DANE COUNTY & THE SURROUNDING COUNTIES
Find the right home
with someone by your side.
Hi, I'm Nikki. I'm a Buyer's Agent & Showing Agent, part of the Dan Chin Homes team.
Personalized home searches, showings, and buyer support throughout Dane County and the surrounding communities.
Buyer's Agent & Showing Agent at Dan Chin Homes & Real Broker, LLC
Where Nikki Works
Local roots.
A wider reach.
Dane County and the surrounding counties
Home base in McFarland, WI — proudly serving Dane County and the seven counties that actually border it. Close enough to know the streets, not a statewide guess.
Home base in McFarland — serving Dane County and the surrounding communities.
How Nikki Helps
Here's exactly how Nikki works with you.
Buying a home means a lot of moving pieces. Nikki walks every one of them with you personally — and brings in the Dan Chin Homes team the moment it's time to make it official.
Buyer's Agent & Showing Agent
First home or next home — I'll help you see what's actually there.
You don't need to be fluent in real estate. I'll walk every property with you, point out what the photos don't show, and make sure you understand what happens next.
- 01Understand what you need
Talk through location, price range, priorities, timing, and financing.
- 02Find the right homes
Help identify properties that match what you're actually looking for — not just send automated listings.
- 03Schedule & attend showings
Coordinate showings and personally walk properties with you.
- 04Look beyond the listing
Review the MLS information together and point out details, features, potential concerns, and questions worth asking.
- 05Work with the Dan Chin Homes team
When you're ready to move forward, Nikki connects you with the experience and resources of Dan Chin Homes to help guide the offer and transaction through closing.
Showing Agent
See more than the listing.
Online photos and an MLS sheet only tell part of the story. Nikki helps buyers get inside the homes they're interested in, understand what they're seeing, and identify questions worth asking before taking the next step.
What a Showing Agent actually does: Nikki schedules and coordinates every showing, walks the property with you in person, and points out what the online photos and MLS sheet leave out — condition, layout quirks, recent updates, and questions worth raising before you go further.
She's also not working from just her own read on a home. As part of the Dan Chin Homes team approach, Nikki has access to and support from the full team of agents — their local knowledge of specific neighborhoods, schools, and property types — so you're getting more than one person's opinion, even though Nikki is your one point of contact throughout.
The MLS gives you the facts. Nikki helps you understand what those facts mean.
See How To Read An MLS Listing → A free, plain-English walkthrough of a real listing sheet — what each field means and what to actually look for.Personal Service. Backed By A Team.
You're not doing this alone.
When you work with Nikki, you're not navigating the home-buying process alone. She's part of Dan Chin Homes & Real Broker, LLC — giving her buyers her personal, hands-on attention on every search and showing, plus the mentorship, market knowledge, and full transaction support of an established local brokerage behind her, from the first showing through closing day.
New To This?
Buying your first home?
You don't need to know everything before you start. Nikki can help you understand the process, connect with the right resources, tour homes, understand MLS listings, ask the right questions, and know what comes next.
Get financially ready
Nikki connects you with the right lender first, so you know your real number before you fall for a house.
Find the right home
Detail-oriented, on-site walkthroughs — she'll flag what the listing photos don't show.
Make a smart offer
A strategy built around what you can actually live with — explained in plain English.
Buyer Tools
Run your own numbers first.
Two quick tools before you talk to anyone — estimate what a monthly payment might look like, then send Nikki the listing you're actually eyeing.
What Can You Afford?
Estimate a monthly payment
Estimate only — not a loan offer or pre-qualification. Your real rate and payment depend on credit, loan program, and lender. Property tax varies a lot by municipality within Dane County; the default above is a rough starting point, not your actual bill.
Not sure what numbers to use?
Help Me Figure Out My BudgetFound A House You Like?
Send Nikki the listing
Paste a Zillow, Realtor.com, Redfin, or MLS link and Nikki will follow up with her take — comps, what to check, and whether it's worth a showing.
Nikki's Take
A buyer's-eye video, every week.
Nikki records a quick, honest walkthrough take on a few listings she's touring — not an ad, just what she'd point out if you were walking through together: layout, mechanicals, what the photos leave out, and what she'd ask before writing an offer.
First Take Coming Soon
Nikki's first weekly walkthrough posts here shortly — check back, or follow along on Instagram in the meantime.
Get To Know Nikki
Follow along, before you ever meet in person.
Nikki tours homes, explores communities, and shares real estate tips on video — a closer look at what's available around Dane County, and at who you'd be working with. Tap any one to play it with sound.
Created by Nikki
The Hook
"Before you scroll…"
A scroll-stopping open on location, before the walkthrough even starts — built for the first two seconds of a feed.
The Reveal
Door by door
Letting the house do the talking — a straight-through entry reveal instead of a slideshow of stills.
The Bit
A little humor, on purpose
A creative overlay gag in front of the listing — memorable content, not just another walkthrough.
More of Nikki's tours, tips, and local videos on @nikkisellswi.
About Nikki
A Wisconsin native, working where she's from.
Nikki Caya · Realtor
Buyers get someone who notices what the listing photos don't show — backed by the full Dan Chin Homes team when it's time to make an offer.
"I love that I'm part of a team and not starting somewhere on my own."
A lifelong Wisconsinite, Nikki brings a genuinely detail-oriented eye to every showing — the same instinct that makes her stop and notice a listing photo that's hiding something. She pairs that with a hands-on approach for first-time buyers, walking the full process alongside them and helping them align with the right lender and financial partner along the way.
She also brings a rare second skill from her marketing background: shooting and editing her own video content — the same eye she uses to help buyers see a home clearly, and to give them a real feel for a listing or neighborhood before they ever walk in.
Affiliated Brokerage
Dan Chin Homes
& Real Broker, LLC
"Helping you love where you live."
McFarland·Downtown Madison·West Madison·Sun Prairie
Let's Find Your Wisconsin
Tell Nikki what you're looking for.
A few quick details help her hit the ground running — whether that's lining up a lender, mapping out a search area, or getting you in to see a home this week.
Or tell Nikki a bit more below and she'll follow up personally.
Nikki Caya is a real estate agent affiliated with Dan Chin Homes & Real Broker, LLC, Wisconsin. © Nikki Sells Wisconsin.