We buy houses in Warren, MI.

Warren is Michigan's third-largest city and it was built almost entirely in one stretch. When the GM Tech Center opened in 1956 and the tank plant was running, the farmland north of Eight Mile filled with small brick ranches and bungalows for the families working them — laid out on a dense grid between Van Dyke, Mound and Groesbeck. Seventy years later a great many of those houses are still with the family that bought them new, or with their children. That single fact shapes almost every sale we see here.

Areas we buy in Warren

We buy across all of Warren and its ZIP codes — 48088, 48089, 48091, 48092 and 48093 — from the older south end near Eight Mile up through Center Line's borders and the newer north end above Thirteen Mile.

The homes we buy

Warren is overwhelmingly 1950s and '60s single-family: brick ranches and bungalows, commonly 900 to 1,200 square feet on a small lot, many with a detached garage off the alley or the drive. Houses of that age and that era carry a predictable list — an end-of-life roof, a furnace older than the buyer, a fuse box or an early panel, aluminium wiring in some pockets, and a basement that has taken water at least once. Any one of those can stop a conventional lender, and an FHA appraisal will usually call them out and expect the seller to fix them first. We buy the house as it stands and do that work after closing.

Why Warren homeowners sell to us

The Warren sellers we hear from most:

• Inherited a parent's Warren house and live out of state
• The house needs a roof or a furnace and a lender has already balked
• Done being a landlord on a Warren rental
• A house sitting empty since a move or a passing
• Behind on taxes and needing it resolved

Whatever the situation, we'll make a fair cash offer — and if listing with our partner agent would net you more, we'll tell you that straight.