Service Areas

Two Counties, and We Know Both of Them Well

We are a small family business based in Fairhope, and we buy houses in Mobile County and Baldwin County, Alabama. That is not a marketing radius drawn on a map — it is where we actually go, where we have bought houses, and where we can be standing in your driveway a day or two after you call.

There is a reason we do not list forty cities. A buyer who claims the whole Southeast is either sending your information somewhere else or has never seen a street in your neighbourhood. What a house is worth on Moffett Road is not what it is worth in Magnolia Springs, and only somebody who works both places can tell you the difference without guessing.

Mobile County

Most of the houses we buy in a given year are here. Mobile County has older housing stock than Baldwin, far more of it is owner-occupied at the affordable end, and a great many of those houses have needs that a retail buyer’s lender will not overlook — an older roof, knob-and-tube wiring, a foundation that has settled, storm damage that was never properly repaired. Those are exactly the houses that sit on the open market and then sell to us.

• Mobile — midtown, west Mobile, the neighbourhoods off Airport and Government, and everything in between. The largest market we work in and the one we watch the closest.
• Theodore — south of the city along US-90, where lots are bigger and a lot of houses are older than the people selling them.
• Semmes — west on Moffett Road, a mix of county subdivisions and acreage.
• Saraland — north on US-43, one of the steadier markets in the county.
• Satsuma — small-town Mobile County just up the highway from Saraland.
• Creola — the north end of the county, rural and often overlooked by out-of-town buyers.
• Grand Bay — southwest toward the Mississippi line, where land often matters more than the house on it.
• Belle Fontaine — the Fowl River side, where flood history and elevation drive value more than square footage.
• Dauphin Island — the barrier island at the mouth of the bay, with its own insurance and construction realities.

If your house sits somewhere in the county that is not on this list — Eight Mile, Tillmans Corner, Wilmer, Irvington, Bayou La Batre, Chickasaw, Prichard — call anyway. We buy there too; we simply have not written a page for every place yet. Start at the Mobile County page.

Baldwin County

Baldwin is where we live and where we started. It is a different market from Mobile — newer construction, higher prices, and a population that keeps growing — but the reasons people need to sell quickly are exactly the same: an inherited house nobody lives in, a rental that stopped making sense, a divorce, a job that moved, a repair bill larger than the bank account.

• Fairhope — our own town.
• Daphne — the Eastern Shore just north of us.
• Spanish Fort — at the head of the bay by the causeway.
• Bay Minette — the county seat, and the north Baldwin market we get called into most.
• Stapleton — rural north Baldwin, where acreage is common.
• Loxley — where I-10 meets Highway 59.
• Robertsdale — central Baldwin on US-90.
• Summerdale — between Robertsdale and Foley on 59.
• Foley — south Baldwin’s biggest market and one of the fastest changing.
• Elberta — east Baldwin farm country.
• Magnolia Springs — along the Magnolia River, where a lot of the housing stock is old and characterful and expensive to keep up.
• Lillian — on Perdido Bay right at the Florida line.
• Perdido Beach — small, quiet, and rarely covered by anyone else.
• Gulf Shores — the beach market, including condos and rental properties.
• Orange Beach — the same, with its own set of storm and insurance questions.

Silverhill, Bon Secour, Josephine, Seminole, Gasque, Point Clear, Barnwell and Belforest are all inside what we cover as well. The county overview is on the Baldwin County page.

What We Buy Across Both Counties

Condition is almost never the reason we say no. We buy single-family houses, duplexes and small multi-family, mobile homes on land, condos, and vacant lots. Specifically, we buy:

• Houses that need more repair than the owner wants to fund — including fire and smoke damage, storm damage, and water damage that has been sitting.
• Inherited houses, whether or not probate has been opened.
• Rentals with tenants still in them, current or not.
• Houses behind on payments, in foreclosure, or with liens and back taxes attached.
• Empty houses that are costing somebody money every month.
• Houses that have already been listed and did not sell.

Why We Stay Inside These Two Counties

Because an accurate offer is a local one. We price a house against what has actually sold within a few streets of it in the last few months, not against a county average, and we estimate repairs from what the work genuinely costs here — with the roofers, plumbers and HVAC crews we actually use, at their prices, on their schedule. Move that same house a hundred miles and both of those numbers change. A buyer who quotes you a number sight-unseen from another state is either padding it heavily to protect themselves or planning to renegotiate later. We would rather look at it and be right the first time.

Common Questions

Do you buy houses outside Mobile and Baldwin counties?

Occasionally, in the neighbouring parts of Escambia and Washington counties and just over the Florida line, but we are honest about it: the further from home a house is, the less confident we are in the number, and a cautious offer helps nobody. Call and ask — if it is too far for us to be useful, we will say so rather than waste your week.

Do you buy land as well as houses?

Yes. Vacant lots, acreage and unbuildable parcels, in both counties. Land is often simpler and faster to close than a house because there is nothing to inspect.

How quickly can you come and look at a house?

Usually within a day or two, because everything on this page is inside about an hour of Fairhope. That is the practical advantage of a small local buyer over a national one.

Do you buy condos and beach properties?

Yes, in Gulf Shores, Orange Beach and along the bay. Those come with their own questions — association dues, assessments, insurance history, rental restrictions — so expect us to ask about those before we talk about a number.

My town is not listed. Does that mean you will not buy it?

No. The list above is where we have written pages, not the limit of where we work. If it is in Mobile County or Baldwin County, we buy there.

Start Wherever Makes Sense

If you want to see how the process works before you talk to anyone, read how to sell your house — it walks through all five steps and what goes into the offer. If you already know what you want, request a cash offer or read more about selling a house in Alabama.

Or just call or text (251) 655-1515 and tell us where the house is. We will know the street.