We buy land for cash across East Tennessee

Why land is harder to sell than a house — and why we're easy

Land does not sell the way houses do. Banks rarely lend on raw ground without a big down payment, agents earn a small commission on a small sale so it drifts to the bottom of the pile, and a listing on vacant acreage in Grainger County can sit for a year with three showings. Meanwhile the tax bill comes every October whether anyone looked at it or not.

We are not borrowing money to buy your parcel, so there is no appraisal, no lender conditions, no financing contingency, and nothing to fall through. That is the entire reason we can close in a week or two on ground that has been listed for eighteen months.

What we look at when we price a parcel

Recent comparable parcel sales in the same county and along the same road corridor — not a state average. Then acreage and shape, road frontage, legal and physical access, whether water and electric are at the road, slope and buildable area, floodplain, timber value, and soil suitability for a septic system. On farmland we look at greenbelt status and possible rollback taxes, and on hunting tracts we look at cover, water, and neighboring use.

Then we subtract carrying costs and our margin and give you the number in writing, itemized.

Situations we handle every month

Inherited ground with four heirs and no probate ever filed. A parcel with eleven years of delinquent taxes and a sale date coming. A lot bought at a Sevier County land promotion in the eighties that turns out to sit on a fifty-percent grade. An out-of-state owner who inherited acreage in Union County and has never seen it. We have closed all of those.