Who you’re dealing with
Hi, I’m Jerrell Turner. Everyone calls me JT.
I buy houses in Columbus. Here’s who I am and how I work, so you know exactly who you’re talking to before you pick up the phone.
Jerrell “JT” Turner · Columbus, Ohio
A small operation, on purpose
There are national companies that buy houses. They have call centers, scripts, and a person in a different state deciding what a house on your street is worth from a spreadsheet.
That’s not what this is. I’m Jerrell Turner, JT to everyone who knows me, buying houses in the city I actually live in. It’s me and one other person, Tyler, my transaction coordinator. When you call the number on this website, you get one of us. As transaction coordinator, Tyler walks you through each step from offer to closing and answers your questions along the way. When we agree a price, I’m the one who shows up at closing.
Being small has a practical upside for you, too. There’s no regional manager taking a cut and no marketing budget priced into my offers, so more of what the house is worth can stay in your number. That’s the honest version of “we pay more”. Not magic, just fewer hands in the middle.
Trying to look me up? These are all the same person. Jerrell Turner is the full name. JT Turner is what most people write. JT is what everyone actually says. Some people write J.T. Turner with the dots. The business is JT Buys Columbus, and if a letter or postcard reached you it will have had JT Buys Columbus or JT Turner on it. One small local business, one phone number, in Columbus, Ohio.
On the spelling, since people ask. It is Jerrell Turner, spelled J-E-R-R-E-L-L. It gets written Jerell, Jerrel and Jarrell often enough that it is worth saying, and if you are trying to look me up after getting a letter from me, that is usually why you cannot find anything. Everyone calls me JT, so you will see JT Turner as often as Jerrell Turner, and the business is JT Buys Columbus.
“My name is on the sign and this city is smaller than it looks. I’d rather lose a deal than have someone tell their neighbour I wasn’t straight with them.”
How I work
Four things I’ll always do
These aren’t slogans. If I ever fall short on one of them, tell me.
Tell you the truth about your options
If listing with an agent would net you more and you can wait, I’ll say so. I’d rather be the person you call next year than the one who talked you into something today.
Show you my numbers
You can see exactly how I arrived at the offer: recent comparable sales, my repair estimate, my margin. No mystery formula.
Never pressure you
No exploding offers, no “this price is only good today”. Take a week. Get a second opinion. A good offer survives you thinking about it.
Leave you alone if you ask
One call or email and you’re off my mailing list the same day. No re-marketing, no passing your details to anyone else.
Why people usually call me
Almost nobody wakes up wanting to sell a house below retail. People call me because something else is going on and the house has become the problem rather than the asset.
Often it’s an inherited property two states away, with taxes and insurance quietly draining the estate every month. Sometimes it’s a rental that’s stopped being worth the phone calls. Sometimes it’s a house that needs $40,000 of work that the owner simply doesn’t have and can’t borrow.
In each of those cases the honest question isn’t “what is this house worth?” but rather “what is it worth to me, given what selling it the normal way would actually cost and take?” That’s the conversation I’m useful for.
Where I buy
Columbus and the surrounding communities: Westerville, Reynoldsburg, Gahanna, Whitehall, Bexley, Grove City, Hilliard, Dublin, Worthington, Upper Arlington, Groveport, Canal Winchester, Pickerington and the rest of Franklin County, plus parts of Licking, Delaware and Fairfield.
If your property is within roughly an hour of Columbus, it’s worth a call either way.
Want to know what I’d pay for your house?
One conversation, no obligation, and a straight answer either way.
Prefer to text? Send the property address to the same number.