Sell my house fast in Hartford, Wisconsin.

Kissel, Broan and the houses near the Rubicon

Hartford began as the Town of Wright in 1846 and took the name of Hartford, Connecticut, a year later. Its first industry was a dam and sawmill at the rapids of the Rubicon River, put up by German settlers, and the river still runs through the middle of town.

The twentieth century gave Hartford its identity. From 1906 to 1931 the Kissel company built automobiles here, and the Wisconsin Automotive Museum in town keeps a collection of them. In 1932 Broan moved to Hartford, and Broan-NuTone is still headquartered here. Factories like those meant steady work, and steady work meant houses: rows of solid, modest homes within reach of downtown, built and then improved bit by bit by the families who lived in them.

Those houses make up much of what we see in Hartford. They are well built and rarely in crisis, but they are old enough that a buyer's inspection finds a predictable list: a basement wall that seeps in March, wiring with a few too many generations in it, original windows, a bathroom from the 1960s, and lead-based paint somewhere under the newer coats. Around the edges of town, newer subdivisions bring a different kind of sale, one that is about timing rather than repairs.

We buy both, and when a newer, well-kept house would plainly net you more on the open market, we say so first.

Pike Lake, the farms west of town, and our distance

Just east of Hartford, the Pike Lake Unit of the Kettle Moraine State Forest surrounds a spring-fed lake of more than five hundred acres, and a bike trail maintained by the city runs from the forest into town. Out past it, and to the west and north toward Dodge County, the land is farms and country houses on private wells and septic systems. Those come with outbuildings, acreage and sometimes a lifetime of equipment, and they are often hard to sell to a buyer who needs a mortgage.

We buy them with everything on them, and we do not need the barn emptied or the septic upgraded first. If the property came to you through an estate, the inherited property page covers the steps.

We are based in Appleton, so a Hartford visit is a planned trip, usually set a few days ahead and always made by Dan or Diana in person. We also buy in West Bend to the northeast, Richfield to the southeast, Oconomowoc to the southwest, and in Dodge County at Juneau and Beaver Dam. The Washington County page lists the rest.