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Off-market · Columbus, Ohio

Off-market investment properties in Columbus, underwritten before you see them.

Closing Columbus puts discounted houses under contract directly with owners across central Ohio and assigns them to investors. Every deal comes with the ARV and the spread, so you can decide in minutes.

Newest deal
$71,100ARV $185k
Wheeling St, Lancaster
3 bd1 ba1,620 sqft$62k spread
See the numbers
5
Deals under contract right now
31%
Average spread to ARV across our deals
300+
Real deals closed since 2021
21
Days or fewer to close on most assignments

Current deals

Under contract and ready to assign

Real numbers on every card. Prices include our assignment fee, there is nothing added later.

See all 5 deals
Exterior of Rosehill Rd, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068, an off-market investment property from Closing Columbus Available View deal
$145,900$132/sqft
Rosehill RdReynoldsburg, OH 43068
3 bd1 ba1,109 sqftRanch
ARV$265k
Price to ARV55%
Spread$78k
Exterior of Havens Corners Rd, Gahanna, OH 43230, an off-market investment property from Closing Columbus Available View deal
$227,600$113/sqft
Havens Corners RdGahanna, OH 43230
3 bd2 ba2,013 sqftSingle family
ARV$385k
Price to ARV59%
Spread$109k
Exterior of Wheeling St, Lancaster, OH 43130, an off-market investment property from Closing Columbus Available View deal
$71,100$44/sqft
Wheeling StLancaster, OH 43130
3 bd1 ba1,620 sqftSingle family
ARV$185k
Price to ARV38%
Spread$62k

How it works

From a listing on this page to keys in your hand

01

We find and contract the house

Direct from owners across central Ohio. Estates, tired landlords, houses that need work. We walk every one and put it under contract at a price that leaves room.

02

We underwrite it honestly

Recent renovated comps for ARV, a walkthrough of what the house needs, and the spread in plain numbers. What you see on the deal page is what we would buy it on.

03

You review and make an offer

Walk it, run your own numbers, use the calculator, and send an offer from the property page. We answer the same day, no agent, no runaround.

04

You close on your timeline

Assignment agreement, earnest money to the title company, close inside three weeks. Then flip it, rent it, or hold it.

The full process, including how we set the price

Why Closing Columbus

A wholesaler that shows its work

Most off-market deals arrive as a blurry photo and a price with no story. Ours arrive with the numbers you would have had to pull yourself.

Sourced direct, Closing Columbus

Sourced direct

Every deal on this site is under contract with the owner by us. No daisy chains, no reposted deals from other wholesalers, no bidding wars run by a call center.

Underwritten before it is listed, Closing Columbus

Underwritten before it is listed

ARV from recent renovated comps, a walkthrough of every house with our contractors, and the spread shown on every card. If a house does not work at the price, it does not go on the site.

Columbus, and only Columbus, Closing Columbus

Columbus, and only Columbus

We work Franklin County and the six counties around it. We know which streets flip, which ones rent, and which ones to leave alone, and we tell you which is which.

The honest wholesaler

We know what people think of wholesalers. We built this company to be the exception.

Inflated ARVs, deals passed through three hands, sellers who never understood what they signed. That reputation was earned by others. More than 300 real deals since 2021 say we run it differently. Here is how, and what Ohio law now requires of everyone.

Sellers

The disclosure is signed on every deal

Ohio Revised Code 5301.95 now requires a wholesaler to tell the owner, in writing, before anything is signed, that we may assign the contract for a fee. We hand that form to every seller and we keep the signed copy. No exceptions, no fine print.

Buyers

Real numbers, our own contracts

Every deal here is under contract with the owner by us, not reposted from another wholesaler. The ARV comes from renovated comps you can pull yourself, and every house has been walked with a contractor, not guessed at.

Everyone

No pressure, no games

Sellers get time to read and take advice. Buyers get one price and one answer, not a bidding war. A licensed title company holds every dollar. If a deal only works by squeezing someone, we do not do it.

How we are different, in full

Local, lean, down to earth

No billboards. No commercials. No call center. That is on purpose.

Big operations spend on advertising and staff, then pass that overhead on to you as higher prices and thinner deals. We are a small local company in Hilliard and we keep it that way, so the savings stay in the deal.

01

No advertising overhead

You will not see us on a billboard or a TV spot. That money does nothing for a seller or a buyer, so we do not spend it, and we do not need to recover it from you.

02

No massive team

There is no acquisitions floor, no dispositions department, no script. Fewer salaries means fairer numbers, and the person you talk to is the person who makes the decision.

03

Local, and reachable

We live here, we drive these streets, and we walk every house ourselves. If you have a question about a deal you get an answer the same day, from Columbus, not from a call center somewhere else.

Solomon Sparks, founder of Closing Columbus, Columbus Ohio real estate wholesaler
Solomon SparksFounder, Closing Columbus

The person behind the deals

Built by one investor for the investors he works with

Solomon Sparks has been investing in Columbus real estate since 2018, when he started fixing and flipping houses and sourcing every deal himself, direct from the seller. He founded Closing Columbus in 2021 after seeing that nobody was consistently bringing good, honest deals to the Columbus investment community.

Since then Closing Columbus has transacted more than 300 real deals, every one sourced direct to seller and closed. Today Solomon runs the company and is building a multifamily portfolio the same way, buying distressed apartment buildings off market at a discount. Multifamily deals are coming to this site soon.

Solomon Sparks

More about Solomon and the company

Questions investors ask

Straight answers

What does off-market mean here?

The houses we sell are not listed on the MLS or the public portals. We put them under contract directly with the owner, usually someone who wants a fast, simple sale, and then we assign that contract to an investor. You buy at our contract price plus our fee, which is included in the price you see on the site.

How do I buy one of these properties?

Pick a property, run the numbers, and send an offer through the form on that page. We reply the same day. If we agree on price you sign an assignment agreement, put down earnest money with the title company, and close on the date in the contract. Most closings are inside 21 days.

What kind of financing do you accept?

Cash, private money, and hard money. These are assignable contracts on houses that need work, so conventional mortgages do not fit. If you need a lender we can point you to local hard money lenders who close on our timelines.

Can I walk the property before I make an offer?

Yes. Most of our properties are vacant with a lockbox. Tell us when you want to go and we will set it up. For occupied properties we schedule a showing with the owner. We would rather you see the house than guess.

Where does your ARV come from?

ARV comes from recent renovated sales within a half mile and similar size, pulled the week we list. We also walk every house with our contractors before we price it, so the spread already allows for the work the house needs. They are our honest estimates, not guarantees. Do your own diligence and run your own comps.

All questions, for buyers and sellers

Buyers list

Hear about the next deal before it hits this page.

Buyers list members get every new contract by email, and by text if they want it, usually a day or two before it goes public. Tell us what you buy and we only send what fits.

  • Deal numbers in the first email: price, ARV, spread
  • Photos and a walkthrough time on request
  • No fees, no daisy chains, no selling your details
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