Meet Byron Johnson — your Florida cash home buyer.

We're a family-owned Florida cash home buyer. Byron Johnson founded the company after 15 years buying inherited and probate homes for relatives across the state. Today we've closed 500+ Florida transactions, hold a BBB A+ rating, and average 4.9 stars across 87+ Google reviews.

The Short Version

If you're scanning fast: we are not a hedge fund, not a tech startup, not a national franchise with a call center in Texas pretending to be local. We're a Florida family running a Florida business buying Florida houses with our own money. Byron is the person who picks up the phone. Byron is the person who walks the property. Byron is the person whose name is on the contract you sign and whose money funds the wire that hits your account at closing.

That's it. That's the whole pitch. Everything below is the long version.

How This Started

Byron's first cash purchase wasn't a business decision. It was a family one.

In 2010, his great-aunt passed in Hialeah. She left a small CBS three-bedroom to four heirs scattered across Florida, Georgia, and New Jersey. Two of them needed money fast. Two of them wanted to keep the house. Nobody wanted to deal with realtors, showings, repairs, or a probate attorney who billed by the quarter-hour while the property sat empty racking up code-enforcement notices for tall grass.

Byron offered to buy the heirs out at a fair price, fix the house himself on weekends, and either rent it or resell it. The four heirs got cash within 60 days of Letters of Administration being issued. Byron got his first investment property. The probate attorney got paid. The neighbor on the south side got his hedge trimmed. Everyone won.

Word got around. A cousin in Tampa called six months later — her ex-husband was leaving the marital home in a divorce and she needed to sell before the equity got fought over in court. Byron drove up that weekend, made an offer Sunday afternoon, closed on a Friday at a downtown Tampa title company.

Then a friend's father got into pre-foreclosure in Jacksonville. Then a snowbird in Cape Coral wanted out of his hurricane-damaged second home before another season. Then a landlord in Orlando called because three tenants in a row had stopped paying and he was tired of running back from his job in another state to handle eviction filings.

By 2015, Byron had stopped doing nights and weekends and gone full-time. By 2018, his brother joined as operations lead and his cousin started handling acquisitions. By 2022, the company had crossed 300 lifetime closings and added a dedicated probate-and-estate desk because half our calls came from heirs trying to settle estates.

Today, in 2026, we're past 500 transactions. The same four people who started this still run it. We still buy with our own money plus a small group of long-time partner-funders we've worked with for years. We still close at Florida title companies — not virtually, not at a UPS store, not at a notary's car window in a parking lot.

What We Do (And What We Don't)

What we do: Buy houses, condos, townhouses, mobile homes, duplexes, triplexes, four-plexes, and vacant land in Florida. Cash. As-is. Closing in seven days if you need it, or 90 days if that fits your life better. We pay the closing costs. We handle title issues. We deal with code-enforcement liens, open permits, expired insurance, hoarder cleanouts, fire damage, mold, sinkhole repairs, and tenant evictions on our side, after closing.

What we don't do: List your house on the MLS. Wholesale your contract to a third party. Tie you up in a 90-day inspection contingency and then re-trade you on the price the day before closing. Charge fees. Charge commissions. Pressure you to sign anything. Send a young man in a "We Buy Houses" t-shirt with a scripted pitch and no authority to actually buy.

If you want a polite "no" today, you'll get one. If you want a fair offer today, you'll get that too.

Our Mission

The mission is small. We want every Florida homeowner facing a hard housing decision — inherited a house from a parent, lost a job, served a Notice of Sale, ran out of insurance options after a hurricane, married someone they shouldn't have, retired and can't climb the stairs anymore — to have a real cash option that closes when they need it to close, at a price they can defend to themselves and their family.

That option used to mean calling a wholesaler who'd flip your contract to whoever bid highest. It increasingly means calling a Wall Street-funded iBuyer that uses an algorithm to lowball you, charges a 5% "service fee," and takes 60 days to close because the company is publicly traded and risk-averse. We think there's still room for the version we grew up with: a local family that buys houses with cash, closes when they say they will, and treats sellers like neighbors instead of inventory.

Our Values

Direct. We tell you what we'll pay and how we got there. We show our math: estimated after-repair value, estimated repair budget, holding costs, our margin. If you think any number is wrong, push back. We adjust when you're right.

Fast when it has to be. A foreclosure sale date is a foreclosure sale date. A Letters of Administration issuance is a date. A military PCS report-by date is a date. We've closed in five days when a date was the difference between selling and losing the house. We don't dramatize it — we just do it.

Slow when it has to be. Some sellers need 60 or 90 days to find a new place, finish out a school year, sort out a parent's care arrangement, or wait for a probate court to issue an order. We sign now and close later, no problem. Your timeline runs the deal.

Family first. Ours and yours. We won't take a house from someone who shouldn't be selling. If a family member calls us about a parent who seems confused or pressured, we slow the process down and bring in the family. We've walked away from contracts because something felt wrong. We'd rather lose a deal than buy a house from someone who'll regret it.

Florida only. We don't operate in 30 states. We operate in one. We know the difference between Miami-Dade and Broward closing timelines. We know which Tampa Bay zip codes are still in active flood-insurance crisis. We know which Orlando subdivisions have HOAs that fine you for visible roof tarps. We know that the probate clerk in Duval County is faster than the probate clerk in Hillsborough. That kind of knowing only comes from working one state for fifteen years.

