We Buy Houses in Peach County

Fort Valley rentals and code enforcement

The 2022 joint comprehensive plan for Peach County, Byron, and Fort Valley names consistent code enforcement as the greatest need residents raised, and its work program calls for code staff to make owners clean up overgrown and run-down properties and for unsafe, dilapidated structures to be demolished through the code process. The plan puts particular weight on landlords' duty to keep leased houses habitable, and Fort Valley has sought state rehabilitation funding for homes in the city.

Fort Valley is home to a state university, and the plan notes that much of southern Peach County is university land. If your rental near campus has a tenant, a student lease, or a turnover coming, we can buy it occupied and take over the lease.

Which office you deal with depends on the address. Inside Fort Valley, code complaints go to the city's code enforcement officer and city water and wastewater come from the Fort Valley Utility Commission. Byron issues its own building and manufactured home permits. In the unincorporated county, the Chief County Marshal's Office handles zoning, permits, and code violation reports.

Orchard, pecan, and farm land

Some Peach County farms have grown peaches and pecans for more than a century, according to the comprehensive plan, and the county's agriculture and forestry land includes pasture, specialty farms, and commercial timber. The work program commits to strict zoning enforcement and to keeping rezoning requests in agricultural areas to a minimum, so a buyer counting on subdividing farm land should not assume it will be approved.

Utilities matter on rural parcels too. Stakeholders told the planners that some unincorporated homes still have no public water or sewer, so a farmhouse is often on its own well and septic tank. If the land is enrolled in conservation use, the Georgia Department of Revenue requires it to stay in farm or timber use for the ten-year covenant, and breaking that covenant means repaying double the tax savings. We need the covenant details before we can price acreage.

Peach County property we buy

• Older single-family houses in Fort Valley needing repairs
• Rentals near the university, occupied or between tenants
• Houses with a city or county code violation or demolition notice
• Houses in and around Byron, including ones on septic
• Farm, orchard, and pasture land, with or without a house
• Inherited houses owned by several family members
• Property headed for the county tax sale

Records, courts and closing in Peach County

Fort Valley is the county seat. The Peach County Clerk of Superior Court records deeds, security deeds, and liens, and the Probate Court at the courthouse, 205 West Church Street, handles wills and estates. Peach is part of the Macon Judicial Circuit along with Bibb and Crawford. The Board of Tax Assessors at 902 Campus Drive sets values; the Tax Commissioner collects county taxes and holds tax sales at the courthouse, while city taxes are billed separately. A licensed Georgia attorney closes the sale.

When you ask us for an offer, the details that move our price or closing date in Peach County are which city or county office has jurisdiction, any open code or demolition case, current leases and deposits on a rental, whether a farm parcel is in a conservation use covenant, and whether the property is on a tax sale list. Back taxes are paid from the proceeds at closing.

Frequently asked questions