We Buy Houses in Sunrise, As They Sit

Sunrise began as Sunrise Golf Village: developer Norman Johnson bought 2,650 acres on what was then the remote western edge of Broward County, and the City was incorporated on June 22, 1961. Annexation took it from 1.75 square miles in 1967 to more than 18, out to the Everglades. The median home dates from 1983 and more than four in ten predate 1980, so a house from Welleby or Springtree usually reaches us needing what a forty-year-old house needs.

Nearly seven in ten households own their home, the typical owner arrived in 2011, and nearly four in ten owner households are headed by someone 65 or older. So the house often comes with a change of life: a downsizing, or a parent's home in probate at the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, in which case we work alongside the estate's attorney and pay that attorney at closing. The Sunrise case on this page was a longtime owner ready to downsize: the house needed a little work, and our Equity Protection Program helped him get the most out of it.

Before closing, the title company orders the City Clerk's lien search: $100 per address, account or folio, answered in three to five business days and valid for up to 30 days. It shows special assessments, what is owed to close the utility account, and code enforcement citations and liens. Open permits are a separate request to the Building Division, whose records are mostly on microfilm. Code cases go before a Special Magistrate every month; a recorded fine becomes a lien on the land, and the magistrate may reduce the fine once the violation is corrected. We order and read all of it before the offer, and any balance shows as a line before you sign.