We are the buyer, not a lead broker
Most websites that look like this one are not run by the person buying your house. They are lead pages. You fill in a form, your details get sold to a list of investors, and you spend the next week fielding calls from people who have never seen the property and may never buy anything. That is the business model, and it is worth knowing before you type your address into any of them.
We are the buyer. When you send us a property, it comes to us, we look at it ourselves, and the offer we make is one we intend to close on with our own funds. There is no auction of your phone number happening behind the scenes.
Nikita Levitan
Founder, Nikita Buys Houses
Every offer on this site comes from a real person who has looked at the property. If you want to speak to whoever is buying your house, that is who answers.
Why we buy houses this way
There is a category of house that the ordinary market handles badly. A property that needs a roof and a furnace, one with a tenant who stopped paying eight months ago, one full of forty years of a parent's belongings, one where the owner needs to be in another state by the end of the month. A traditional listing assumes a house that can be cleaned, photographed, shown, and financed by a buyer's bank. When any of those assumptions breaks, the conventional process does not just get slower, it stops working.
That is the gap we operate in. We take on the repairs, the cleanout, the tenant situation, and the timeline risk, and we accept the possibility that we have underestimated all three. That risk is what the discount to retail pays for. It is a real trade, not a trick.
What we will tell you that others will not
If your house is in decent shape, in a market that is moving, and you are not up against a hard deadline, listing it with a good agent will almost certainly net you more money than we will offer. We say this on every page of this site because it is true, and because a seller who understands the trade-off is a better person to do business with than one who feels cornered into it.
We would rather lose a deal to an honest comparison than close one that somebody regrets. Our entire business depends on the second phone call, the referral, and the neighbour who was told we were straight with them.
How we handle your information
What you send us stays with us. We do not sell it, trade it, or pass it to a network of other buyers. If you decide against selling, or against selling to us, you can tell us to stop contacting you and we will. Once.
Who you are dealing with
Nikita Levitan and Sabrina Gao. We own Half + Half LLC together, and between us we are the people who look at your house, work out the number, and sign the cheque. There is no call centre and no acquisitions department between you and a decision.
What we are not
- We are not real estate agents or brokers. We do not list houses and we do not represent you.
- We are not attorneys or accountants. Anything on this site about probate, foreclosure, or taxes is general information, and the rules differ by state.
- We are not a marketplace that forwards your details to whoever pays the most for them.
Ask us what we would pay
It takes about two minutes, there is no obligation, and there is never a fee. If we are not the right answer for your situation, we will tell you that too.