Mid-City properties sit in a specific spot in the city: old housing stock, active flood history, ongoing gentrification pressure, and a lot of family-held homes that have been in one line for three or four generations. If you own a Mid-City house you are ready to be done with, we buy in any condition, on your timeline, with cash. No repairs, no cleanup, no listing.

We are Bertucci Investment Group (BIG), a local cash home buyer. We work every Mid-City block, from Canal Street up past Esplanade to the edge of City Park, and along Bayou St. John from Orleans Avenue to Moss Street. Whatever your house needs (or does not need), we take it in its current state.

What we buy in Mid-City

Mid-City has one of the widest housing type mixes in the city, and we buy all of it:

• Shotgun singles, doubles, and camelbacks on the numbered streets
• Bungalows and craftsman-style houses along Bayou St. John
• Larger center-hall and raised center-hall homes on Esplanade Ridge
• Post-Katrina rebuilds that never got fully finished
• Vacant lots with foundations still standing after demolition
• Multi-family properties (up to 4 units)
• Rentals with tenants in place, including problem tenants

Flood-damage history does not disqualify a property. Most Mid-City houses have some. We already assume it in our numbers.

How our process works

1. Contact us. Call 504-920-4747 or send the address.
2. We walk the property. Same-day for vacant properties, scheduled around you for occupied ones.
3. Cash offer within 24 hours of the walk. After-repair value, minus renovation cost, minus a fair profit margin. In writing.
4. We close in 7 to 14 days. Complex title (successions, missing paperwork, adjudicated property status) can push us to 21 or 30. You choose the closing date.

Situations we handle in Mid-City

Inherited houses. Mid-City has a long tradition of family homes passed down through succession. If the house has been sitting since a parent or grandparent passed and no one in the family has the time, money, or agreement to deal with it, we can be the neutral cash offer that closes the chapter. We work directly with your succession attorney.

Foreclosure timeline pressure. Orleans Civil District Court sales move fast once a date is set. If title is workable we can close before the sale. Call as soon as you have the notice.

Flood damage. Post-Katrina, post-Ida, or from the drainage failures Mid-City deals with in heavy rain, we buy the house with the damage attached. Insurance claims can stay in your name if you want to keep working them.

Tax delinquency and adjudicated property. City of New Orleans tax delinquency, pending tax sales, or previously adjudicated properties recovered by the family: we buy them. Settled at closing from the proceeds.

Code violations. Blight declarations, demolition notices, tall-grass citations, unpermitted work findings: we take the property with the file attached and resolve after closing.

Hoarder cleanouts. We have closed on Mid-City houses where you could not walk into two of the four rooms. Leave everything. Take only what matters to you.

The Mid-City angle

Mid-City is the neighborhood in New Orleans where the offer math changes the most block-to-block. A house on the lakeside of Bayou St. John, one street from City Park, prices very differently than the same house four blocks toward Broad. A Faubourg St. John cottage on a quiet block prices differently than the same cottage backing up to a busy stretch. Because we work Mid-City constantly, we know which blocks are strong and which are still recovering, and our offers reflect the actual after-renovation resale, not a generic Mid-City average.

We also know the neighborhood-specific issues: the drainage, the older sewer laterals, the mix of raised and slab construction, the pockets of historic protection along Esplanade Ridge.

Why sellers work with BIG

No fees, no commissions, no closing costs charged to seller, no repair credits, no financing contingency. The number we quote holds. Closings happen. We use our own capital and a local title company you can look up.

If our number is not the right number for your situation, we will tell you honestly, and we can point you to a traditional agent instead. We do not lock up properties we cannot close on.

Get your offer today

Call 504-920-4747 or send the address. We will be at your Mid-City property within 48 hours and an offer will be in your hand within 24 hours after the walk.

Frequently asked questions

Do you buy houses on Bayou St. John or Esplanade Ridge specifically? Yes. Those are two of our strongest submarkets in Mid-City. Historic status, older systems, and pier-and-beam foundations are all factored into our offers.

What about a house that flooded in the last big rain event? We buy it. Recent flood damage does not change our willingness to close. If your carrier has an open claim, keep it. We can structure the deal around it.

Can I sell if I still owe more than the offer amount? Often, yes. We can sometimes negotiate short-sale terms with your lender on your behalf, or the difference may be smaller than you think once fees and repairs are stripped out. Call and we will run the actual numbers with you.

How fast can you actually close? 7 to 14 days for straightforward title. 5 business days is the fastest we have done in Mid-City. Complex successions push to 21 or 30.

Do I have to be at the closing? No. If you live out of state, sign at a notary near you. We wire the proceeds anywhere.

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