We Buy Houses in Tipton County, TN
We pay cash for houses right across Tipton County, in Covington, Munford, Atoka, Brighton, Drummonds, Mason, Gilt Edge, Garland and Burlison. Steadfast Home Buyers is a veteran-owned, family-run company based in Jackson, accredited by the Better Business Bureau at A+, and Matt has been in real estate since 2017 across more than 400 transactions. Nothing needs fixing, cleaning or clearing first, and there is no commission and no fee on your side. Send us the address and you will have a real number, usually inside 24 hours.
Sell your house fast in Tipton County
1. Give us the address
And a sentence about what state it is in. No photographs, no tidying, nobody coming to look round at a weekend.
2. A number back inside 24 hours
Priced on the house as it stands today. It costs nothing to hear it and you owe nothing if you say no.
3. You name the closing day
Two to three weeks is usual here. One week can be done on a clean title, and a later date is just as easy.
Tipton County is a county of owners, and they do not move
Most places near Memphis rent a good share of their housing. Tipton does not. 76.3% of occupied homes here are owned rather than rented, against 66.9% across Tennessee, and 91.4% of people were living in the same house a year earlier. The population has barely shifted in fifteen years, 61,081 in 2010 and 62,287 in 2025, while the state grew. And houses cost less here than in Tennessee as a whole: a median of $240,600 against $286,700. (US Census Bureau QuickFacts, 2025 population estimates and American Community Survey 2020 to 2024.)
Put those together and you get a particular kind of seller, and they are most of who calls us from this county.
- A house one family has had for thirty or forty years. Sound enough to live in, never updated, and now owned by somebody in their seventies or by their children. 18.1% of the county is over 65.
- The Memphis commute that stopped being worth it. The average drive to work from Tipton County is 32.9 minutes, and that is the whole reason a lot of these houses were bought. When the job moves or the driving stops paying, the house is fine and the location no longer is.
- A house standing empty. The county has 25,033 housing units and 22,660 households, so roughly 2,400 are nobody home. Empty costs money every month whether or not anybody is looking at it.
- Something a lender will not lend on. Roof, wiring, foundation, septic, or an addition that never had a permit. That stops an ordinary sale and it does not stop us.
A word about Brighton
Brighton sits between Atoka and Covington on the US-51 corridor and is one of the places people moved to for the drive into Memphis. If you are selling in Brighton, this is your page, and the answer is the same as anywhere else in the county: we buy it as it stands, we pay the closing costs, and you pick the date. If your house is in one of the bigger towns, there is a page for Covington, one for Munford and one for Atoka.
Three ways to sell a house in Tipton County
| Sell to us | Put it on the market | Do it yourself | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agent fee | None | Around 5 to 6 percent of the price | None |
| Condition | Bought as it stands | Argued over after the inspection | Your problem to solve |
| Strangers in the house | None | Every viewing until it sells | You show them round |
| Costs at closing | We cover them | Split between both sides | Yours |
| How long | Two to three weeks, one if needed | Until a buyer with a loan turns up | Open ended |
| Chance of collapse | We pay cash, so none | A refused mortgage is the usual cause | The same risk |
| What you end up with | Below asking, and we say so plainly | Usually the most, given a sound house and time | The most of all, if nothing goes wrong |
Being straight about it: Tipton houses are cheaper than the Tennessee average and most are owner-occupied and reasonably kept, which is the profile that sells perfectly well through an agent. If your house is sound and you have a few months, listing it will usually put more in your pocket, and we would rather tell you that now. Where we are the better answer is condition, an empty house costing you every month, a tenant, or a date somebody else set for you.
What people say about working with us
Paperwork and costs in Tipton County
- Where the deed records. The Tipton County Register of Deeds, Stephanie Presley, at 100 Court Square, Courthouse Room 105, Covington, TN 38019, (901) 476-0204. Every Tipton deed records in Covington, wherever in the county the house is.
- What recording costs, from the county’s own fee table. $10 for an instrument of one or two pages, $5 for each page after that, and a $2 data processing fee per document. Small, but better known now than met at closing.
- The state’s transfer tax. 37 cents per $100 of the price, which is Tennessee-wide rather than a Tipton charge. On a $240,000 sale that is $888. We work it into the number up front rather than letting it turn up as a deduction.
- A house that came through a death. An estate is handled by the court in the county the property sits in, so a Tipton County house goes through Covington. We buy inherited houses with the contents still in them.
Where are we located?
Our office is at 86E N Star Dr, Jackson, TN 38305, and Tipton County is one of the places we buy regularly. Somebody answers 24 hours a day. Closing runs through a title company, so an owner who now lives in another state never has to make the drive.
Questions people in Tipton County ask us
My parents owned the house since the seventies and it has never been updated. Is that a problem?
It is the most common house we buy in this county, and no. Original wiring, a roof at the end of its life, a kitchen from the eighties: a lender will not finance any of it, so an ordinary buyer cannot buy it however much they want to. We are not borrowing, so the condition goes into the number at the start and there is nothing left to fail.
I moved for work and the Memphis drive no longer makes sense. How fast can this be done?
Two to three weeks is normal and one week is possible on a clean title, because nothing on our side is waiting on a bank or a valuation. If you need longer because of a move or an unfinished estate, we set the closing date around you rather than the other way round.
The house is empty and I live out of state. Do I have to come to Tennessee?
No. We look at the house ourselves, so nobody has to meet us there, and signing is handled through a title company from wherever you are. Leave whatever is in the house where it is. The estate side goes through the court in Covington and we work around whatever stage it has reached.
What will I actually net compared with listing it?
Less, and we say so on every page. Tipton’s median house value is $240,600 and most of the stock here is owner-occupied and decent, which is exactly what sells well on the open market. Call us when the problem is the condition, an empty house, a tenant, or a deadline, rather than when you simply want the highest number.
Do you buy in Brighton, Drummonds and the smaller places, or only Covington?
All of them. Brighton, Drummonds, Mason, Gilt Edge, Garland and Burlison are all Tipton County and all record their deeds in the same office in Covington. A small town does not change what we pay or how long it takes.
I have a rental with a tenant in it. Can you still buy?
Yes, and you do not have to give notice or start an eviction first. We take the tenancy as it stands, and the state of the place and any rent you are owed are priced in at the beginning rather than argued about later. If you have more than one, tell us about them together.
Tell us about the house
A rental you are finished with, one standing empty, one that came to you when somebody died, or one that needs more work than you want to put into it. Send the address and say what is going on, and you will get a plain answer on whether we can buy it and what we would pay. No cost, nothing owed, and if selling this way is the wrong move for you we will tell you that too.
We also buy in Brighton.