We Buy Houses in Gates, NY

Selling a house in Gates

Gates sits directly west of the city with around 29,000 residents and no village inside it. It filled in during the same post-war decades as Greece and Irondequoit, and its housing shows it: capes, ranches and small two-storeys from the late 1940s through the 1960s, many still owned by the original family or their estate.

What sets Gates apart is construction. An unusually large share of its houses were built on concrete slabs or shallow crawl spaces rather than full basements. That is not a defect, but it is a specific set of problems when the house is fifty to seventy years old: heating runs and plumbing embedded in or under the slab, no easy access for repairs, moisture in crawl spaces that were never ventilated well, and no basement to absorb the storage and mechanicals a family accumulates.

The practical consequence is that a Gates house needing a furnace and a plumbing repair can be more expensive to fix than the same house on a full basement in Greece, and financed buyers' inspectors know it. Add a roof on its third covering and original windows, and the house is often not financeable as it stands. That is the situation behind most of the calls we get from Gates, and it is a pricing question rather than a marketing one.

Common reasons Gates homeowners call us

• A house that needs major repairs — furnace, plumbing and roof due together on a slab house.
• An inherited house — original-family houses passing to heirs.
• A vacant house — empty since a move to care, going into another winter.

How it works

1. Tell us the address and answer three quick questions, or call.
2. We walk the house once and send a written offer within 24–48 hours.
3. You pick the closing date. We cover typical closing costs.

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Neighbourhoods and nearby areas

We buy throughout Gates — the Buffalo Road, Lyell Avenue and Spencerport Road corridors, Elmgrove, Hinchey Road, Long Pond Road south of the Greece line, and the neighbourhoods around Westgate. Also nearby in Greece, Chili, Ogden and Spencerport, and the city's 19th Ward, Dutchtown and Lyell-Otis.

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