Maxwell Anderson sells Milwaukee home for $195,000

Maxwell Anderson, charged in the killing of 19-year-old Sade Robinson, has sold his home on Milwaukee's south side for $195,000.

Representatives of those who sold and bought Anderson’s home disagree over how much information buyers had about the home’s significance.

Either way, those who purchased the home, which is connected to the homicide and dismemberment of Robinson, don’t feel swindled or misled.

“It was up to them to look into it,” said Nanette Saunders, a property manager and registered agent for two limited liability companies that purchased the home. “I’ve been selling homes for 24 years. Sometimes this happens.”

Saunders’ comments came in response to a statement released Wednesday by Anderson’s father, Steven Anderson. He said that any statements that buyers were not aware of news reports regarding his son are “unequivocally false.”

“The seller’s representatives were transparent in all aspects of the transaction, and the significantly reduced sales price reflected the impact the controversy had on the value of the property,” Steven Anderson said in a statement.

“Any comments to the contrary are inaccurate and misleading.”

Saunders said Wednesday that the sellers of the home informed the buyers that it was connected to a homicide but did not volunteer other details. She said buyers did not research them until after closing.

Steven Anderson’s comments come one day after Saunders told the Journal Sentinel that neither she nor the new owners knew of the property’s significance prior to the home’s sale.

"The buyers didn’t even know this story, nor do they watch the news or any of those things," Saunders said Tuesday. "I didn’t know anything about it either. I don’t watch the news."

In the weeks since Robinson's death, community members turned a focus onto Anderson's home. In April, mourners decorated the exterior with pink items in honor of Robinson and community members had expressed a general concern over Anderson's family entering the home, removing property and selling the home itself.

Details of the sale

Saunders has declined to identify the home's buyers, but has said they are not connected to Maxwell Anderson or his family.

She said the buyers visited the home April 13, when no pink items were placed outside.

During another visit to the home on the morning of May 3, the date of closing, the home’s exterior was decorated with pink items and the basement floor had a chunk of concrete missing. Saunders said that was the result of law enforcement trying to access the home’s sewer pipe. The floor was repaired later that day and paid for by the sellers, she said.

The buyers “weren’t very happy with what was happening at the house” but they could not back out of the sale and still wanted the home, Saunders said.

A property deed indicates that Maxwell Anderson sold his home at 3159-3161 S. 39th St. to Tip Top Holdings LLC and Syden Holdings LLC. The sale was recorded Friday.

The home, with an assessed value of $272,000, was sold for $195,000, according to a Wisconsin Department of Revenue online record.

Anderson purchased the home in 2020 for $140,500, according to Milwaukee property assessment data.

Tip Top Holdings was incorporated April 24 and is based in Okauchee, records said. Syden Holdings is based in Caledonia and incorporated in 2019.

Saunders said the buyer acquired the home as an investment property and may give it to their children in the future.

"We all believe that this was heinous," she said of the allegations connected to the home. "It’s a horrible, horrible tragedy, but it really doesn’t have anything to do with this family."

Law enforcement has said a sale won't impact the investigation

In early May, the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office said nobody had inappropriately entered the home because investigators had already secured evidence. The statement said any sale would not impact the investigation.

"If at any point investigators determine they need to re-enter the home, they will secure another search warrant and do so, no matter who owns the home," the release said.

In April, Anderson was charged with killing and dismembering Robinson after going on a first date with her April 1.

She was reported missing on April 2. Robinson was memorialized at a public memorial service on what would have been her 20th birthday, on May 10. She was remembered as a "remarkable" young woman.

Anderson's next scheduled court hearing is a preliminary hearing on Thursday.

Contact David Clarey at dclarey@gannett.com or 605-579-0223. Follow him on X (Twitter) at @david_clarey.

This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Maxwell Anderson, accused of killing Sade Robinson, sells his Milwaukee home