We Buy Houses in Lewis County, TN
We pay cash for houses across Lewis County, including Hohenwald and the towns around it. Steadfast Home Buyers is a veteran-owned, family-run company based in Jackson, accredited by the Better Business Bureau with an A+ rating. Matt has worked in real estate since 2017, across more than 400 transactions. Any condition, no repairs, no agent commission and no fees on your side. Tell us the address and you will have a real number, usually within 24 hours.
Get a cash offer on your Lewis County property
1. Send the address
The address and a line on the condition. Nothing cleared, nothing mended, no appointment to keep.
2. A figure, usually the same day
Priced as it stands, free and with nothing owed. In Lewis County we will tell you to list it more often than not.
3. Choose your closing date
Seven days where the title is clean, fourteen to twenty-one more typically. A title company closes it, so an owner elsewhere need not travel.
The Highest Ownership Rate of Any County We Buy In, Just Ahead of Fayette, and it argues against us
81.9% of Lewis County homes are owned by the people living in them, the highest share of any county we work in though only just, with Fayette County at 81.4% and Dickson at 80.3% close behind, against about 66.9% across Tennessee. The county has also grown 7.2% since 2020. The median county house is worth $173,400, median county household income is $56,285, poverty is 14.1% and 21.7% of county residents are over 65. (US Census Bureau QuickFacts, 2025 population estimates and American Community Survey 2020 to 2024.)
Read those together and the conclusion is uncomfortable for a cash buyer. Four in five homes owner-occupied, a growing population and incomes that support the prices means there is plenty of local buyers who can get a conventional mortgage. So a Lewis County house that can be shown should be listed, and an agent will beat our number. We would rather say that here than take the call.
The Lewis County houses that still come to us
A healthy market cannot help a house that is unable to enter it. These are the ones that reach us.
- A house no lender will touch. Structural movement, fire, water, or a failed septic field. Growth does not change a lender’s answer.
- Acreage and outbuildings. With only 5,387 county households spread across a largely rural county, a good share of what we see is land with a house on it rather than the reverse, and standard mortgages rarely stretch to that.
- An estate where nobody local is in charge. 90.2% of county residents were in the same house a year earlier, so the houses that come free have been held for decades and are usually full.
- A deadline set by somebody else. A probate court or a job start date does not wait for the right buyer to appear.
One practical thing worth knowing
Hohenwald is the county seat, so your deed, your plat and your tax records are recorded there. And with so few households in the county, a single unusual sale moves the whole comparable set: an appraiser has a thin pool to work from, and one low sale nearby can undo a fairly agreed price. Ask whoever prices your house which sales they used and how recent they are. We also buy in Hohenwald and across Hickman County next door.
Three ways to sell a house in Lewis County
Three honest routes, and in a county where four in five homes are owner-occupied we are rarely the best of them. This is the comparison as we would give it on the phone.
| Sell to us | List with an agent | Sell it yourself | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Commission | None | 5 to 6 percent, about $9,500 at the county median of $173,400 | None, though you are judging the price alone |
| Repairs | None. Acreage, a barn, a well and a septic field are all fine as found | Whatever an inspection raises, and owner-occupier buyers here ask for it | Yours to organize and pay for |
| Showings | We come once and that is the only visit | However many it takes, and there is plenty of local buyers here | Every one is yours to arrange |
| Closing costs | Ours, including the $642 state transfer tax on a median sale | Customarily split with the buyer | Yours to settle |
| Time to close | 7 to 21 days, on the date you name | Often quick in this county, because ownership is high and buyers are waiting | However long your own search takes |
| Can it fall through | There is no mortgage, so nothing can collapse | Financing, and with few recent sales the valuation is the weak point | The same risks, with the paperwork on you |
| What you get | Under retail. With ownership this high you are giving up real money and we will say so | Almost certainly the most, on a house that can be shown | The most of the three, if nothing goes wrong |
What people say about working with us
Paperwork and costs in Lewis County
Tennessee charges a realty transfer tax of $0.37 for every $100 of the sale price. At the county median of $173,400 that is about $642. We pay the closing costs and that tax leaves our side of the table.
Deeds record with the Lewis County Register of Deeds in Hohenwald, the county seat. Probate runs through the Clerk and Master there. With 5,387 households in the county, title work is quick and a title company usually knows the parcel.
Questions people in Lewis County ask us
Four in five houses here are owned. Does that help me or not?
It helps you and it argues against us. 81.9% of Lewis County homes are owned, the highest share of any county we work in though only just, with Fayette at 81.4% and Dickson at 80.3% close behind. That means a genuine line of local buyers who can get a mortgage. A sound house should be listed.
It is a house on land with outbuildings. Will a bank lend on it?
Usually not, and that is the commonest reason a Lewis County sale never happens at all. Acreage, a barn, a well and a septic field fall outside a standard mortgage. We are not borrowing, so none of it stops us.
The county is growing. Should I wait?
Probably, if the house can be shown. Lewis County is up 7.2% since 2020 and that works in your favor. We are for houses that cannot go on the market, and for dates set by a court rather than by you.
My father lived in it for thirty years and it is full.
Leave everything. 21.7% of the county is over 65 and 90.2% of residents were in the same house a year earlier, so a long-held full house is the normal shape of what we buy here.
A sale fell through on the valuation. Why?
Because with only 5,387 households there are few recent comparable sales, so an appraiser is working from thin evidence and one low sale nearby can undo an agreed price. We use no appraiser.
What is the downside of selling to you?
The price, plainly. No commission, no fees, no repairs, no cleaning and no closing costs, and in return we buy under retail. In a county with ownership this high that is a real cost and you should weigh it.
Where we are
Steadfast Home Buyers, 86E N Star Dr, Jackson, TN 38305, about a hundred and ten miles west of Hohenwald. Matt has been buying houses in Tennessee since 2017, the Better Business Bureau rates the business A+, and we have closed more than 400 transactions. The number is 731-318-5196, seven days a week.
Get a cash offer on your Lewis County property
Occupied, empty, tenanted, in good order or falling apart. Tell us the address and what is going on, and we will come back with a real number.
We also buy in Hohenwald.