We Buy Houses in Shelby County, TN
We pay cash for houses across Shelby County, in Memphis, Bartlett, Germantown, Collierville, Millington, Arlington and Lakeland. We are Steadfast Home Buyers, a family company out of Jackson run by a veteran, rated A+ by the Better Business Bureau, with more than 400 deals behind us since 2017. Condition is never the issue, you pay no agent and no fee, and we meet the closing costs ourselves. Send the address and you will have a figure, usually the same day.
Sell your house fast in Shelby County
1. Point us at the house
An address is enough, plus whatever you want to say about its condition. Nothing to prepare beforehand.
2. We come back with a figure
Usually the same day, worked out on the house as we find it. Hearing it costs you nothing and commits you to nothing.
3. Close when it suits you
Most people here take two or three weeks. Seven days is achievable, and waiting several months is equally fine.
Nearly half of Shelby County rents, and the county is shrinking
Shelby County is one of eight counties we buy in that are losing people, and by far the largest. Its population fell 2.1% between 2020 and 2025 while the state grew 5.8% and the county next door to the east grew 8.0%. And it rents more of its housing than anywhere near it: only 54.1% of occupied homes here are owned, against 66.9% across Tennessee. That leaves about 166,000 rented households out of 362,741. (US Census Bureau QuickFacts, 2025 population estimates and American Community Survey 2020 to 2024.)
Those two facts together produce the sellers we meet here. A county with that many rentals has that many landlords, and a county losing people has houses nobody moved into.
- A landlord who has had enough. One property or fifteen. We buy with the tenant still living there, so there is no notice to serve and no empty months between.
- A house left empty after a death. Often owned between family, often with nobody left in Memphis to deal with it.
- A house a lender will not touch. Roof, wiring, foundation, damp, fire damage. Those stop an ordinary sale and they do not stop us.
- An out-of-state owner. Somebody who bought here as an investment, never saw it, and now wants out.
- A move somebody else’s timetable decided. A job, a health change, or a closing date you did not pick.
Three ways to sell a house in Shelby County
| Sell to us | Go to market | Handle it yourself | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What the agent takes | Nothing, there is no agent | About 5 to 6 percent of the price | Nothing |
| Getting it ready | Nothing at all | Repairs reopened after the inspection | Entirely on you |
| People through the door | Nobody | Open houses until it goes | You do the showing |
| Fees at the table | We pay them | Divided between buyer and seller | You pay them |
| Speed | Two to three weeks, seven days if pressed | Dictated by the buyer’s lender | Nobody can say |
| Risk of it dying | None, the money is already there | Financing falls through more than anything else | Just as exposed |
| The check at the end | Below retail, stated plainly up front | The biggest, on a sound house given time | Bigger still, when nothing goes wrong |
Straight about it, and Shelby needs saying more plainly than most: this county has more cash buyers in it than anywhere else in Tennessee, and several are larger than we are. A sound house in a suburb with months to spare will very often net you more through an agent. That is not a reason to sell to us. It is a reason the ordinary route works here when the house and the timing allow it. Where we win is condition, an empty house costing you every month, a tenant you want out from under, or a date somebody else set.
What people say about working with us
Paperwork and costs in Shelby County
- Where deeds are recorded. The Shelby County Register of Deeds, Willie F. Brooks Jr., 1075 Mullins Station Road, Building W3, Suite W165, Memphis, TN 38134, (901) 222-8100. The records stay in the county.
- What the state takes on the transfer. Tennessee charges 37 cents for every $100 of the price, which is the same in Memphis as it is anywhere else in the state. A $250,000 sale carries $925 of it. We put that in the figure at the start so it is not something you meet on the day.
- When the house came to you after a death. Probate runs through the court where the property stands, so a Shelby County house is dealt with in Memphis. We buy at whatever stage that has reached, and nobody has to empty the place first.
Where are we located?
We are based at 86E N Star Dr, Jackson, TN 38305, about an hour and a half east of Memphis, and we buy right across West Tennessee. Somebody is reachable 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and closing goes through a title company so an owner living out of state never has to travel.
Questions people in Shelby County ask us
I own rentals in Shelby County and I want out. Will you buy with tenants in place?
Yes, and it is the single most common call we take from this county. You do not have to give notice, start an eviction or wait a lease out. We take the tenancy as it stands, and the rent you are owed and the state of the place are priced in at the start rather than argued over later. If you have several, tell us about all of them at once.
The house has been empty since my mother died and I live out of state.
You do not have to come to Memphis. Signing goes through a title company and can be done from wherever you are, and we look at the house ourselves so nobody has to meet us there. Leave the contents where they are. Estates are handled by Shelby County’s court, and we work around whatever stage probate has reached.
My house is in Germantown and it is in good shape. Are you the right call?
Probably not first, and we would rather say so. A sound house in Germantown, Collierville or Lakeland with a few months to spare will normally net more on the open market. Call us when the timing is the problem rather than the house: a job that moved, a date you cannot control, or two payments you are carrying.
There are a lot of cash buyers in Memphis. What makes you different?
Honestly, size is not it. Memphis has more cash buyers than anywhere else in the state and several of them are bigger than us. What we will do is look at the house rather than price it from a screen, tell you when listing beats selling to us, and give you a number that does not move after somebody walks through.
The house needs work a bank will not lend against.
Then an ordinary sale is the hard route, not the cheap one. Roof, wiring, foundation, damp or fire damage all stop a buyer getting a mortgage, however much they want the house. We are not borrowing, so there is no appraisal and no inspection to fail, and the condition is in the number from the start.
How fast can this happen in Shelby County?
Two to three weeks is normal, and one week is possible on a clean title because nothing on our side waits on a bank or a valuation. Title work in a county this size can occasionally add a few days. If you need longer, for a move or an unfinished estate, we set the date around you.
We also buy in these Shelby County towns
Memphis, Bartlett, Germantown, Collierville, Millington, Arlington and Lakeland each have a page of their own.
Get a cash offer on your Shelby County property
A property you have stopped wanting to manage, one sitting empty between tenants, one left to you, or one carrying more work than it is worth. Give us the address and tell us the position you are in. You will get a direct answer on whether it is ours to buy and what the figure would be, free, with nothing committed, and we will tell you plainly if the open market would serve you better.