I'm Tom Schmidt, President and CEO -- I'd like to personally welcome you to Homes In Transition (HIT). We are constantly updating the information on this site to bring you the most comprehensive information about our services and how you can put them to use for your particular situation. If you don't see what your are looking for, please contact us or call our corporate office. We have added a lot of text here based on the thousands of discussions we have with our clients. It is a wonderfully simple business model that always needs a good measure of explanation. If you would rather see what we do, check out our video.
 
Homes In Transition is a A+ rated BBB company, headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico. HIT was founded in January 2009 and enrolled it's first house on January 27, 2009 - three days before we officially opened our doors!. HIT's staff has nearly 30 years combined experience serving Property Owners, Realtors and Caretakers in this unique service industry. My personal experience goes back to when we introduced this concept to New Mexico back in 1986.

Our mission is to help Property Owners including individuals, investors, banks even the federal government, manage the day to day care and maintenance of their vacant properties, while providing a marketing solution for the property that in many cases rivals that of an owner occupied situation. Part of our mission is to provide a much improved, always available, safe and comfortable showing experience for Realtors so the property has the best chance possible to sell faster and for more money. To help meet these goals, we also provide a high quality, housing opportunity for qualified families and individuals who can live in one of our great houses for about the cost of a studio apartment. Together, it is a shared solution for all parties.

Homes In Transition is the solution for vacant houses.  We not only provide a unique marketing opportunity for vacant houses, which costs the Property Owner little if anything, but we keep these properties safe, maintained, and we even pay the regular operating costs such as utilities and association fees. One of the best consequences of our business is that the distraction of "another vacant house" is removed from the neighborhood making it more attractive to prospective buyers and giving the neighbors some relief from having one less vacant house to deal with.

HIT is the lowest cost, most effective, private enterprise, neighborhood stabilization program available. We are the solution for vacant houses! 

Unfortunatly, others try to copy what we have been doing for years in ways that are not honest. We hope that if you have a vacant house you wish to enrol in our program or if you are interested in becoming a pert of our Caretaker Corp., that you would take a look at the alert we have posted on our Caretaker page.
 
It's no secret, Realtors appreciate showing a house they can sell quickly. Since a house with a breath of life, nice furnishings and proper care will always attract more buyers and better offers than a cold vacant dwelling, guess which one is easier to sell? Not a bad policy if you feed your family from a commission check! Realtors don't show rentals because of all the hassle and they would much rather show a HIT Caretaker Occupied house or maybe even a staged house before they showed a vacant house because they know they earn higher and faster commissions when they sell occupied houses. HGTV and many other real estate shows would not be as successful demonstrating the benefits of a fixed up, furnished "model home" approach to selling houses if vacant houses sold better. Realtors sometimes get fixated on their traditional marketing plan and lose sight of adding incredible marketing opportunities like Homes In Transition. It's just not true in this market, that vacant houses sell faster. Vacant houses close faster in "hot" markets because buyers are standing over the property waving cash to get in, and yes, having to move a Caretaker under those circumstances would slow things down for at least 14 days.

As a Custom Home Builder, I would never think of showing my work without the added benefit of furnishings, nice appointments and regular maintenance. Home builders furnish their models not because they have a bunch of furniture in storage, but because it's the time tested best way to market their product! And Homes In Transition is the best way to gain that marketing advantage WITHOUT ANY OF THE COST OR HASSLE.


While we believe the HIT program is right for any inhabitable vacant house, whether on the market or not, we don't believe this win-win situation is right for everyone seeking to live in one of our great properties. The HIT program offers incredible benefit for our qualified Caretaker residents, but there are some reasonable tradeoffs for the opportunity. For most of our applicants however, HIT provides a great solution to their housing needs that is unmatched.

If your house is sitting vacant with no showings, little interest and your marketing plan needs a breath of life, HIT is the solution.

If you want a great place to live with no long term commitment all for about the cost of a studio apartment, HIT may be the solution.

Whether you are a Property Owner, Realtor or prospective Caretaker, we hope you will take some time and see what our company has to offer.

Welcome to Homes In Transition!