PropSolvers,
Jefferson · Madison · Marshall counties, Alabama
Foreclosure, probate, downsizing, a move, or a house that needs more than you want to put into it. Twenty-eight ZIP codes across Jefferson, Madison and Marshall counties.
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We buy houses that need work.
Jefferson, Madison and Marshall counties, Alabama. Foreclosure, probate, downsizing, a move, or a house that needs more than you want to put into it.
Give us a tryWhere we actually buy
Every ZIP below is somewhere we have decided to work, for reasons we can explain. The numbers are real investor transaction counts and median values from our own market research, not estimates written for a website.
Jefferson County
Birmingham · Primary market
Plus Homewood, South Birmingham, Pinson, Crestwood, Trussville and South Hoover.
Madison County
Huntsville · Growth market
Plus the Limestone corridor, Harvest, Owens Cross Roads, Research Park and New Market.
Marshall County
Albertville · Lake & commuter market
Plus Boaz outskirts and the Cullman, Jackson and DeKalb border ZIPs.
Figures are monthly investor transaction counts, median single-family value and average days on market, drawn from our own county market research and refreshed as it is updated. If your ZIP is not on this list, we will tell you plainly rather than waste your time.
What a cash offer actually is
That is the whole trade, and any buyer who dances around it is managing you. We buy below retail because we take on everything that makes retail slow: the repairs, the financing that falls through, the months of showings, the fees at closing.
People take that trade when the certainty is worth more to them than the difference. A house that needs $40,000 of work you don't have. An estate three siblings need settled. An auction date that is not moving. In those situations, a slightly lower number that closes on a date you choose is the better outcome, and everyone involved knows it.
If your house is in good condition, you are not under time pressure, and you can handle a few months of showings — list it with an agent. You will net more money than we can responsibly offer, and we will say so on the phone.
We would rather lose the call than talk someone into the wrong decision. We are going to be working these same neighborhoods for a long time.
Situations we know well
Alabama foreclosures move on a published schedule — three weeks of newspaper notice before the sale. That window is short, but it is longer than most people think, and there is usually more than one way out. Selling is only one of them.
The hardest question in probate is rarely what the house is worth. It is who is actually allowed to sell it. Heirs, executors, a spouse who was never on the deed — the signing chain has to be right before anything else matters.
Also, most weeks
Whatever the reason, the trade is the one described above, and so is our honesty about when it is not the right call for you.
Who you would be dealing with
PropSolvers is small on purpose. When you call, you reach our acquisitions team, not a call center reading from a script and passing your address to whoever pays the most for it. The person you talk to can tell you, usually the same day, whether we are the right buyer for your house.
Every offer we make is reviewed and signed off by Shani Smith, who founded PropSolvers and still walks the houses. A small team means we can say no quickly, which is worth more to you than a slow maybe.