Fort Eustis · Army PCS home sales
A fair, no-obligation cash offer, fast, with no repairs and no showings in the middle of out-processing. Choose your closing date; the sale closes on it once title is clear.
Remodeling Investment Group is a private company. We are not affiliated with or endorsed by the U.S. Navy, the Department of Defense or any branch of the U.S. military. Base names are used only to describe where our sellers live and work.
If you just got orders
The orders came down. Now there is a report date, a household goods pickup to book, a clearing checklist to walk around post, and a house off Warwick Boulevard or Jefferson Avenue that is not coming with you.
Then come the questions. Rent it out? List it and hope it sells before you go? What about the VA loan? And who signs at closing if you are already at the next post?
Here are straight answers from a local buyer owned by a Navy veteran, including the cases where renting or listing beats selling to us.
Your options
No single answer fits every Army family. Here is what each path asks of you, before and after you sign out of post.
Option 1
For the family that expects the Army to send it back to the Peninsula: if the rent outruns the note and the house could take a tenant tomorrow, holding on can pay.
Option 2
If the house is already updated and your report date is a long way off, the open market may pay more, provided someone keeps it tidy for showings while you clear.
Option 3
Built for a report date that will not budge, and for an older house in Denbigh or Hilton with a roof or HVAC system nobody will be here to replace.
What listing looks like right now
Sell vs. rent
Some Army families rent and are glad they did; others end up managing a Newport News plumber by phone from the next duty station.
| Sell to us As-is cash sale | Keep it Rent it out | |
|---|---|---|
| Money | A lump sum at closing, once the mortgage payoff comes out of the sale price. | A monthly margin, if the rent beats the note, taxes, insurance, repairs and a manager’s fee combined. |
| After you leave | No landlord duties follow you to the next post. | Tenant calls, repair bids and lease renewals, handled long-distance. |
| Repairs | None. Our offer already prices in the roof, the HVAC and whatever else is worn. | Get it ready for a tenant, then fix what breaks for as long as you own it. |
| VA loan | Paid off by the sale, which VA lists as one route to restoring your entitlement. | It stays open. Per VA, any remaining entitlement may still help with the next home. |
| Risk | Appreciation after closing belongs to whoever owns it next. | Vacant months between tenants, plus a renter in uniform who can break the lease on their own orders. |
Our honest take: a rental only earns its keep if the numbers work without you there to babysit them. If they do not, a clean sale before you clear post is the simpler move.
Orders to closing
Work backward from the report date on your orders. There is no set countdown; you choose every date.
As soon as you have orders
Add the household goods pickup if it is booked, and whether the family still lives there. It takes a few minutes.
While you start clearing post
We walk through the house as it stands, moving boxes and all, at a time you pick. If the number does not work, say no; you owe us nothing.
Once the household goods pickup is booked
Close before your final out, or after the movers have pulled away and only the keys are left to hand over. Either way, you set the date, and the sale closes on it once title is clear.
Closing day, on the Peninsula or at your new post
Already at the next post? Your closing agent can tell you whether mail-away or remote signing, or a power of attorney, will work.
Report date. You report to your next duty station, with the house handled.
VA loan
A sale that pays the VA loan off in full is one route VA describes for getting used entitlement back. Here is its guidance in plain words.
Your lender or VA, not us, can confirm your exact entitlement and how it carries to a purchase at the next duty station. We buy houses and leave the lending side to lenders.
A closing date and a report date do not always line up. If you are already at your next post, or deployed, selling may not require a trip back to Virginia.
Early on, find out from your closing agent whether mail-away or remote signing is possible, and whether a power of attorney is acceptable and in what form. Then get it done while you are still on post, where it is far easier to arrange.
The Servicemembers Civil Relief Act reaches a Fort Eustis homeowner in two places: a pre-service mortgage that falls behind, and a lease signed by a renter in uniform.
Your own facts decide whether these rules reach you, so run them past a military legal assistance attorney. None of this is legal advice.
U.S. Army · Newport News
From Denbigh to the Southeast Community, we make cash offers on Newport News houses in any condition, and we buy across the rest of Hampton Roads as well.
Newport News neighborhoods we buy in
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Meet Angel
Angel Gomero owns Remodeling Investment Group, and he served in the U.S. Navy. Different branch, same reality: the date on the orders is set, and the rest of your life bends around it.
His contractor background matters here. Walk him through a Newport News house a few decades old and he can see what the roof, the HVAC or the bathrooms truly need, then price that work honestly instead of padding it, which counts when the work happens after you have moved on.
Last, he is local to Hampton Roads. This is not a national franchise or an app, and you deal directly with the man making the offer.
Angel is a U.S. Navy veteran. He understands PCS orders and deployments firsthand, and he can plan a sale around your report date.
Angel has worked as a contractor. He can walk through a house and price the repairs honestly, instead of padding them to push your offer down.
Remodeling Investment Group is based here in Hampton Roads. You are not dealing with a national franchise or an app.
No repairs, no cleaning. Sell the house the way it is today and close on the date you pick, once title is clear.
Questions
Rent if the numbers clear the mortgage, taxes, insurance and upkeep, and you expect the Army to bring you back to the Peninsula. Selling is the cleaner route if a landlord job at long distance sounds like one more thing you do not need. A sale that pays off a VA loan also opens the route VA describes for restoring your entitlement.
That is how many PCS sales are planned. You pick the closing day, and the sale closes on it once title is clear. Give us your report date and your household goods pickup at the start, then choose a day with a cushion on either side.
Possibly. VA lists selling the home and paying the loan off in full as one route to having used entitlement restored. Your lender can file the updated Certificate of Eligibility request for you and then walk you through buying at the next post.
No. We buy in any condition, as-is, and price the house exactly as it stands, from a worn-out roof or a tired HVAC system to a kitchen nobody has touched in decades. The offer accounts for that work, so you never pay for repairs, a deep clean or staging up front.
No. Remodeling Investment Group is a private Hampton Roads home buyer. Fort Eustis, JBLE, the Army, the Department of Defense and every other branch have no tie to us and have not endorsed us. Our only military connection is our owner’s own Navy service.
Stationed somewhere else in Hampton Roads? See the PCS guide for every base.
Free · No obligation · As-is
Start with the address and the day you report. You will get a fair, no-obligation cash offer for the house as it stands, and if you take it, you pick the day the sale closes.
Rather talk it through? Call (757) 386-0307 or send a text.
Remodeling Investment Group is a private company. We are not affiliated with or endorsed by the U.S. Navy, the Department of Defense or any branch of the U.S. military. Base names are used only to describe where our sellers live and work.