Community

Most of what we do in the community we don't post about, because that's not why we do it. But for the record:

We sponsor a youth baseball team in Hialeah every spring. We donate to the Salvation Army's Florida hurricane recovery fund after every named storm that makes landfall. We've quietly forgiven seller debts on a handful of probate deals where the heirs were taking care of a sibling with special needs and needed every dollar at closing. We're members of the Florida Real Estate Investors Association and the Tampa Bay Chamber of Commerce. Two of our team members are veterans. One is a retired EMT.

We're not perfect. We've made bad offers we wish we hadn't. We've botched a few timelines. We answer to those when they happen, fix what we can, and try to do better next time.

The Team

Byron Johnson — Founder & Lead Buyer. Florida licensed real estate professional. Fifteen years buying houses across the state. Personally walks every property within an hour's drive of our Tampa office and most properties statewide for deals over a certain size. The voice on the phone when you call.

Operations Lead. Runs our title coordination, manages contractor relationships for post-close repairs, handles the BBB profile and review responses. The person who makes sure the wire actually shows up on the day we said it would.

Acquisitions Specialist. Handles incoming calls, runs the comparative market analysis, drafts the offer with Byron's sign-off. The person who walks you through the math line by line.

Closing Coordinator. Liaises with title companies in all 67 Florida counties, manages estoppels, payoffs, and lien searches. The person who knows which title companies in West Palm can close in five days and which ones still take three weeks.

(We'll publish full bios with photos as the team page rolls out. For now, if you want to know who you're working with, ask Byron when you call. He'll tell you.)

Trust Signals — What We've Earned

BBB A+ Accredited. No complaints in the past 12 months. Accredited member with full profile populated and reviews responded to within 24 hours.

4.9 stars on Google. 87+ verified reviews from sellers across Florida — Miami, Tampa, Jacksonville, Orlando, Cape Coral, Pensacola, Tallahassee, Lakeland, Sarasota, Fort Myers. We respond to every single one, positive or negative.

500+ Florida closings. Single-family, condos, mobile homes, multi-family, land. Every property type, every county, every situation.

Members of: Florida Real Estate Investors Association, National Real Estate Investors Association, Tampa Bay Chamber of Commerce, South Florida Real Estate Investors Association.

Florida licensed. Byron holds a Florida real estate license. We disclose buyer interest in every transaction, even though we're acting as principal not agent.

How We're Different from Corporate iBuyers

You've seen the ads. Big national brands with billion-dollar valuations promising algorithmic offers and weekend closings. Some of them are fine. Most of them are not what they look like in the commercial.

They use an algorithm. We use eyes. A national iBuyer pulls Zillow comps and a satellite view and emits a number. We drive to the property, walk the roof line, check the rafters in the attic, run a tape measure across the bedroom that "looks small in photos," and adjust accordingly. That's why our offers tend to come in higher on houses with good bones and lower on houses with deferred maintenance the algorithm misses.

They charge a service fee. We don't. Most national iBuyers charge a 5% "convenience fee" — that's $15,000 on a $300,000 house. We charge zero. Zero commission, zero closing-cost contribution from you. The number we offer is the number you take to the bank.

They re-trade. We don't. A common pattern: iBuyer signs a contract, runs an inspection, comes back with a $20,000 "repair credit" request right before closing. We've seen sellers hit with $35,000 reductions on contracts they thought were locked. Our contracts are firm at signing. We've never re-traded a Florida seller in 500 closings. (We have walked from a deal once or twice when a major undisclosed issue surfaced — the seller kept their earnest money.)

They take 30–60 days. We close in 7–14. A publicly traded iBuyer has compliance, internal funding, board-level risk reviews. By the time their close happens, you could have closed with us, deposited the cash, and started looking at your next chapter.

They're not Florida. A national iBuyer doesn't know that Citizens Insurance just dropped your zip code. They don't know that a Cat-4 hurricane is in the cone forecast for next week and you need to close before landfall. They don't know that your subdivision's HOA assessment for the new seawall is hitting in 60 days and you can't carry it. We do.

What Happens When You Call

You'll talk to a real person — usually Byron, sometimes our acquisitions lead. The conversation takes 8–15 minutes. We ask about the address, the situation, what you owe (if anything), what you'd like to walk away with, and your timing. We don't ask for your social security number, your date of birth, your bank info, or your credit score. We don't need them.

We schedule a property visit if you want one, or skip it if you'd rather not have us at the house. We run our numbers. We send the offer in writing — usually within 24 hours, sometimes the same day for urgent foreclosure or probate situations. The offer is good for 7 days, no pressure, no follow-up calls if you say no.

If you say yes, we send a one-page Florida-standard cash purchase contract, schedule the closing at a title company convenient to you, and hand you a check or wire on closing day. The whole thing takes anywhere from 7 days to 90 days, depending on what you need.

That's it. No surprises. No hidden steps. No high-pressure dinners with a "specialist" pitching a 30-minute slide deck. Just a fair cash offer, in writing, on your timeline.

Ready to Talk?

Call or text Byron at 951-331-3844. Or send a few details through our offer form and we'll come back within the hour during business days. Either way, you'll get a real human, a real conversation, and a real offer — no obligation, no pressure, no fees.

We've been doing this for fifteen years. We'd be glad to do it for you.