The Cash Offer Guide

Walk into the appointment knowing what each cash offer would really pay you.

  • Your number and your date, written down before anyone makes you an offer.
  • Five kinds of cash buyer told apart, and how each one gets paid.
  • The program read as a contract: the clock, the exit, the published fees.
  • The questions that stop a bad offer, taken from five documented cases.

One PDF, in your inbox the moment you buy.

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A page from Chapter 1 of the guide, comparing the iBuyer and the local investor.
The cover of The Cash Offer Guide.

$30

Texas state and local sales and use tax is included in the sales price.

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About 20 minutes to read

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The appointment is where the numbers get decided

Almost every bad outcome in this guide started the same way. The seller knew what they wanted the price to be, and had never written down what they needed to keep. A cash buyer will always talk to you about price. Price is the easiest number to move and the least useful one to compare. Two offers with the same price can be forty thousand dollars apart by the time they close.

So before anything else, the guide asks you to write down two things: the number you need to walk away with, and the date you need to be out.

What’s inside

One PDF, delivered by email the moment you buy.

  • Three chapters. Market options, how the program works, and horror stories.
  • Five kinds of cash buyer, named and compared: what each one is for, what it wants, and how it gets paid.
  • Five documented cases, each with a public source, a date, and the one question that would have stopped it.
  • Three things to bring to the appointment, on the last page.
  • About twenty minutes of reading, start to finish.
  • Every number names its public source and its date, so you can check any of it yourself.
What it covers

Three chapters, and every number in them is sourced.

Chapter 1 — Market options

Five real ways to turn your house into money: the iBuyer, the local investor, the wholesaler, the Orchard Cash Offer Marketplace, and the traditional listing. What each one is for, what it wants, and how it gets paid. Once you know how a buyer gets paid, their behaviour stops being confusing.

Chapter 2 — How it works

The program read as a contract. What you sign and when the clock starts. The 14 days. The exit that costs you nothing. Orchard’s published fees, quoted exactly and dated, and what those fees do not cover.

Chapter 3 — Horror stories

Five documented cases: Opendoor, MV Realty, HomeVestors, a Kansas wholesale action, and EasyKnock. Every one has a public source, a date, the trap it used, and the question the seller should have asked.

This guide is for sellers who…

  • …have an appointment coming up and would rather not spend it on definitions.
  • …know what they want the price to be, but have never written down what they need to keep.
  • …have a cash offer in hand and nothing to compare it against.
  • …were shown a headline number and want to know what shrinks it before closing.
  • …keep taking calls from buyers they cannot tell apart.
  • …want to know what gets recorded against the house when they sign something.
  • …have a date they must be out by, and do not want that date used against them.
  • …have someone at the kitchen table asking what the plan is, and want an answer with numbers in it.

Why I wrote it

I wrote this because of the part of the appointment I never enjoyed. I would sit down at the kitchen table, and the first twenty minutes went to explaining what a wholesaler is, or why the offer with the bigger number nets less than the one next to it. Fair questions. Wrong time to be asking them.

In the last two years, my team and I have met with more than 3,000 sellers in appointments like yours. The ones that went well had a thing in common. The seller had already done the reading, so we spent the hour on their house and their timing instead of on vocabulary.

This is the guide I wish every one of them had on the table before I walked in. Read it, write down your number and your date, and bring me your questions.

— Ry Colston

All five cases in Chapter 3 are public. Every one names its source and its date, so none of it rests on a story somebody told me.

Get the guide

$30

Texas state and local sales and use tax is included in the sales price.

If it is not useful, reply to the delivery email and I refund it.

About 20 minutes to read

Booked with Orchard? Your code in the email makes it free.

Already booked with Orchard? Read it before we meet and bring it with you.

Not booked yet? The appointment is where the numbers get decided. Read it before you sit down at one.

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$30

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