How much commission do I save by selling my Montclair house to Tony directly?
5-6% of sale price. On a $300K Montclair house, that's $15,000-$18,000. On a $500K, $25,000-$30,000. You keep all of it.
Selling a Montclair house through a Essex County agent: list it, stage it, show it, take low offers, negotiate inspections, wait on the buyer's mortgage, pay 6% commission. Selling to Tony: phone call, offer, close. The math is obvious.

The kind of row house property Tony has bought in Montclair.
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.
Why do agents in Montclair push for a price reduction after 30 days on the market? Because their job is to close — yours or someone else's. Their commission is the same whether your house sells for $400K or $375K. Tony's offer is direct; there's no agent incentive working against you.
Montclair is a town of big old houses: Victorians, 1900-1930 colonials, Tudors, and center-hall brick homes on the streets climbing toward the First Mountain, many still on their original slate roofs and steam boilers. The South End and the blocks near Bloomfield Avenue and Bay Street have two-families and pre-war apartment buildings, and there are garden condos and co-ops along Valley Road and near the stations. Tony buys the grand houses that need everything as readily as the two-families.
Montclair sellers who call Tony are almost never in a hurry because they have to be — they're in a hurry because the house has outrun them. A widow in a five-bedroom Upper Montclair colonial with a leaking slate roof, an underground oil tank the town wants documented, and a tax bill north of what the house earns in rent. Heirs in three states sharing a Victorian full of eighty years of belongings. A landlord with a South End two-family now under Montclair's rent control ordinance who would rather cash out than register. In a market where retail buyers expect a renovated kitchen and a clean tank sweep, an as-is house sits or gets picked apart in inspection. Tony gives one number on the phone and closes on the seller's date.
Every Montclair sale needs the smoke detector, carbon monoxide, and fire extinguisher certificate from the fire department, and buyers' attorneys here routinely ask for an underground oil tank sweep — Tony buys with the tank in the ground, leaking or not. The seller pays the NJ Realty Transfer Fee (about 1% on most sales, with the senior and disabled reduction on a principal residence), and on sales over $1 million the state's so-called mansion tax comes into play; Tony builds it into the number he quotes. Contracts go through the standard three-business-day NJ attorney review. No lender, so no appraisal.
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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5-6% of sale price. On a $300K Montclair house, that's $15,000-$18,000. On a $500K, $25,000-$30,000. You keep all of it.
Tony is the buyer. There's no buyer to find — you're calling the buyer directly. No MLS, no Zillow listing, no showings.
MLS exposure is how agents find buyers. Tony doesn't need it because Tony already has cash and is already the buyer. The whole reason for MLS evaporates.
Sometimes a tiny bit less, sometimes more. The commission savings often more than offset any difference. And if your Montclair house needs work, has a complication, or just needs to sell fast — the agent route nets you less in the end.
No listing agreement. No exclusivity. No "right to sell." You call, Tony makes an offer, you decide. If you say no, you owe nothing — there's no contract until you sign one at closing.
No. Buried tanks are the single most common reason Montclair sales fall apart in inspection, because banks and retail buyers want a sweep, a soil test, and a removal certificate before closing. Tony buys the house with the tank in place — abandoned, active, or leaking — and handles removal and any remediation after closing. That risk is his, not yours.
Both, and everything between. Tony buys in 07042 and 07043: Upper Montclair colonials off Valley Road, Estate Section houses up the hill, Watchung Plaza and Walnut Street two-families, South End multi-families, and condos near the stations. Price point doesn't change the process — one number on the phone, close on your date.
Yes, if the house isn't turnkey. A renovated Montclair colonial will fetch more with a broker after staging and bidding. A house with the original 1920s kitchen, a slate roof at end of life, knob-and-tube in the walls, and a tank in the yard gets discounted hard by every retail buyer's inspector. Tony's number is competitive against that real net, and it's paid in days, not months.
Yes. Montclair's rent control ordinance and the tenants' leases carry over to Tony as the new landlord. You don't need to vacate anyone or bring registrations current first. Tell him the units and rents and he'll quote one number for the building as it stands.
Save $20K+ on a typical Essex County sale. Call Tony at 1-908-768-4759 — direct buyer, no agent.
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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.
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