How long does it take to get a cash offer on my East Orange house from Tony?
Usually 10-15 minutes from the start of the phone call. Tony pulls public records and comps while you're on the line.
Want a real cash offer on your East Orange, New Jersey house? Call Tony. He'll pull comps from Essex County, ask about condition, and give you a number on the same call. Free. No obligation. No follow-up emails. No "we'll have someone reach out."

The kind of row house property Tony has bought in East Orange.
Essex County, anchored by Newark, is heavy on multi-family housing — two-families, three-families, four-families. East Orange and Irvington sellers often own occupied multi-units.
Newark and East Orange tax rates are 2.5-3.5% of assessed value; tax-delinquency is common and Tony's title company handles back-tax payoff routinely.
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Tell Tony where the house is and what shape it's in. Get a cash number on the same call. Pick a closing date.
7 days a week, 8 AM to 9 PM Eastern.
Other Essex County cash buyers will give you an "estimate" and then send someone to "verify" — and the offer drops. Tony quotes the firm number on the phone. If you accept, that's the closing number. If unexpected title issues come up, the title company handles them; the offer doesn't change.
East Orange is one of the densest small cities in the state, and it shows in the stock: block after block of 1920s brick apartment buildings and four- to twelve-unit walk-ups along Central Avenue, Main Street, and Park Avenue, with big pre-war frame two- and three-families on the side streets. Presidential Estates in the north end still has single-family Tudors and colonials, and Ampere near the Bloomfield line has 1910s-30s frames on tight lots. Tony buys the apartment buildings, the multi-families, and the single-families alike.
East Orange owners call Tony when a building has turned into a burden. A family two-family inherited from a grandmother, split among cousins who all want out. A landlord worn down by rent control filings, the 2022 lead-safe inspection cycle on a pre-1978 rental, and inspectors who keep finding something new. A tax-sale certificate that quietly accrued interest for years and now comes with a foreclosure notice. Or a vacant house the city has cited for weeds, boarded windows, and squatters. Listing means months of showings with tenants, then a buyer whose lender demands the CCO repairs done first. Tony gives one number on the phone and closes on the seller's date.
East Orange requires a Certificate of Continued Occupancy inspection before a resale, on top of the smoke, carbon monoxide, and fire extinguisher certificate from the fire department — Tony's team pulls both and takes the property with whatever the inspector writes up. The seller pays New Jersey's Realty Transfer Fee (about 1% on a typical sale, reduced for senior and disabled owners on their own residence), and open tax-sale certificates, water bills, and municipal liens are paid off from the proceeds at closing. Pre-1978 rentals fall under the NJ Lead-Safe law; Tony takes responsibility for that after closing. Cash means no appraisal and no bank.
Every cash buyer, Tony included, starts from the same three numbers: what the house would sell for fully renovated, what it costs to get it there, and how long that takes. The offer is that finished value minus the repairs, minus the buyer's resale costs and margin. In practice that lands most cash offers somewhere around 70–85% of the renovated value, less repairs. The honest comparison is not against a renovated house's list price — it is against what you would actually net from a NJ listing after commission, repairs, and months of carrying costs.
| Line item | List with an agent | Sell to Tony |
|---|---|---|
| What the house would sell for fully renovated | $400,000 | $400,000 |
| Repairs a retail buyer's lender will demand | − $45,000 | Tony's problem |
| Agent commission (5–6%) | − $20,000 to $24,000 | $0 |
| Inspection credits, seller closing costs, concessions | − $8,000 to $12,000 | $0 |
| Taxes, insurance, mortgage, utilities while you wait (3–6 months) | − $9,000 to $15,000 | $0 |
| Time to cash in hand | 4 to 7 months | 7 to 14 days |
| What you actually walk away with | ≈ $305,000 to $318,000 | Tony's number, in full, on your date |
Whether Tony's number beats that listing net depends on the house. On a move-in-ready home in a hot NJmarket it usually will not, and Tony will tell you to list. On a house that needs work, has tenants, sits in an estate, or carries violations — the houses retail buyers cannot finance — it is often close, and the seven-day timeline is the difference. Call 1-908-768-4759, get the number, and compare it yourself.
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Drop your number and Tony reaches out about your East Orange property within an hour.
Usually 10-15 minutes from the start of the phone call. Tony pulls public records and comps while you're on the line.
It's a firm number. If you accept, that's the closing number. The offer doesn't drop after a "second look" because there is no second look — Tony already considered everything based on your description.
Often, yes. Compare Tony's offer to two or three others. The lowball ones will be obvious. The better national buyers will be in the same range as Tony — but only Tony's offer is from the actual person who'll close it.
Tell him. Tony has room to move within reason if you've got information about the property he didn't have. The first number isn't always the final number — but it's the honest starting place.
Zero. The call is free. The offer is free. No paperwork, no agreements, no obligation. Hang up if you don't like the number.
Cash buyers, Tony included, typically land around 70-85% of what the house would sell for fully renovated, minus the repairs it actually needs. Compare that to your real net from a East Orange listing — after a 5-6% commission, inspection repair credits, and months of carrying costs — and the gap is usually much smaller than it first looks. Tony gives you the exact number on the call so you can do that math yourself.
Yes. East Orange rent control stays with the building, and Tony steps in as the landlord with the same leases and the same regulated rents. You don't have to empty a single unit. He'll ask for a rent roll — even a handwritten one — and who is current, then quote one number for the whole building as it sits.
Not with Tony. A failed Certificate of Continued Occupancy stops a bank-financed buyer, because the lender wants the corrections done before closing. Tony pays cash, so he buys the house as-is and does the CCO work himself after the sale. The number he gives you already accounts for it — you don't fix anything.
Yes. Tony buys in both East Orange ZIP codes, 07017 and 07018: brick walk-ups on Central and Main, frame multi-families off Park Avenue, single-family Tudors in Presidential Estates, and the tight-lot frames of Ampere near Watsessing. If it's inside the East Orange city line, he'll give you a number.
No. Until a judge signs a foreclosure judgment, you still own the house and can sell it. Tony's title company gets the payoff figure from the certificate holder — the original taxes plus the interest and penalties — and redeems it from your sale proceeds at closing. The sooner you call, the more equity is left for you.
One Essex County cash offer, no follow-up calls from a network. 1-908-768-4759.
§·· / Schedule
Tell Tony where the house is and what shape it's in. Get a cash number on the same call. Pick a closing date.
7 days a week, 8 AM to 9 PM Eastern.
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