Naval Station Norfolk · PCS and deployment home sales
PCS move, homeport change or a spouse about to get underway: get a fair, no-obligation cash offer, fast, for the house exactly as it stands. Nothing to fix, nobody walking through while you pack out. You set the closing date, and we close that day 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 are official now. You have a report date, a pack-out to book, maybe a new school to find for the kids. And the Norfolk house is still sitting there, waiting on a decision.
Sometimes it is not even a PCS. One of you is about to deploy, and the spouse at home is left to sort out the house alone. Or the homeport is changing and the whole family is following the ship.
Either way, nobody wants to pay for an empty Norfolk house, or take a tenant’s leak call, from the next command or from the middle of the Atlantic. That is the problem a direct cash sale solves, and solving it is our whole business.
Your options
Each of these is the right call for some Norfolk families. Here is when each one fits, and what it costs you.
Option 1
Worth it when the rent clears the mortgage, taxes and insurance, and you expect orders back to Hampton Roads.
Option 2
Worth it when the house shows well, you have months before you report, and someone can keep it ready for showings.
Option 3
Worth it when your report date matters more than the last dollar, or the house needs work nobody will be around to manage.
What listing looks like right now
Sell vs. rent
Plenty of Navy families rent the house out and it works. Plenty of others end up managing a Norfolk rental from a ship or another state and wish they had not. Here is how the two compare.
| Sell to us As-is cash sale | Keep it Rent it out | |
|---|---|---|
| Money in your pocket | Your equity, paid out at closing once the loan is settled. | Rent each month, less the mortgage, insurance, city tax bill and upkeep. |
| While one of you is underway | Nothing to answer. The house is sold. | Leaks, late rent and renewals, handled by the spouse at home, a friend or a paid manager. |
| The house itself | Sold the way it stands. No repairs, no cleanout. | Fix it up enough to rent, then keep fixing what an older Norfolk house breaks. |
| City bills and insurance | They stop being yours once the sale closes. | The yearly reassessment, the refuse fee and the insurance stay on you, rented or empty. |
| VA entitlement | Pay the loan off through the sale, and VA says your entitlement may be restored. | The VA loan stays on the house. VA says you may still have some entitlement left for the next one. |
| Risk you keep | You give up any gain if Norfolk prices climb later. | Vacancies, damage, flood losses a homeowner’s policy will not pay for, and a military tenant who can leave on orders. |
| When you are done | On a closing date you set, after title clears. | Whenever you finally sell, usually from somewhere else. |
If the rent covers the costs and you want to come back to Norfolk, keep it. If it does not, or you would rather leave with the house behind you, a direct sale ends it on your terms.
Orders to closing
Start from the date you have to be gone and count back. We schedule every step around that date, and around the ship if one of you is deploying.
As soon as orders drop
Filling in the form is quick. Give us the report date, the pack-out date if it is set, any deployment dates, and whether anyone still lives in the house.
Before pack-out is booked
We walk through the house as it is, at a time that works around your duty schedule. Do not fix, clean or stage anything. If the offer does not work for you, turn it down; you owe us nothing.
Once the move is mapped out
Close while you are still living there, or after the movers have emptied it. Whichever day you pick, that is the day we close, once title is clear.
Closing day, in Norfolk or from afar
Still in town? Sign in person. Already at your next command, or signing for a spouse who is deployed? Ask the closing agent early what remote signing or power of attorney they will accept.
Report date. You report to your next duty station, with the house handled.
VA loan
If you bought the house with a VA loan, you likely want that entitlement working for you at the next duty station. This is what VA says about getting it back.
Your lender and VA can tell you how much entitlement you have left and what it means for your next loan. We buy houses; we are not a lender and cannot give loan advice.
A ship’s schedule and a closing date do not always line up. If you are underway, or the family has already left Hampton Roads, you may not need to be at the table for the sale to go ahead.
If one of you is deployed, the spouse at home may be able to handle most of the sale. If both names are on the deed, ask the closing agent early how the deployed owner can sign: by mail, remotely, or through a power of attorney, and what that power of attorney has to say before anyone drafts it.
Get that settled before the ship leaves if you can. And ask the title company whether it will accept a military notary on your documents.
Two parts of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act touch a house like yours: protection if you fall behind on a mortgage from before you joined, and a military renter’s right to leave on orders.
Whether any of this applies to you depends on the details. Ask a military legal assistance attorney; this page is general information, not legal advice.
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Meet Angel
Remodeling Investment Group belongs to Angel Gomero, a U.S. Navy veteran. Orders, deployments and report dates that will not move are nothing new to him, so you can skip the explaining.
He has a contractor’s background as well, so he can walk an older Norfolk house and price the repairs straight, without padding them, which matters when nobody in your family will be here to supervise a crew.
He is based here in Hampton Roads, not at a national franchise or behind an app. The person you talk to is the person 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
Yes, as long as title is clear by then: you choose the closing date and we close on it. Give us your report date and pack-out date at the start, and pick a closing date with some room before both.
It can be done, provided every owner’s signature can be handled from wherever they are. At the start, ask the closing agent whether they accept remote signing, signing by mail or a power of attorney for your sale, and get any power of attorney drafted in the form they need before the ship leaves.
Possibly: VA says used entitlement may be restored once the home is sold and the loan is paid in full. Request a Certificate of Eligibility showing the restoration online, through your lender, or on VA Form 26-1880, and ask your lender what it means for the next loan.
No. We buy houses as-is, in any condition, so you skip the repairs, the deep clean and the staging.
Not to us; we buy Norfolk houses as they are, wherever they sit. On a traditional sale, the buyer weighs the location and the noise: Virginia’s disclosure statement makes no representations about nearness to a military ground installation, and where a city’s zoning map designates an air-installation noise zone or accident potential zone, the seller has to disclose it.
It can, if the mortgage dates from before your military service: then a foreclosure sale during your service, or within a year after it, is not valid without a court order or a qualifying written agreement. A military legal assistance attorney can tell you whether that covers your loan.
Stationed somewhere else in Hampton Roads? See the PCS guide for every base.
Free · No obligation · As-is
Send the address, your report date and any deployment dates. We come back with a fair, no-obligation cash offer for the house as it stands, and the closing date is yours to pick.
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.