Chesapeake, VA · Navy veteran-owned
A 1990s house with the original heat pump, a parent’s place nobody can get to, orders out of the Northwest Annex, or a yard that floods with every big storm. Ask a local, Navy veteran-owned company for a fair, no-obligation cash offer on the Chesapeake house, fast.
Your situation
You bought in Chesapeake for the yard and the room to spread out. Now life is moving faster than the house can be made ready to list.
Maybe it is a two-story from the early ’90s with a tired heat pump and a roof that has seen thirty summers. Maybe it was your mother’s ranch in South Norfolk, and the quarterly tax bills keep coming whether anyone lives there or not.
Either way, you want a straight answer to one question: what will someone pay for this place exactly as it is? No weekends of showings, no contractor’s wish list first, and no pressure to say yes.
Your options
Four paths, laid out plainly. Three of them do not involve us at all, and for some houses one of those is the smarter choice.
Median sale price of detached Chesapeake homes in September 2026, not counting waterfront or new construction: $435,000.
Why us
The company is Angel Gomero’s. Angel served in the U.S. Navy, calls Hampton Roads home, and has worked as a contractor. He is also a real estate investor who has closed on a lot of properties.
In a city with Navy land from Fentress down to the Northwest Annex, that matters. Angel has lived by orders himself, so your report date gets planned around, not argued with.
Walking a ’90s house in Western Branch or Great Bridge, he can tell what a worn-out heat pump or a spongy subfloor will really cost. The offer rests on honest repair numbers, not padded ones. We also work directly with licensed real estate professionals.
Chesapeake has Navy ground of its own: the Northwest Annex out in Hickory near the North Carolina line, and the Fentress landing field. For many owners here, a set of orders is what puts the house on the market.
When orders reach a family at the Annex or Fentress, the house is usually the hardest thing to move. Renting it or listing it from out of state keeps you tied to Chesapeake long after the moving truck pulls away. Sell to us and the closing is planned around your report date, with no strangers walking through while the boxes get taped.
Part of Naval Support Activity Hampton Roads, in the rural Hickory section of southern Chesapeake near the North Carolina line. It is also home to the Naval Consolidated Brig, Chesapeake.
Source: Wikipedia: Naval Support Activity Hampton Roads (Northwest Annex section) (opens in a new tab)
A Navy auxiliary airfield inside Chesapeake. A Virginia statute deals with localities buying property rights around it.
Source: Va. Code § 15.2-1800.2 (Fentress NALF in Chesapeake) (opens in a new tab)
Flood risk
The city’s own flood page says most of Chesapeake is susceptible to some level of flooding. It even posts live tide gauge readings for Bells Mill Road, Dock Landing Road and the Northwest River at Route 168.
That shows up when you sell. A buyer using a federally backed mortgage in the 100-year floodplain has to carry flood insurance, and the city notes a new flood policy takes 30 days to go into effect. Both can add cost and delay to a traditional sale.
We buy Chesapeake houses in flood zones, and houses that have already taken on water, as they are. There is no flood policy for us to line up and no lender to satisfy.
Homes built around 1989
By Census estimates, the typical Chesapeake home dates to 1989. That puts a large share of the city’s houses in their thirties, the age when roofs, heat pumps, water heaters and windows tend to give out around the same time.
A financed buyer will usually have the house inspected, and on a late-’80s Chesapeake house the report tends to circle the same items: the heat pump, the shingles, the ductwork, a soft spot in the subfloor by the tub. We build those repairs into our number up front, as a contractor would, so you never have to line up the work.
Back taxes
Chesapeake splits the real estate tax into four installments, due September 30, December 31, March 31 and June 5. On a vacant or inherited house, that is four reminders a year that the place is costing you money.
Fall far enough behind and the Treasurer has serious tools, including tax lien sales and selling the property for the delinquent taxes. Selling first usually lets the past-due amount come out of your proceeds at closing.
Assessments
If your assessed value changed, the Assessor mails a notice by March 1, and the new value takes effect July 1. For an owner who is already stretched, a bigger number on that notice is often when selling stops being a someday idea.
The rate has sat at $1.01 per $100 since FY2023, so your bill rises and falls with the assessment itself.
Local costs
Two numbers shape what an empty house costs you each year and what comes off the top at closing: the city’s real estate tax and Virginia’s grantor tax.
Real estate tax, FY2027
$1.01 per $100 of assessed value
That is a $1.00 general levy plus one cent for mosquito control, the same total as FY2026. It is billed in four installments a year.
Holding cost example: at that rate, a house assessed at $378,400 owes about $3,822 a year in real estate tax, roughly $318 a month.
State grantor tax
$0.50 per $500 of value
By statute the seller pays it, though the contract can hand a share of it, or all of it, to the purchaser. Any offer you compare should say who covers it.
| Example sale price | $378,400 |
|---|---|
| $500 units | 757 |
| Grantor tax at $0.50 each | $378.50 |
Example price: the Census median value of an owner-occupied Chesapeake home. Source: Census Bureau American Community Survey 2020–2024 (5-year), Chesapeake city, as republished by Census Reporter (opens in a new tab). Law: Va. Code § 58.1-802(A) (opens in a new tab)
Selling to us
The city’s FY2027 levy ordinance, docketed for council action on May 12, 2026, carries the same $1.00 general and $0.01 mosquito control levies.
