We Buy Houses in Plantation, As They Sit

Plantation is geographically centered in Broward County. It began as Frederick Peters' 10,000 acres along State Road 7 and incorporated on April 30, 1953, with fewer than 500 residents. It grew west to Flamingo Road, about seven miles from State Road 7, and annexed Plantation Acres, the horse community west of Hiatus Road, in 1973. The median Plantation home was built in 1984 and four in ten predate 1980, so a house in the Historic District or among the older, large-lot homes east of Holly Lane usually comes to us with decades of wear, and we buy it as it sits.

Owners live in 64% of Plantation's occupied homes, the typical owner has been in the house since 2011, and nearly one in three owner households is headed by someone 65 or older. So the house often reaches us through an estate in probate at the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, a move that cannot wait, or payments that slipped. The Plantation case on this page was an inheritance: four heirs in three states, probate done in about 60 days. We work alongside the estate's attorney and pay that attorney at closing.

The title company orders the City's lien search from Financial Services: $52.50 per folio number in five to seven business days, or $125 expedited in two, covering only liens the City placed, from code enforcement and lot mowing to unpaid water and sewer bills. Permit history is in the City's Accela Citizen Access portal. Code cases go before the Code Enforcement Board or a Special Magistrate, whose recorded fine orders become liens on the land; a request to reduce the fine costs $500 and is considered only once the property complies. We order and read all of it before the offer, and any balance shows as a line before you sign.