Kenosha County · Buying in Wisconsin since 2010
Sell my house fast in Somers, Wisconsin.
Somers is half new village, half old township, with a university in the middle. Whether you own a rental near Parkside, a farmhouse on one of the old roads, or a newer house you need to leave by a certain date, we will walk through it with you and give you a written cash offer.
- Written cash offer in 24 hours
- No fees, commissions or repairs
- Close in as little as 7 days
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The market here
What Somers housing is actually like
The housing stock
Somers sits north of Kenosha around UW-Parkside, mixing older housing along the original roads with newer development and a student rental market near the university. It became a village relatively recently and still reads as part village, part township.
Why Somers sellers call us
Student rentals and long-held family property are the two Somers calls we take most often.
Neighborhoods and areas we buy in
- Village centre
- Highway 31 corridor
- University area
One name, two municipalities
Somers is easy to misunderstand from a map. For most of its history it was a single township, first called Pike when it was created in 1843 and renamed Somers in 1851. In April 2015 voters approved turning the part of the township that held most of its property value into a village, by 676 to 526, and the Village of Somers was incorporated later that month. The rest stayed the Town of Somers, and a portion of it is set to pass to the City of Kenosha by 2035 under an older boundary agreement.
That history matters when you sell, because the paperwork follows the line. Village parcels were given new tax numbers from 2016. Town parcels are zoned by Kenosha County rather than the village, so questions about shoreland, floodplain or what may be built go to the county's planning office.
None of this is difficult, but it confuses buyers who are new to the area. We check which side of the line a property is on before we visit, so the written offer reflects the right rules from the start.
If you are not sure yourself, your most recent tax bill names the municipality the parcel belongs to. Owners on the town side whose land lies in the area due to pass to Kenosha should mention that when they call. It does not stop a sale, but it is the sort of detail a buyer's lawyer will ask about, and it is better to have the answer ready than to discover it during the title search.
Rentals near UW-Parkside
UW-Parkside sits inside the village. The campus broke ground in 1967 and took its first students in the fall of 1969, and over the decades a rental market has grown up around it: single-family houses let by the room, duplexes, and homes bought for a son or daughter and kept as rentals after they graduated.
Those properties have their own selling problems. Showing a house full of students means notice, schedules and rooms that are not at their best. A tenant who has stopped paying, or a lease that runs to the end of the academic year, makes a buyer hesitate. And a house that has been let by the room for years usually shows wear that an owner-occupant buyer will not want to take on.
Students can stay put when we buy: their leases become ours at closing, with the deposits credited across, so nobody has to be moved out for the sale to go ahead. If you would rather close in summer when the house is empty, we can set the date around the academic calendar. Our guide on selling a rental with tenants and the tired landlord page cover the details.
Farmhouses and older homes on the original roads
Outside the newer subdivisions, and especially in the town, Somers still has the farmhouses and older homes that predate the university by generations. They sit along the original section roads, often with a detached garage or a barn, and frequently on a private well and septic system.
When one of those comes up for sale it is usually because a long-time owner has passed away or gone into care, and the family is trying to decide what to do from somewhere else. The house is often sound but dated, and the septic or well is the first thing a lender's inspector will question. Kenosha County has tracked private septic systems and their maintenance since 1980, so the county's records may already show when yours was last serviced.
We buy these homes as they are, outbuildings and all. If the septic needs replacing, we include the cost in our figure and handle it after closing. If the house is full, leave what the family does not want. How a sale fits around probate is on our inherited property page.
Newer village houses and a move on a deadline
Not every Somers house is a student rental or an old farmhouse. The village has added a good deal of newer housing, and many of those owners are in a very different position: the house is in good repair, but life has changed. A job has moved to another state. A marriage has ended. Parents need to move closer to their children. The house could sell on the open market, but the owner needs to be gone by a particular date.
That is a fair situation in which to ask whether a cash sale makes sense, and we will give you an honest answer. If you have several months and the house shows well, listing may bring you a higher price. If you need certainty, the arithmetic changes. Two mortgages for even a few months, a closing that slips because a buyer's loan is late, or a deal that collapses after you have signed a lease elsewhere can each cost more than the difference between our figure and a hopeful list price.
Sell to us and the closing day is written into the agreement. You choose it, and we lodge $5,000 in escrow as our On-Time Guarantee that it will happen. If we do not close on time, the money goes to you. If your plans move, the date can move later as well as earlier.
The relocating page describes how other owners have handled selling ahead of a move, and our article comparing a cash offer with listing sets out the costs of each route side by side.
Working with us from Appleton
We have bought Wisconsin houses since 2010, the two of us, Dan and Diana Ahlborn, working out of Appleton. Somers is a long drive for us and we would not pretend to know it street by street. We do see each property in person, and we send a written number the day after the visit with our reasoning laid out.
A Wisconsin title company runs the closing and records the new deed with Kenosha County. No commission, fees or repair list come into it, and the closing date is yours.
Next door we also buy in Kenosha and Pleasant Prairie, and to the north in Mount Pleasant and Racine.
What we take on
The Somers property types we buy
Near-campus rentals around UW-Parkside
Older housing along the original roads
Newer village development
Well and septic properties toward the townships
Long-held family property
Free, no obligation
What is your Somers house worth to us?
Tell us whether the Somers property is in the village or the town, whether students or other tenants live there, and when you would like to close. We will set up a visit and follow it with the figure in writing.
Rather talk to someone? Call or text (920) 259-4326 — a real person answers.
Somers sellers ask us
Can you buy a rental near UW-Parkside with students living in it?
Our house is in the Town of Somers, not the village. Does that matter to you?
Do you buy farmhouses on private wells out toward the town?
We live out of state and the house belonged to our parents. Can this be done remotely?
Our newer Somers house is in good shape. Is a cash sale still worth considering?
Free guides for Somers sellers
Local resources
Local resources for selling in Somers
The Village and the Town of Somers share one hall and one staff, including the clerk-treasurer and building inspector, so whichever side of the line your house is on, the same office answers questions about taxes and permits.
- Wisconsin Circuit Court Access
- FEMA Flood Map Service Center
- Wisconsin DNR — floodplain management
- Selling from Illinois
- Somers's own clerk and assessor
Next steps
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