The Person You're Actually Talking To. And About 700 Houses.

Who

Johnson Buys, run by Christopher Johnson

Since

2012

Bought

700+ properties

Where

Miami-Dade County, plus Broward and Palm Beach

What

Houses, duplexes through 17-unit buildings, warehouses, boarding houses

Also buy

Demolition orders, unsafe structure cases, and construction projects that stalled

Also

Dozens of renovations, from Little Haiti and Allapattah to Coral Gables and Pinecrest

How

Cash. No lender, no appraisal contingency, no commissions

Phone

(786) 869-4909

Fourteen years, and every kind of property

Most of what we buy is a single-family house somewhere in Miami-Dade. But the 700-odd properties behind that number also include duplexes and small multi-family up to eight units, apartment buildings in Little Haiti, warehouses in Little Havana, and old boarding houses in Overtown.

That range matters for one practical reason: very little surprises us. A property that another buyer would walk away from — because of what's in it, who's living in it, or what the county has on file against it — is usually something we've already done a version of.

What we actually do that other buyers don't

Anyone can say "we buy as-is." These are the specific things we've done to get deals closed, drawn from purchases you can read about in our guides:

• We buy at any stage of probate. Before letters of administration are issued or after — we look at where the estate actually is and work from there, rather than telling you to call back when it's finished.
• Our attorney runs the probate. On an estate with six heirs that took eight months, one heir died mid-process and triggered a second probate in Alabama. We ran it rather than watching the family lose the house.
• We advance costs when the clock is against you. Attorney's fees and delinquent property taxes, where paying them is what keeps a house from being lost before it can be sold.
• We come to the heirs. Notaries sent to wherever people actually live. We've closed with heirs in Alabama, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Italy.
• We close out open permits ourselves. On a West Little River house in 2023 we hired the engineer to certify old window work so the permits could be closed before we bought it.
• We take the property occupied. Tenants in place, an eviction part-heard, a holdover who won't leave — that becomes our problem at closing, not a condition you have to satisfy first.
• We take everything in it. Contents, junk cars, yard debris. We pay for the removal, and we've paid occupants to relocate rather than push that onto a family.

We do the renovations ourselves

Dozens of renovation projects, all over the county. Little Haiti, Allapattah, West Little River and Brownsville, and also Coconut Grove, Coral Gables and Pinecrest. Same trades, same building departments, very different budgets.

The ones other buyers pass on

Two categories put most cash buyers off entirely, and we look for them. The first is a building carrying a demolition order or an unsafe structure case. Those do not resolve by being ignored — fines run, and if the county ends up doing the demolition itself the cost of the work and the fines are charged back to the property. Somebody has to engage with the case, and that is work we take on rather than price around.

The second is a construction project that stopped. Permits lapse, unpaid trades file liens, and the lending keeps running on a building earning nothing. We take those over: deal with the debt on the project, get the permits live again, and build it out to the finish line with our own trades.

A gut renovation here means the whole building. Floor joists replaced. A new roof. Impact windows throughout. New central air, new plumbing, and new electrical run through the house. New stucco on the outside, finished flat. That is the standard on these projects, not the exception, and it is why we are not frightened of a house that needs everything.

That matters to you for one specific reason: it is why our number is a real number. When we price a roof, a slab, an electrical panel or an open permit, we are not guessing from a spreadsheet — we have paid for that work, argued about it with a contractor, and stood there while it was inspected. Which is why we do not put a figure in front of you and then quietly reduce it three weeks later, once an inspection tells us something we ought to have known at the start.

It is also the answer to a question sellers rarely ask out loud: what happens to the house afterwards. Some become rentals. Most are renovated properly and sold on — of six properties we bought from one investor, three went to first-time homebuyers.

What we're not

We are not the highest number you can get for your house. If your property is in reasonable condition, the title is clean, and you can wait sixty to ninety days for a retail buyer with a mortgage, an agent will almost certainly beat our offer and you should go that way. We'll tell you so.

What we're competitive on is everything that makes that route impossible: condition, occupancy, title problems, open permits, an estate that isn't settled, a foreclosure date that's already set. A certain closing on a date you choose is worth something real, and that's what we're selling.

How long it takes

Straightforward purchases close in about seven days once title is clear. Estates run longer — our probate closings have ranged from roughly 20 days to 18 months, set by the court and the family rather than by us. We'll give you the honest version of your timeline at the start rather than the brochure version.

Where we buy

Miami-Dade is home and where nearly all of our closings are — Little Haiti, Allapattah, West Little River, Miami Gardens, Liberty City, Buena Vista, Little Havana and beyond. We also buy in Broward and Palm Beach.

Talking to us

The number on this site is answered by the person who makes the decision on your property. There's no lead-buying middleman between you and an offer, and nothing you tell us gets sold on to a list of other investors.

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