Ten things you are entitled to when you sell through a buyer in our network, written down before you ever sign anything, so you can hold every buyer we connect you with to every one of them.
Most of what goes wrong between a homeowner and a cash buyer goes wrong because nothing was written down. The offer was verbal. The repair estimate was a shrug. The closing date moved. The price got cut the week before closing, after the moving truck was booked. None of that survives contact with paper.
So here is our paper. These are not marketing promises; they are the standards we ask every independent buyer in our network to meet, stated as your rights, because that is what they are. Print this page. Bring it to the walkthrough. If a buyer we connected you with ever falls short of a line on it, read that line back to the buyer; if it is not fixed, walk, no charge, no argument, and tell us so we know which buyers keep the standard.
The ten rightsEvery buyer in our network is expected to put the number in writing with the work shown: the comparable sales used, the repair scope priced, and every cost subtracted. Many respond within 24 hours of the walkthrough. Not a figure over the phone. Not a range. A signed document you can keep, whether or not you ever talk to that buyer again. The full method is public at How Cash Buyers Price Offers.
The comparable sales in your offer are real addresses you can look up. The repair scope is itemized line by line, and you keep a copy. If you think a number is wrong — the fixed-up value, a repair line, anything — you can challenge it with your own contractor bid or your own comps, and ask the buyer to rerun the math with you. The inputs are facts, and facts can be checked.
Requesting an offer costs nothing and commits you to nothing. Take the written offer to your attorney, shop it against other options, or ignore it entirely — until you sign a purchase contract, you can walk away at any moment, for any reason, no charge and no argument. And before you ever sign, right #7 is in force: your own attorney reads the contract first, including its cancellation terms, so you know exactly what binds you and how before anything does.
No fees to Fair Home Cash, ever. Independent buyers pay Fair Home Cash flat marketing fees for the seller inquiries our advertising generates. Those fees are paid up front, are the same whether or not a purchase ever happens, are never a percentage of your sale, and never come out of your proceeds. No agent commission. Buyers in our network typically cover the seller's usual closing costs, and your written offer should say so. No repair credits, no cleaning bill, no "processing" charge, no fee invented on the back page of a contract. The offer you accept is the amount you receive, minus only what the title company pays off out of your proceeds (your mortgage balance, back taxes, liens), and every one of those payoffs appears on your settlement statement.
The re-trade — cutting the price days before closing, after you are emotionally and logistically committed — is the ugliest move in this business, and no buyer in our network should ever do it. Under the standard we publish, the written offer should change only if you and the buyer agree in writing that a material fact changed (say, a foundation problem neither of you could see). It never changes just because you are now in too deep to say no. Part 4 of the offer math page shows the three questions that expose buyers who do this.
Many buyers in our network close in 7 to 28 days if the deadline is real, or sixty days and more if you need time to sort a lifetime out of a house. The date is yours to pick and yours to move; needing three more weeks to pack is a scheduling note, not a renegotiation. The buyer works around your life, not the other way around.
Illinois closings customarily run through attorneys, and we treat that as your protection, not a formality. You have the right to have your own independent Illinois attorney review the contract and the closing documents before you sign, and the buyer is expected to wait while they do. Any buyer who discourages you from showing a contract to a lawyer is telling you what is in the contract.
Your information is used to connect you with buyers who can make you a cash offer, handled exactly as our Privacy Policy describes — read it before you submit anything; it says what it does in the first paragraph. And your do-not-sell-or-share request is honored without hoops: one click, no argument.
Under our buyer standards, offers do not "expire at midnight." You will not get a script designed to make you sign at the kitchen table. And when you tell us to stop, we stop — and a STOP reply to any text cuts off that sender. Take the offer to your attorney, compare it against an agent's net sheet, collect competing offers. A number that only works under pressure was never a fair number.
Ask the buyer anything about your deal, such as what happens to a lien or why a repair line costs what it costs, and you are entitled to a direct answer from a person, not a runaround. And ask us anything about how Fair Home Cash works: who we are, how we get paid, and which buyer received your inquiry. Call (773) 717-5643 or write hello@fairhomecash.com. If we do not know, we say so and find out.
The ten rights above collapse into three commitments, the same standard we print on How Cash Buyers Price Offers, asked of every buyer in our network:
Buyers in our network are expected to put the number in writing with the work shown: the comparable sales used, the repair scope priced, and every cost subtracted. On paper, signed by the buyer, yours to keep either way. Many respond within 24 hours of the walkthrough.
Network buyers are expected to honor the written offer after your inspection. It should change only if you and the buyer agree in writing that a material fact changed, never because you are already committed.
Until you sign a purchase contract, nothing binds you: no fee, no obligation, no argument. Take the offer to your attorney, shop it against other options, or ignore it entirely.
Anyone with a bandit sign and a burner phone can promise a fast, fair cash sale. The sellers who get hurt in this business are almost never hurt by the price itself — they are hurt by what was never put in writing: the estimate that changed, the date that slipped, the fee that appeared, the pressure that worked. Every right above targets one of those specific failures.
We publish this for the same reason we publish the offer math: a standard you can print is a standard you can enforce. Hold every buyer you talk to against this list, including every buyer we connect you with. If someone else meets it with a better number, take their offer. That is not a bluff; a market where sellers demand these rights is the market we want to work in.
These rights apply to every seller we work with and to every buyer we connect. They do not expire, and they are not contingent on the size of the deal, the condition of the house, or how the conversation is going.
If the property is a fit, you may receive a written offer directly from an independent local buyer. Ask for the math attached; every right above is the published standard to hold it to. No fees to you, no obligation.
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