Where we buy
Local in the Fox Valley. Buying across all of Wisconsin.
House Buyer Dan is based in Appleton and has bought more houses in the Fox Valley and Green Bay than anywhere else since 2010. From that base we buy in 128 communities across 21 Wisconsin counties — Kenosha to Hudson, Milwaukee to Wausau, cities, villages and rural acreage alike.
Our home market
The Fox Valley and Green Bay are where we started and where we still spend most of our time. If your house is here, we can usually be standing in the driveway within a day or two.
Home market first, statewide second
Those two things are not in tension, but it is worth being precise about them. The Fox Valley and Green Bay are where we are local. The office is on Edgewood Drive in Appleton, Dan and Diana live here, and we have bought more houses within an hour of it than in the rest of the state combined. If your house is in Appleton, Green Bay, Oshkosh, Neenah or any of the villages between them, we can usually be standing in the driveway within a day or two.
Everywhere else in Wisconsin, we still buy — we just travel to do it. That is the honest distinction. A seller in La Crosse or Kenosha gets the same written offer, the same terms and the same On-Time Guarantee; the difference is that we drive further to look at the house, and we always do look at it.
What "we buy statewide" actually means
Plenty of companies say they buy across Wisconsin. What that usually means is that they will take your address, run it through a model, and email you a number without anyone ever looking at the house. We do it the other way round: we come and walk the property before we put a figure on it, and we show you the arithmetic behind that figure.
That is why these pages exist. A house in the Milwaukee bungalow belt has different problems from a converted lake cottage in Walworth County, a bluff-side property in La Crosse, or a leftover farmstead in Dodge County where the land was sold off years ago. Pre-1940 stock brings lead paint and knob-and-tube; the western lakes bring unpermitted additions; the northern townships bring wells, septic systems and long driveways. Each of those is a reason a financed sale falls apart, and none of them is a reason we walk away.
The same terms everywhere in the state
Wherever the house is, the offer works the same way. No fees and no commission. No repairs, no cleaning, and no cleanout — take what you want and leave the rest. No inspection contingency that lets us renegotiate a week later. You pick the closing date, and our On-Time Guarantee puts $5,000 in escrow at a Wisconsin title company behind it.
And if listing with an agent would genuinely net you more, we will tell you so. In the faster markets — Dane County, parts of Waukesha and Ozaukee — that is frequently the honest answer, and we would rather lose the deal than talk somebody into the wrong one.
Every county and community we buy in
128 communities across 21 Wisconsin counties, each with its own page on what the housing is like there and what local sellers ask us.
Fox Valley
Outagamie County
County seat: Appleton
Northeast Wisconsin
Lakeshore
Southeast Wisconsin
Milwaukee County
County seat: Milwaukee
Waukesha County
County seat: Waukesha
Ozaukee County
County seat: Port Washington
Walworth County
County seat: Elkhorn
South Central Wisconsin
Western Wisconsin
Central Wisconsin
What is the same everywhere in Wisconsin, and what is not
Some of this transaction is set by the state and does not vary by a single mile. Some of it changes at every municipal boundary. It is worth knowing which is which before you assume anything you have read applies to your address.
Set by the state, identical everywhere: foreclosure is judicial and runs through the circuit court. Estates mostly use informal administration. Marital property rules determine who has to sign. Tenancies transfer with the building. Sellers complete a Real Estate Condition Report unless exempt. The real estate transfer fee is $3 per $1,000 of value. Closings run through a title company rather than an attorney.
Set locally, and genuinely different: rental registration and inspection requirements, occupancy limits, property maintenance enforcement, historic district review, shoreland zoning administration, and how aggressively a county pursues tax delinquency. Two houses ten minutes apart can sit under different obligations because they are in different municipalities.
That is the practical reason each county and community has its own page — the state-level answer is only half of what you need, and the local half is the half that stops sales.
What travels with us, and what we check at the address
Wherever the house is, four things are fixed. Somebody comes and walks it. The offer is written, arrives within 24 hours, and shows the arithmetic. There is no inspection contingency that lets us come back and renegotiate. You pick the closing date, with the On-Time Guarantee behind it.
What we work out at the address rather than assuming: which municipality actually has jurisdiction, whether there is an open order or an unrecorded permit history, whether the property is inside shoreland or floodplain zoning, whether it is on private well and septic, and what the title work at that county's Register of Deeds turns up. None of these change whether we buy. All of them change how long it takes and what the number is, which is why we would rather find them in week one than in week five.
If you want to check us the same way, the county pages below list each Register of Deeds, treasurer and circuit court — the records are public and you do not need anybody's permission to look at them.
Questions about where we buy
My town is not listed. Does that mean you will not buy there?
Do you actually visit, or do you make offers sight-unseen?
Is the offer different if I am further from Appleton?
Why are the Fox Valley and Green Bay singled out?
Do you buy rural property and acreage, or only houses in town?
Not sure if we buy in your area?
Ask anyway. If we are not the right buyer for your house, we will tell you who is.
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