Outagamie County · Buying in Wisconsin since 2010
Sell my house fast in Kimberly, Wisconsin.
Most Kimberly houses we buy have been in one family for a long time and are being sold by someone who now lives elsewhere. We can buy one with the furniture, the basement workshop and forty years of storage still inside, and you can handle nearly all of it from wherever you live.
- No fees, commissions or repairs
- Close in as little as 7 days
- Written cash offer in 24 hours
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The market here
What Kimberly housing is actually like
The housing stock
Kimberly is a former mill village of tight workforce housing, much of it still on its original plumbing and wiring. The lots are small, the houses are close together, and the streets were laid out for people who walked to work. Since the mill closed, the village has stayed residential and stable, which means the housing has aged in place rather than being redeveloped.
Why Kimberly sellers call us
A lot of Kimberly houses have been in the same family for two or three generations. When they finally sell, they are usually being sold by somebody who inherited them and does not live locally.
Neighborhoods and areas we buy in
- Village centre
- Sunset Park
- Riverside
- Maes Avenue
Kimberly after the paper mill
For most of its history Kimberly was a mill village in the plainest sense. The community was first known as The Cedars and was later renamed for John A. Kimberly, one of the founders of the paper company, and the mill on the Fox River was the reason the streets of small houses around it exist. When NewPage shut the mill in 2008, about 570 people lost their jobs, and the village spent the following years dealing with what a large closed industrial site does to a small place.
The village eventually bought the roughly 91-acre riverfront property itself, closing the purchase at the start of 2017, and has been redeveloping it since as The Cedars, with new housing, trails and public space along the water. Even the hydroelectric plant at the old mill has a new owner: Kaukauna Utilities bought it from NewPage in 2010.
What does that mean if you are selling an older house a few blocks from the river? Mostly that a buyer in Kimberly now has a real choice. Someone who wants new construction, an open floor plan and no maintenance for years can buy exactly that at the riverfront. The older houses in the village compete for a different buyer: one who wants a lower price and is prepared to update. That buyer usually needs a mortgage, and their lender will look hard at the condition of anything built before the 1960s.
We are the alternative to waiting for that buyer. We do not need the house to compete with a new build; we price it for what it is, an older Kimberly house that someone will update, and we pay for it in cash on a date you choose. If you are not sure which route suits you, our listing versus cash comparison lays out the trade-offs plainly.
Clearing out a house that held three generations
When a Kimberly house finally changes hands after decades in one family, the hardest part is rarely the sale. It is the contents. Basements and garages here tend to hold a remarkable amount: tools from a grandfather who worked at the mill, canning jars, holiday decorations going back fifty years, paperwork in shoeboxes, furniture nobody has sat on since the eighties. For an heir living in another state, emptying all of that properly can take weeks of vacation time.
Here is what we suggest instead. Go through the house once, ideally with family, and take what matters: photographs, letters, jewelry, important documents, anything with a story attached and anything someone will genuinely use. If you are short of time, we can let you in again after the offer is signed so you are not rushed. Then leave everything else exactly where it is.
After closing, clearing the house is our job and our expense. We sort what can be donated, what can be recycled and what has to go to the dump, and we do it after you have your money. You do not hire a dumpster, book an estate sale company or ask a neighbor to watch the house while it is emptied.
A practical tip: before anything leaves, check the obvious hiding places for papers. Old deeds, stock certificates, savings bonds and life insurance policies turn up in desk drawers, freezers and the backs of closets more often than you would think. If you would like a second set of eyes on that, tell us and we will set aside anything that looks like a document. For more on the estate side, read selling an inherited house in Wisconsin.
Old pipes, old drains and what we allow for them
The houses that surround the old mill site were mostly built for working families between the early 1900s and the 1950s, and their plumbing tells that story. You will commonly find galvanized steel supply lines that have narrowed inside with rust, so the upstairs shower runs weak; a cast-iron drain stack that has cracked or rusted at the joints; and a clay sewer lateral running out to the street main that may be broken or full of roots.
Each of these behaves differently in a sale. Low water pressure is something a buyer notices on the first showing. The drain stack is noted by the inspector. The sewer lateral often goes unexamined until a buyer pays for a camera inspection, and then it turns into a repair request worth thousands. Wiring from the same era raises similar questions with insurers, whether it is the original cloth-covered cable or a mix of old and newer circuits added over the years.
When we visit a Kimberly house we look at all of it: the supply lines where they enter the basement, the stack, the floor drain, the water heater, the panel and the visible wiring. We estimate replacing what needs it, and the written offer shows that estimate separately from everything else. You can show it to a plumber if you want to check us.
You do not need to fix any of it, or even know for sure what condition it is in. If something has already been replaced, such as a new main line or a repiped bathroom, let us know, because it lowers our cost and therefore raises the offer. Our guide to selling as-is explains how a sale without repairs works from start to finish.
Selling a Kimberly house without coming back to Wisconsin
Because so many of the owners we deal with in Kimberly live away from the Fox Valley, we have made the whole process work at a distance. Here is what that looks like in practice.
- A neighbor, relative or friend with a key lets us in for the walk-through, or we arrange access with a lockbox. You can join by phone or video call if you like.
- The written offer arrives by email the next day. We go through it with you by phone, line by line, and answer whatever you ask.
- Once you sign, a Wisconsin title company opens the file, orders the title search and handles any mortgage payoff, taxes and estate paperwork.
- Closing documents are sent to you to sign in front of a notary wherever you live. Funds are wired to you or to the estate account.
Nothing about the price or the terms changes because you are far away. If you would rather come back for the closing, you are welcome to; we just do not make it necessary.
We also buy in the villages next door, so if the property turns out to be just over the line in Little Chute or Combined Locks, or across the river in Harrison or Darboy, it is the same process. Appleton and Kaukauna are just as close.
What we take on
The Kimberly property types we buy
Former mill-worker houses with original wiring and plumbing
Property that has been in one family for generations
Small lots close together near the old mill site
Estates with a house full of belongings
Houses a lender has already refused
Free, no obligation
What is your Kimberly house worth to us?
Send the Kimberly address, tell us who has the key, and we will arrange the walk-through even if you cannot be there. The offer comes in writing the next day, with the cleanout already counted as our cost.
Rather talk to someone? Call or text (920) 259-4326 — a real person answers.
Kimberly sellers ask us
We inherited a house in Kimberly and none of us live nearby. What happens now?
The wiring and plumbing have never been updated. Is that going to be a problem?
Do you also buy in Little Chute and the rest of the Fox Cities?
Can we take a few things after we have signed the offer?
Does living near the old mill site hurt what our house is worth?
Free guides for Kimberly sellers
Local resources
Local resources for selling in Kimberly
Kimberly property taxes are paid at the Kimberly Municipal Complex, 515 W. Kimberly Avenue, and the village's assessor works from an office in Appleton; a sale itself is recorded with Outagamie County.
- Fox River shoreland and floodplain zoning
- Wisconsin DNR — floodplain management
- Kimberly's own clerk and assessor
- FEMA Flood Map Service Center
Next steps
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