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Selling a House Worth Less Than the Land In Pinecrest? We Can Buy Your House For Cash.

No repairs, realtor fees, or pressure. Choose your closing date.

If the house on your Pinecrest lot is worth less than the ground it sits on, you are not selling a house any more — you are selling land, and it should be priced that way.

  • We buy for lot value, so the condition of the house stops mattering
  • No repairs, cleaning or showings
  • We buy occupied properties, including difficult tenant situations
  • Liens, violations, open permits and demolition orders are ours to fix
  • Close in as little as seven days, or later — and stay up to 30 days after
  • Sell as-is — no repairs or cleaning
  • No commissions or hidden fees
  • Flexible closing and move-out timing

Rather talk it through? Call or text (786) 869-4909

How it works

  1. Tell us about the propertyEnter the address or call. We'll ask a few questions about the house and your situation.
  2. Get your cash offerA clear, no-pressure offer. No commissions, and no obligation to accept it.
  3. Choose your closing dateClose in as little as seven days, or later. We pay the customary closing costs.
An Allapattah house Johnson Buys bought with bare block walls, and the same house after a full gut renovation
Allapattah — the same house, the day we bought it and the day we finished it.

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Tell us where the property is and how to reach you. Someone local from Johnson Buys will call you in less than 5 minutes to learn about the property and explain your options.

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How it works

Three simple steps to your cash offer

No repairs, no commissions, and no obligation at any point.

  1. Tell us about the propertyEnter the address or call. We'll ask a few questions about the house and your situation.
  2. Get your cash offerA clear, no-pressure offer. No commissions, and no obligation to accept it.
  3. Choose your closing dateClose in as little as seven days, or later. We pay the customary closing costs.
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LOT VALUE

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Priced on the land, not the condition

700+ South Florida properties bought since 2012
across Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach — houses, duplexes and small apartment buildings, in every condition.

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Meet Chris

I'm Chris Johnson. I've been buying houses in South Florida since 2012 — more than 700 so far, in every condition.

When you reach out, you'll talk to me directly. I'll look at the property, tell you what we can take on, and give you a straightforward cash offer. No pressure, and no obligation.

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Your house probably isn't as complicated as you think

Some houses need more than fresh paint. Yours might have unresolved probate, non-paying tenants, open permits, an unsafe-structure violation, back taxes, major structural damage or a demolition order. We have bought all of those.

You do not need to solve any of it before calling us. We will look at the property, tell you what we can take on, and give you a straightforward cash offer.

What are you dealing with?

Whatever's wrong with it, it's probably on this list

Not sure whether we can buy yours? Call (786) 869-4909 and tell us what's happening.

Selling a House Worth Less Than the Land in Pinecrest?

We buy Pinecrest properties for the value of the lot, which is often more than a buyer looking for a home will pay for a house that needs everything. No repairs, no staging, and no explaining the condition to anybody.

Why we can pay for the land when a homebuyer cannot

A family looking for somewhere to live is pricing the house. They walk through a 1950s layout with original bathrooms and small rooms and they subtract for all of it, because they would have to live in it or fix it. On a large lot in a good area that can end up well below what the ground itself is worth.

We are pricing the ground. In many of these we buy the older house and then partner with a developer to build a new home on the lot. That is why the condition of the existing house stops mattering to our number, and why our number can be higher than an offer from somebody who wanted to move in.

Not every one comes down

Buying for lot value does not always mean demolition, and it would be wrong to let anybody assume it does. Plenty of these houses are worth keeping. In those we do a full gut renovation — back to the block, everything new — and often an addition, because square footage is usually where the value is on a large lot.

Which one it is depends on the house, the lot and what the street supports. It is a decision we make with a contractor and, where we are building, a developer.

And we will tell you which

If your house is one that comes down, we will say so before you sign, not let you find out from a permit notice afterwards.

For some owners that is simply the right answer — the building has reached the end of its life and the land is the asset. For others it is a house somebody grew up in, and that deserves a conversation rather than a surprise. If you would rather it went to a family who will live in it, say so; sometimes that is the better route and we will tell you if we think it is.

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