Sell your
houseBay Area owners: sell a house that needs work, no need to fix it first.
Send Rod the address
Rod Wilson buys Bay Area houses that need work, straight from owners, agents and wholesalers. He has taken on about 50 projects over 30+ years, twelve of them photographed on this site from Saratoga to Santa Cruz.
Condition
What Rod takes on
Every one is a house Rod has already bought. The street is the proof.
An obsolete layout
Narrow kitchen, not enough bedrooms, rooms chopped up over the years.
Bountiful Acres, SaratogaUnpermitted or illegal space
Low ceilings, converted garages, living area that is not legally living area.
Scott St, San FranciscoFoundation and drainage problems
The things that scare retail buyers off and take a project sideways.
Seaside St, Santa CruzNo garage, no curb appeal
A premium street and a house that does not deserve it yet.
Pennsylvania, Los GatosRoom to add square footage
Where the lot, the setbacks and the city will let the house get bigger.
Montalvo Rd, SaratogaSomething structural in the way
A fireplace in the middle of the floorplan. A roof that has to come off.
Herring Ave, San JoseMarket
Where Rod buys
The towns already on his record, and the ones around them.
- Saratoga
- Los Gatos
- San Jose
- Sunnyvale
- Menlo Park
- Redwood City
- San Francisco
- Belvedere
- Santa Cruz
Process
What happens after you send it
You send the address
Plus what you know: condition, unpermitted space, why it is selling, who lives there. Rough is fine.
Rod looks at it himself
Not an assistant and not a model. Thirty years and a couple of cycles go into reading yours.
He tells you what he thinks
What he believes it is worth, what he would do with it, and whether he is the right buyer.
Proof
He buys directly
Kintyre Way in Sunnyvale came straight from the seller. Rod opened the living, dining and kitchen into one space. It sold $75k over proforma.
See that project →Send it
Send Rod the address
This goes straight to Rod.
Or
Already have it under contract?
Buying it and need the deal funded instead? That is the other half of what Rod does.