For more than 20 years I've been writing cash checks for houses other people walked away from. Foreclosure, probate, divorce, tax sale, hoarder, fire-damaged, vacant — if it's a single-family home in the United States, we've probably bought one like it.
Most "we buy houses" companies are franchises. The person who sees your house isn't the person making the offer, the offer comes from a software model in a different state, and the closing gets handed to a wholesale operator who tries to flip the contract before the inspection period ends. The seller ends up renegotiated, delayed, or dropped — usually all three.
I built BuyHousesInCash to be the opposite. We buy with our own funds. We close at a real title company in your county. We don't reassign contracts. And the number we offer is the number you net at closing, because we pay every fee on both sides of the transaction.
Every blog post, calculator explainer, and state guide on this site is written or reviewed by me personally. I've worked through every page myself because I want sellers to understand exactly how cash offers are calculated, what their state's foreclosure timeline really looks like, and what they're actually trading when they take a cash offer versus listing on the MLS.
I write to the same standard I'd use for a seller sitting at my kitchen table: explain the math, name the tradeoffs, don't dress up the numbers. The 70% rule is in the open on this site because every legitimate cash buyer uses it — I want sellers to be able to verify any offer they receive (including ours) against the same formula. The foreclosure timeline tool shows real statutes and real days, not marketing fluff. The net-proceeds comparator itemizes every fee on both paths, including the ones the realtor doesn't quote.
If something on this site is wrong, I want to know. Email me directly and I'll fix it personally.
Outside of BuyHousesInCash I spend time with my family, follow Notre Dame football, and try to keep up with the dog. I'm based in the U.S. and travel only when a closing requires it — everything else gets handled at a local title company in your county.
If you have a specific property situation, a question about an offer, or a correction to anything on this site, the fastest way to reach me is email.