A Buyer, Not A Broker
We are a real estate investment company and a direct cash buyer. We are not a licensed brokerage, we do not list houses, and we do not represent buyers or sellers. When we make an offer we are the ones buying, which is why there is no commission.
That distinction matters more than it sounds. An agent is paid a percentage of your sale price. We make our money by eventually reselling or renting the house. Our interests and yours are not identical, and the honest way to handle that is to show you the arithmetic so you can check it, rather than ask you to trust us.
How We Make Offers
Value fully repaired, minus the real cost of the repairs, minus resale and holding costs, leaves your offer. We will give you the comparable sales we used and the repair figure we assumed. If the repair number is wrong, argue with it.
What We Will Not Do
We will not pressure you into deciding on the first call. We will not make an offer and then quietly reduce it after an inspection. We will not tell you a cash sale beats listing when it does not. And if the numbers do not work at all, we will say so on the first call rather than tie up weeks you may not have.
What Happens After You Send The Form
A short conversation first, usually the same day. We ask for the address, roughly what condition the house is in, whether anyone is living in it, and what is driving your timeline. We are not trying to qualify you; we are trying to work out whether we are the right answer, and sometimes the honest conclusion is that we are not.
If it looks workable, we look at the property. That can be in person or, for an out-of-state owner or a tenanted house, without putting you in the middle of the logistics. Then you get a number with the comparable sales and the repair assumption attached to it. If you accept, the file goes to a title company, and what happens next is largely their timeline rather than ours: they clear the title, prorate the taxes to your closing date, and record the deed. You choose the date. There is nothing to sign before you have seen the arithmetic.
What Happens To The House Afterward
We repair it and either resell it or keep it as a rental. That is the whole business model and there is nothing clever hidden in it. Saying it plainly matters because it explains where our offer comes from: the gap between what we pay and what the house is worth finished is the repair budget, the holding cost, and our margin. If you think the repair figure we used is too high, tell us, because that is the number with the most judgment in it and it is the one most worth arguing about.
How To Check Out Any Cash Buyer, Including Us
Ask for proof of funds and actually read it. Ask which title company will handle the closing, then call that title company yourself and confirm they have worked with the buyer before. Ask whether the contract will be assigned to someone else before closing, which is legal but means the person you shook hands with may not be the person who buys. Refuse to sign anything that requires a deposit from you, or that gives the buyer a long unilateral option to walk while you are off the market. And be wary of any offer that arrives before anyone has looked at the house, because a number produced that way has nowhere to go but down.
Those questions are not a trap for us and we would rather you asked them. A seller who has checked is easier to deal with than one who is quietly worried.