Virginia also collects a state recordation tax when the deed is recorded, figured at 25 cents per $100 on the sale price or on the most recent assessment if that is larger. The law leaves open which party pays it.
Examples are illustrations from public figures, not a quote or tax advice.
Where we buy
From the older blocks of South Norfolk to the farm roads around Hickory. These are areas Chesapeake itself calls out in its planning documents and history.
The former city whose merger with Norfolk County on January 1, 1963 created Chesapeake.
An original borough. City Council adopted its new area plan on May 19, 2026.
Source: City of Chesapeake: Deep Creek Area Plan (opens in a new tab)
Planned together with Deep Creek in that same 2026 area plan.
Source: City of Chesapeake: Deep Creek Area Plan (opens in a new tab)
An original borough, on the route of the planned rail trail linking Suffolk and Portsmouth.
Source: City of Chesapeake: Capital Improvement Projects by Planning Area (opens in a new tab)
One of six boroughs drawn up in the 1961 consolidation agreement.
Another of the six boroughs from that 1961 agreement.
An original borough that takes in the Georgetown subdivision on Providence Road.
Source: City of Chesapeake: Capital Improvement Projects by Planning Area (opens in a new tab)
Home to the Great Bridge Historic Gateway Overlay District and a city façade grant.
Source: City of Chesapeake: Capital Improvement Projects by Planning Area (opens in a new tab)
The subject of a city planning study and redevelopment strategy, plus Indian River Road design guidelines.
Source: City of Chesapeake: Capital Improvement Projects by Planning Area (opens in a new tab)
A growing area, in the city’s words, slated for a replacement fire station.
Source: City of Chesapeake: Capital Improvement Projects by Planning Area (opens in a new tab)
Rural southern Chesapeake, where the Navy’s Northwest Annex sits.
Don’t see your part of town? We buy all over Chesapeake, in any condition. Get my cash offer
Your situation
Pick the one closest to yours. Each page explains how a direct, as-is sale works in that situation.
How it works
You can stop at any point. Asking for an offer costs nothing and commits you to nothing.
Share the address and a few details online. It takes a few minutes, and there is no obligation.
We look at the house as it is and give you a fair, no-obligation cash offer, fast.
If you accept, you pick the closing date. We close on that date, once title is clear.
Sellers
Seamless experience from start to finish.
I had to relocate for a new job on short notice and needed to sell my home fast without dealing with endless open houses or repair demands from retail buyers. Remodeling Investment Group made a direct cash offer, handled all the paperwork, and let me pick my closing date. Truly stress-free!
Saved me from a huge headache!
I inherited a property that needed a massive amount of work—roof leaks, outdated plumbing, you name it. I didn’t have the time or funds to fix it up before putting it on the market. Remodeling Investment Group came through with a fair cash offer within 24 hours. The process was smooth, transparent, and we closed in under two weeks. Couldn't recommend them enough!
Perfect solution for landlords ready to step away.
After dealing with problematic tenants and constant repairs on my rental property, I was ready to exit. Remodeling Investment Group bought the property as-is—no cleaning or repairs required. They were honest, polite, and kept every promise they made. A top-tier team!
Questions
All of them. South Norfolk’s older blocks, Western Branch, Great Bridge, Deep Creek, Indian River and rural Hickory down by the Annex, whatever shape the house is in.
On the date you pick, once title is clear. There is no buyer’s lender, appraisal or flood policy to wait on, so the timing mostly comes down to you and the title work.
Yes, as it stands, whether it is mapped in an AE zone or water has already come across the floors. If two or more flood claims over $1,000 were paid within a rolling 10-year window and you know it, § 55.1-708.2 of the Virginia Code makes disclosure your duty. Just tell us when you call.
You can list, rent it out or sell to us, and we set the closing around your report date. If the mortgage was taken out before your military service, federal law bars a foreclosure sale during service, or for a year after, without a court order or a qualifying written agreement (50 U.S.C. § 3953).
Yes. Past-due taxes are normally paid off from the sale at closing. At least 30 days before a Virginia tax-sale case starts, the collector has to mail the owner a notice offering the chance to request an installment plan lasting as long as 72 months. Clearing the full balance before the sale date ends it (Va. Code § 58.1-3965).
Usually, with one caution for the first twelve months. Under Va. Code § 64.2-534, if an heir sells within those twelve months, the deceased’s creditors can generally still pursue the property, unless the statute’s conditions are satisfied. An estate attorney can tell you whether they are in your case, and we will time the closing to match.
Selling to us means you pay no agent commissions. We also cover standard closing costs. As for Virginia’s grantor tax (Va. Code § 58.1-802), it belongs to the seller unless a buyer agrees otherwise, and our closing figures show in writing who pays it.
Free · No obligation · As-is
Send the address and a few details. You get a fair, no-obligation cash offer, fast, and you decide what happens next.
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