concentrations of single-family rentals in metro Atlanta, much of it bought by small landlords and institutional buyers after 2008. Many of those owners are now facing the same arithmetic: assessments up with values, insurance premiums up, and a make-ready that costs real money before any rent arrives.

You can sell occupied. The lease and security deposit transfer at closing, so there is no eviction, no vacancy, and no turnover spend.

Gwinnett County property we buy

• 1980s through early-2000s subdivision homes with original roofs and systems
• Houses with basement seepage, crawlspace rot, or drainage problems
• Unpermitted finished basements and additions
• Single-family rentals, occupied or vacant, paying or in arrears
• Older houses in the Lawrenceville, Duluth, Norcross, and Buford town centers
• Homes with unpaid HOA assessments or association liens
• Inherited houses owned by heirs living out of state

Records and closing in Gwinnett

Lawrenceville is the county seat. Deeds, security deeds, and liens are recorded with the Gwinnett County Clerk of Superior Court and searchable through the statewide index; estates run through the Gwinnett County Probate Court. The board of assessors sets fair market value and the tax commissioner bills at 40 percent of it.

A licensed Georgia attorney closes the sale. With HOAs common here, the association's statement of account is frequently the pacing item, so request it early.

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