Fair Home Cash at a glance
Fair Home Cash makes cash offers on houses nationwide, focused on Chicago and Illinois, in any condition: as-is, no fees or commissions, and the seller picks the closing date.
- Where: nationwide, focused on all 77 Chicago community areas, the suburbs (Cook, DuPage, Lake, Will, Kane and McHenry counties) and the rest of Illinois.
- Who it helps: homeowners facing foreclosure, behind on property taxes, selling an inherited or probate house, dealing with tenants, code violations, fire damage, a divorce, a vacant house, or repairs they cannot afford.
- Cost to the seller: $0. No fees, no commissions, no repairs, no cleaning.
- Timing: once a seller accepts an offer and title is clear, the closing can often happen in 7 to 28 days, on the date the seller picks.
- Closing: through a licensed title company or real estate attorney.
- Contact: (773) 717-5643, open 24/7, hello@fairhomecash.com, or fairhomecash.com/offer.
Fair Home Cash makes cash offers on houses nationwide, focused on Chicago and Illinois, and closes at a licensed title company. Offers are subject to inspection and final contract terms.
Chicago and Illinois first
Fair Home Cash is run from Chicago, and Illinois is where this site goes deepest: 37 county pages, from Cook County to the Metro East and southern Illinois, plus pages for towns, Chicago neighborhoods, and downstate metros, each with local details (browse the directory above). Fair Home Cash also makes cash offers on houses outside Illinois; seller guides for every other state are on the Where We Work page.
Start with the page that fits: sell my house fast in Chicago, sell my house fast in Illinois, selling a house as-is in Chicago, cash home buyers in Chicago, compared, how to vet a Chicago cash buyer, and how a sale to Fair Home Cash works.
One form, anywhere in Illinois
Wherever the house is in Illinois, the process is the same: tell us about the property and, if it is a fit, you may get a cash offer. The request is free and carries no obligation, and you decide. If you accept an offer, a licensed Illinois title company or real estate attorney handles escrow and settlement. You never wire money to us. Sellers pay Fair Home Cash nothing: no fees, no commissions, no percentage of your sale, and nothing is paid to Fair Home Cash out of your proceeds.
Why local matters
A bungalow in Chatham, a two-flat in Pilsen and a ranch in Joliet are different problems. Cook County tax sales run on one clock, a DuPage foreclosure on another, and a Rockford house sells into a different market than a Naperville one. That's why every Illinois market in the directory above has its own page with its own numbers, timelines, and neighborhoods, and why every offer reflects the market the house actually sits in.
If you are on a deadline
Start with the form above instead of browsing — it takes about a minute, and we review what you sent. If foreclosure is the pressure, open the free Illinois foreclosure deadline calculator too: enter the dates from your own notices and you get a planning timeline you can print, share, or add to your calendar, plus free-help pointers like HUD housing counselors.
