Roberts Investment Properties

What Roberts Investment Properties does

Roberts Investment Properties, LLC is a family-owned real estate investment company headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee, operating under the consumer-facing brand "We Buy Houses Knoxville." Founded circa 2008, the company purchases single-family residential properties directly from owners for cash and resells them, generating revenue through the spread between acquisition price and subsequent resale value. Its target sellers are homeowners in distressed or time-sensitive situations, including foreclosure, probate and inherited properties, divorce, relocation, financial hardship, major repair needs (flood or fire damage), and landlord-exit scenarios. There are no recurring revenue streams; every transaction is a one-off property acquisition.

The company operates with a single office at 448 N Cedar Bluff Rd #139 in Knoxville, TN, and conducts all customer interactions through direct phone outreach (865-546-8737 / "5HOUSES") and website lead-capture forms. The underlying technology stack is minimal: a WordPress site built on a third-party "Real Estate Agency" theme, a vcita contact form widget, and ExactMetrics analytics — with no proprietary software, platform, or automation disclosed. Inside-sales acquisition specialists (including Senior Acquisition Specialist Dustin Roberts) handle intake, evaluation, and cash-offer presentation manually. Customer acquisition is driven by organic search optimization for local "We Buy Houses Knoxville" queries and direct phone contact, with no paid acquisition, institutional partners, or distribution intermediaries referenced.

There are no disclosed funding rounds, no investors, no subsidiaries, no patents or trademarks, no certifications, and no enterprise customers. The competitive positioning is local and trust-based rather than technology-based, and the company competes in the same micro-market as national iBuyers and other regional cash-buying operations, but without the scale, automation, or capital structure of those competitors.

Name

Roberts Investment Properties

Legal name

Roberts Investment Properties, LLC

Website

https://robertsinvestmentproperties.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2008

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Roberts Investment Properties is a family-owned Knoxville, TN real estate investment company that buys single-family homes directly for cash from distressed homeowners facing foreclosure, probate, inheritance, divorce, or major repair situations, then resells them on the open market.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Residential Real Estate Investment

SIC

Real Estate Dealers (For Their Own Account) (6532)

akta.pro primary industry

Real Assets — Operating Platforms & Direct Investments (FSAAAKAL)

akta.pro secondary industry

Foreclosure/REO & Distressed Property Brokerage (BPAJAAAI)

Keywords

• Cash home buyers
• Distressed property acquisition
• Residential real estate investment
• We buy houses
• Quick close home sales

Headquarters

HQ city

Knoxville

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Direct Property Purchase and Resale: The company purchases properties directly from homeowners for cash, then resells them on the open market or to investors. Revenue is generated through the spread between purchase price and resale value. This is a transaction-based model with one-time purchases rather than recurring revenue.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Roberts Investment Properties purchases residential properties directly from homeowners in the greater Knoxville, Tennessee area for all-cash, regardless of the property's condition or the seller's situation. The company targets distressed property scenarios including foreclosure, probate, divorce, relocation, inheritance, and damaged homes, then resells the acquired properties on the open market or to investors to capture the price spread.

Product overview

Roberts Investment Properties operates as a single-service real estate company offering a unified "We Buy Houses Knoxville TN" home buying service. The company provides one core product: purchasing homes directly from sellers for cash, regardless of property condition. The accompanying "Get A Cash Offer" functionality serves as the customer-facing intake process for the main service. No additional modules, add-ons, or platform architecture are present—the company functions as a direct home buying operation without technology or software products.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• We Buy Houses Knoxville TN Direct cash home-buying service for homeowners in the greater Knoxville, TN area. Purchases residential properties in any condition (foreclosure, probate, inherited, damaged, rental, vacant) without requiring repairs, agent commissions, or fees, with a fast all-cash offer (marketed within 24 hours) and seller-chosen closing date.
• Get A Cash Offer No-obligation cash offer request and intake service that initiates the home-buying process. Homeowners submit property details through a short web form or call (865) 5HOUSES (865-546-8737) to receive a cash offer from Roberts Investment Properties.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves3 records

Direct peers

• Offerpad: Direct cash-offer iBuyer active in select Southeast/Tennessee-adjacent markets. Same fundamental business model — instant cash offer to seller, subsequent resale — and overlapping target customers (homeowners needing a quick, certain sale).
• Knock: Home-trade-in platform that buys homes directly from sellers before listing them on the MLS. Comparable buyer-of-distressed-homes value proposition with similar fee/spread economics, though structured around a trade-in product.
• HomeVestors of America (We Buy Ugly Houses): The largest U.S. franchise network of independent cash home buyers operating under the 'We Buy Ugly Houses' brand. Operates on essentially the same playbook Roberts uses: direct purchase from distressed sellers for cash, resale to investors/retail, no repairs required.
• Opendoor: National iBuyer that makes direct cash offers on homes, then resells them. Operates in many Tennessee markets and competes for the same distressed-motivated seller that Roberts targets, with vastly greater capital and proprietary pricing technology.
• Express Homebuyers: Regional cash home buyer focused on distressed sellers (foreclosure, probate, inherited properties). Operates a near-identical acquisition and resale playbook to Roberts in its footprint.
• House Buyers of America: Direct cash buyer of houses nationwide, specializing in foreclosure, probate, and damaged properties. Same target use cases and no-commission, as-is sale model as Roberts.

Others

• BiggerPockets: Real estate investor education and networking platform that produces a steady stream of would-be local cash buyers — many of whom become direct competitors to Roberts in the Knoxville distressed-property acquisition market.

Broad incumbents

• Redfin: Large national residential brokerage and (historically) iBuyer via RedfinNow. Operates broadly in the Knoxville MLS market and competes indirectly for sellers who might otherwise consider a cash sale to Roberts.

Emerging players

• Sundae: Marketplace that connects sellers of distressed or dated properties with a network of local cash buyers. Comparable distressed-seller customer and partial overlap with Roberts's acquisition funnel, but operates as a marketplace rather than a principal buyer.
• WeBuyHouses.com: Lead-generation platform aggregating motivated home sellers and routing them to local cash buyers. Competes with Roberts for the same inbound organic-search demand for 'we buy houses Knoxville'-type queries.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/roberts-investment-properties-llc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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