How Do We Buy Houses In Milwaukee Wisconsin?
Selling your house doesn’t have to be stressful. We’ve simplified selling your house in Milwaukee into three easy steps. Since we buy houses with cash, there is no need for banks, appraisals, or repairs. We can make you a fair offer on your property in 24 hours or less.
Get Cash For Your House In 3 Simple Steps
Step 1
Call or request an offer online, it’s fast and easy
We work with you to learn more about your property and set an appointment to meet with you or receive pictures of your property.
Step 2
Meet with us at your home or send us pictures
We will walk the property with you. Once we view the property or pictures that you send us, we present you with a fair cash offer.
Step 3
Choose your closing date and move on your schedule
We can close on your schedule, whether you need a fast or slow closing. Sell your house on your schedule.
Seller reviews
We work with homeowners to sell on their house on their terms.
It was just awesome when you came into to talk to me. You just took a big load off of my chest. You made things so much easier for me because I was scared. My husband just passed away and I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t know how to do it. You guys made it so much easier for me. You all were just awesome. I would give you an A+ for everything.
Maria S. 
Verified Review
MILWAUKEE, WI
Had a completely positive experience with these gentlemen. From my first inquiry call, i was treated with respect and my inquiries were taken seriously and professionally. Kurt and Chris were extremely patient and answered every question and concern I threw at them until I had an understanding and was comfortable with the transaction. From first call to closing was about 40-45 days (Christmas and New Years fell in the time frame). Honest, timely, professional and approachable. I highly recommend and would absolutely do business with Cream City Home Buyer again!
Pamela Z. Verified Review
MILWAUKEE, WI
I had the great pleasure of getting to know Kurt Walker, one of the owners of Cream City Homebuyers and have only good things to say about my experience. He was professional and kind and I have the utmost confidence in both him and his team. If you are looking for a high integrity organization, then you found them in Cream City Homebuyers.
Garth K. Verified Review
MILWAUKEE, WI
My grandmother passed away last year and left me her house in Wisconsin as inheritance. Since I had no plans of moving to Wisconsin, I looked into my options. Since I didn’t want to run the risk of renting the home to an unreliable or irresponsible tenant, I decided to sell the house. And the quickest way to sell it was to these cash buyers. They were able to give me a fair cash offer for the house and I accepted. This was a smooth transition. Thank you for making things simplistic! I’d recommend Cream City Home Buyers for your home selling needs.
Althea Q. Verified Review
MILWAUKEE, WI
I was able to effortlessly sell my home to Cream City Homebuyers without having to wait an extended period of time like I would of had to going through a realtor. Going through them was my quickest option and I don’t regret my decision. They handled the buying process like true professionals.
Cecil E. Verified Review
MILWAUKEE, WI
And that’s how to sell a house in Milwaukee for cash 😉
Okay, that all looks easy, but it still doesn’t really answer anything, right?!
We understand that many of the people we deal with have little to no real estate experience. Selling a house can seem like a very big deal if you only do it once or twice in your entire life, and because sellers are normally unfamiliar with the process it can put them in a vulnerable position.
At Cream City Home Buyers it is our personal and professional values that we always try to be as honest and transparent as possible. We want you to know that you’re dealing with a straight shooter when you reach out to us – because real estate is very personal and the stakes are very high. It’s important that you know the company you’re dealing with is honest. You can read about Who We Are Here about Our Mission Here.
Okay, Cream City, sure, we like you guys, but what we really want to know is how low is a cash offer going to be?
Good question, and, in all honesty, it will probably be lower than you expect. It almost always is, and not because we write lowball offers – we don’t! – but because sellers don’t understand the costs associated with this business and never account for any of them.
I’ll walk you through our formula and then give you an example so you understand the process better and can make a truly informed decision. If you’re interested, follow this link to a lengthy blog post I wrote on All the Pros and Cons of Selling for Cash. After that, you should also understand how to sell a house for cash.
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Before I give you our formula, I want to run through a quick, non real estate analogy:
Let’s say you needed to go and buy a used car. A dealer has two cars available:
- One costs $2,000 but also needs $1,500 worth of work. Once it’s fixed up it would be worth about $3,500.
- The other car is pretty similar and he’s asking $3,500.
Which would you buy? Of course the answer is obvious. There’s simply no reason to do the extra work on the car, much less the possibility of making any money doing it!
Selling a house for cash is very, very similar! The numbers are just bigger!
Now, let’s look at this formula, here it is:
ARV – Repair Costs – Selling Costs – Holding Costs – Profit = Our Offer
As I mentioned before, our Offers are based on the Market Value of the home, and not the seller’s state of desperation. What I mean by market value is what the home will be worth after we’ve done all the repairs and made it all pretty, we call this the After Repair Value, or ARV.
And the other terms:
Repair Cost: Simply enough, the cost of performing all the necessary repairs to bring the property up to Market Value (what the neighbor’s houses are selling for).
Selling Costs: Lucky for you, when you sell to us you don’t pay any real estate commissions or closing costs, but when we fix it up and then turn around and sell it again, WE DO! 8-10% of sales price is normally accurate here, depending on the value of the home.
Profit: Our minimum profit. Yes, we are running a business here, and hopefully a profitable one. This number will vary depending on the amount of risk, the total project cost, and holding time involved, and a number of other factors. As a general rule, we aim to make $20,000 per deal. If you think that’s a high number, try walking in my shoes for a few days! 😉
AS-IS Value: This is the discounted value of the property, or what you might be able to get for it if you list with a Realtor and sell to a traditional buyer on the MLS. This is in no way certain (what is?) but it’s a number that tries to take into account updates needed on a property and to price it accordingly.
Finally, an example…
Here is an actual house we bought last year – we kept this one and it’s now rented out to a nice family:
This home today is probably worth somewhere between 155 and 165k (at least I hope!), so let’s say the market value is $160,000.
But, when we bought it, the landlord had just evicted the tenant, so it was empty AND trashed, AND needed some larger ticket items that he had been putting off for a very long time.
The property needed about $45,000 in repairs.
So, what every seller is hoping, is that if it’s worth 160k and needs 45k in repairs, then we’ll pay 115k… Remember the car? Unfortunately, that just isn’t discounted enough, and we simply can’t run a business by paying that much for a house.
We paid $77,500 for that house, and here’s what that looks like:
$160,000 (ARV) – $45,000 (Repair Cost) – $10,000 (The cost we’d incur if we sold) – $7,500 (Holding Costs until Refinanced) – $20,000 (Profit ~ Or our ‘Equity Position’) = $77,500
And that particular house ended up being a win-win for everyone. We bought a house we believe is a good one to hold onto long term, and the seller got rid of all the headaches!
A Few Things to Remember:
- We buy houses ‘AS-IS.’ You won’t have to fix or clean anything up, and we’ll never come back to you later.
- We pay cash. If you have sold any houses before you’ll likely realize that this makes the entire process smoother, easier, and most of all, possible, where bank financing is not an option.
- We close fast and you pick the date.
- We never lowball, and always offer as much as we possibly can and still run a business.
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Yes, Selling Your House For Cash Can Be A Quick And Simple Process
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