How long does it take to get a cash offer on my Trenton 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.
Most "cash offer" sites in Mercer County send your info to a network and then five buyers cold-call you for a week. Tony just gives you the number on the phone. One call, one offer, your decision.

The kind of two family property Tony has bought in Trenton.
Mercer County, anchored by Trenton, includes Princeton, Hamilton, and Ewing. Trenton row houses (Chambersburg, North Trenton) make up a large share of distressed-property sales.
Mercer County tax rates are 2.5-3.2%; Trenton properties especially have high effective rates relative to value.
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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 Mercer 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.
Trenton row houses, especially in Chambersburg, are Tony's bread and butter. Inherited family homes, vacant for years — Tony buys them as-is, full of belongings or empty. Section by section it's 1880s-1920s brick row houses through Chambersburg, South Trenton, and the Wilbur Section; frame and brick twins and small semi-detached houses in North Trenton and along Hamilton Avenue; restored Federal and Victorian row houses in Mill Hill; and larger 1920s-30s single-families with yards in Hiltonia, Berkeley Square, and the Glen Afton and Island sections along the river, where the Delaware floods.
Trenton is the city where Tony hears about tax-sale certificates more than anywhere else. A Chambersburg row house inherited from a grandmother, vacant since the funeral, with a certificate sold at the city's lien sale and now a foreclosure complaint. A landlord in North Trenton done with the rental inspection cycle, the lead-safe requirement on a pre-1978 house, and a tenant who stopped paying. Heirs in three states splitting a Hiltonia colonial full of belongings. An Island section house that floods every time the Delaware comes up. And absentee owners paying the city's vacant-property registration fee on a house nobody has been inside in years. A listing on a row house that needs everything gets lowball retail offers or none. Tony gives one number on the phone and closes on the seller's date.
Trenton requires the city's resale inspection and certificate before a house changes hands, along with the fire official's smoke, carbon monoxide, and fire extinguisher certificate — Tony's side schedules both and buys with whatever the inspector writes up. The seller pays the NJ Realty Transfer Fee (about 1% on most sales, less for senior and disabled owners on a primary residence). Tax-sale certificates, water and sewer liens, and vacant-property fees are redeemed from proceeds at closing; tenant leases transfer to Tony. The Island and Glen Afton sections sit in the Delaware's flood zone, which is a lender problem, and there is no lender.
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 Trenton 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 Trenton 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.
Usually yes, as long as a court hasn't entered a final judgment. Tony's title company gets the redemption figure from the certificate holder's attorney, pays it from your proceeds at closing, and the foreclosure is dismissed. Call the day you get the notice — once judgment is entered the house is gone, and Trenton certificates move to foreclosure faster than most people expect.
Yes. Tony buys across every Trenton ZIP code — 08609, 08610, 08611, 08618, 08629, and 08638 — from Chambersburg and South Trenton row houses to North Trenton twins, Mill Hill row houses, Hiltonia and Berkeley Square colonials, and the flood-prone houses in the Island and Glen Afton. If it's inside the city, he'll give you a number on the phone.
Yes. Boarded windows, a roof that has been open for a winter, a stripped basement, and a vacant-property registration fee don't stop Tony. He buys sight-unseen if that's easier for you, pays cash, and takes on the cleanup and the city's paperwork after closing. You don't secure it, clean it, or make it presentable.
Yes, with the tenant in place. Tony takes over the lease — or the handshake arrangement — and the landlord-tenant process at closing, and doesn't ask you to evict first. Tell him what the rent was supposed to be and how long it's been, and he'll quote one number for the house.
Curious what Tony will pay for your Trenton house? Call 1-908-768-4759 and find out.
§·· / 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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