We Buy Houses in Pompano Beach, As They Sit

Pompano Beach, established in 1908, is the second oldest city in Broward County. The City was incorporated in 1947 and covers about 25 square miles midway between Miami and Palm Beach, with three miles of Atlantic shoreline. Its houses show their age: the median home here was built in 1974, and about two of every three went up before 1980. So a house from Cresthaven, Garden Isles or Old Pompano usually comes to us with half a century of wear on it, and we price that in rather than asking you to fix it.

Just over half of the city's 47,167 occupied homes (55.5%) are lived in by their owners, the typical owner arrived in 2012, and more than four of every ten owner households are headed by someone 65 or older. So the house often reaches us through an estate in probate at the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit in Fort Lauderdale, and we work alongside the estate's attorney and pay that attorney at closing. The other 44.5% are rented, so the seller may also be a landlord with a tenant in place, or an owner whose move cannot wait or whose payments slipped.

Before closing, the title company orders the City's lien search from the Building Division: $110 per folio, five to seven business days, not counting Fridays and holidays. It reports code-enforcement, nuisance-abatement and unsafe-structure liens or fines, open permits and special assessments; permit history is in the City's Click2Gov portal. Code cases that are not corrected go before a Special Magistrate, whose fines can be recorded as liens, and once the property is in compliance the owner can file a $150 application for relief. We order the search, read it before the offer, and any balance shows as a line before you sign.