19th, Indiana, 34th, and Quaker — the box Lubbock draws around Maxey Park
Maxey Park is a neighborhood inside Lubbock, not a town outside it — the boundary is the box the City’s own Code Administration Department has used, in back-to-back neighborhood deployments in 2025 and 2026, to define this area: 19th Street north, Indiana Avenue east, 34th Street south, Quaker Avenue west. The avenues crossing the numbered streets include Nashville, Miami, Memphis, and Joliet, the same alphabet grid as the rest of central Lubbock. It sits inside ZIP 79410, Lubbock County, appraised by the Lubbock Central Appraisal District, a mile and a half south of Texas Tech. Kids here are zoned to Lubbock ISD; the campus inside the boundary is Overton Elementary.
A park with a lake in the middle, and houses built once, in the 1950s
At the center is Maxey Park itself — about 100 acres with ball fields, walking paths, the Maxey Community Center, and one of only three splash pads the City runs. The lake inside it is a playa, the shallow depression that fills after a hard rain and dries out again. The park is named for James Barney Maxey, the contractor who built Lubbock’s first water system in the 1920s.
The houses around it went up almost all at once: median year built here is 1958, and 765 of the roughly 1,560 housing units — nearly half — date to the 1950s. Nine in ten are single detached houses, mostly three bedrooms. Only twenty units have gone up since 2000; whatever is standing here is what somebody is either keeping up or letting go.
Paid off, or rented to a Texas Tech student — not much in between
If a house here has an owner living in it, it is probably paid off: 280 of 413 owner-occupied homes — 68 percent — are free and clear, against 43 percent citywide. But most occupied houses are not owner-occupied at all — seven in ten, 980 of 1,393, are rentals. Texas Tech’s south campus boundary is 19th Street, this neighborhood’s own north edge, and median rent here, $1,398, beats the $1,182 city median. A Maxey Park landlord manages one tired rental house at a time, not a complex — 1,377 of 1,561 units are single detached houses.
The city already has a list of your street
Twice in the past two years, City of Lubbock Code Administration has run a neighborhood deployment here — a one-day walk of the area, field office at 30th and Nashville. The most recent ran August 2026, the one before it August 2025. Inspectors work this same box for junked vehicles, weeds and rubbish, substandard housing, and zoning violations, and the City brings a free dumpster for old furniture.
It is a public program, announced ahead of time, and it is not ours. But if a house on your street got a notice, that is a real reason people call us: selling does not erase a code case, but a seventy-year-old house is expensive to bring up to code, and some owners would rather sell.
Hail, the playa, and a slab that shifts a little
Lubbock County has seen steady hail and wind through this part of the city, including golf-ball-size hail in 2025. The National Weather Service’s account of the June 1, 2016 flood is direct: “Several playa lakes overflowed their banks and inundated homes, vehicles, and businesses.” Maxey Lake is one of those playas — check your own address on FEMA’s flood map; we will not hand you a zone we have not verified.
The federal soil survey rates the ground here — mapped as Amarillo, Acuff, Olton, and Estacado urban-land complexes — “somewhat limited” for a concrete slab, on moderate shrink-swell clay. Not the severe expansive clay people mean in Dallas — the ordinary kind that makes a door stick every August and opens a hairline crack in a seventy-year-old slab.
Who actually taxes and inspects a Maxey Park house
One thing surprises people: the Lubbock Central Appraisal District does not just set your value, it collects the tax bill too — county, city, and Lubbock ISD, all paid through LCAD, not a separate tax office. Deeds record downtown at the Lubbock County Clerk’s office, 904 Broadway. Code cases run through City of Lubbock Code Enforcement, not the county — no county zoning here, and no septic tank, since you are on city water and sewer.
How selling to us actually works
You call or fill out the form with the address. We look at the house and give you a cash number with the math behind it. No repair list, no cleaning out; if there is furniture in it at closing, that is fine.
| Cash sale to Electrum | Listing with an agent | |
|---|---|---|
| Timeline | You pick the date | Market-dependent |
| Repairs | None — we buy as-is | Usually required |
| Closing costs | We cover all closing costs on purchase | Typically split |
| Commissions | None | Yes |
We buy for our own account, and sometimes assign the contract instead — we tell you which before you sign, and we are not acting as your real estate agent. See our Lubbock selling options page, or how we buy houses.
When a cash offer is not your best move
If your house is a solid 1958 three-bedroom with good bones and you have the time and cash for a normal closing, list it — an agent will likely net you more than we can on a house that does not need work. Same if you have a tenant paying on time and no urgency to sell.
Where we make more sense: the paid-off house you inherited and do not want to manage as a rental, the tenant situation you are done with, or the house sitting empty for months — 168 units here are vacant and none are listed for sale. Same for a roof or foundation that would fail a lender’s inspection, or a plumbing or kitchen problem that keeps a house from qualifying for financing.
Situations we buy in around Maxey Park
- Inherited houses — the paid-off house nobody wants to landlord.
- Rental property and bad tenants — most occupied houses here are rentals, near Texas Tech.
- Vacant houses — none of Maxey Park’s vacant units are on the market.
- Code violations — after a neighborhood deployment or any other city notice.
- Hail and storm damage, liens, back property taxes, a mortgage that got too high, or relocating.
We also buy in Overton, Tech Terrace, Arnett-Benson, and the Heart of Lubbock — see all our options on the compare page.
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Maxey Park questions we actually get
My house is in the area the city just swept for code violations. Does that change anything for you?
No. It is a public program on its own schedule; it does not mean your house is condemned. We buy houses with an open code case — selling will not erase it, but it gets the property off your hands.
Is my house at risk because of the playa lake?
The playa is part of how this area drains, and NWS has recorded flooding here from overflowing playas before. Check your own flood zone on FEMA’s map — we will not guess it for you.
What if my house has plumbing or kitchen problems a bank won’t finance?
That is a normal situation here, not a dealbreaker for us. Some older houses in this tract are missing complete plumbing or a full kitchen — exactly what a retail lender will not touch. We buy as-is.
Who do I actually pay property tax to in Maxey Park?
The Lubbock Central Appraisal District, not a separate county tax office. LCAD appraises the property and collects the bill for the county, city, Lubbock ISD, the hospital district, and the water district at once.
Get a cash offer on your Maxey Park house
Send us the address — Nashville, Miami, Joliet, wherever it sits inside the box. We cover all closing costs on purchase. You pick the closing date. When speed matters we can close in as little as 7 days on the right deal.
Call or text 806-630-0875. We buy houses in Maxey Park, Lubbock, Texas 79410. Our referral program pays $500 per closed deal.