We buy houses in Kearny for cash, including houses that have taken on water more than once. Kearny is a town of frame two family houses, most built between 1900 and 1940, packed close together on the streets running up from the river. The Arlington section and Kearny Heights hold most of the older single family stock.

Water is the recurring issue here. The low streets near the meadows flood when the rivers come up, and a house with repeat flood history becomes hard to insure and harder to sell. We buy Kearny houses with flood damage, in whatever condition the last storm left them in.

There is also a lot of long tenure in Kearny. Families stay for generations, so when a house finally sells it is often an estate with heirs spread across a few states and a property nobody has updated in decades.