Clear answers before you decide what to do with your home.
Run the numbers on an offer you are holding, see what a sale would actually net you, and compare your options side by side. Every guide here is built from what we have learned buying and renovating real homes, and every comparison is sourced to what each company publishes and dated so you can check it. Use it all before you talk to anyone.
Five calculators, and a deliberate difference between them. One runs on your address; the rest run on numbers you already have and never ask what your house is worth.
- Equity worksheetBetaAdd up everything that clears at closing — mortgage, second lien, arrears, tax, HOA, liens — and see what would be left for you. No address, no valuation.
- What waiting costsBetaA listing may fetch more, and it also means months more of mortgage, tax, insurance and upkeep. See how much more a listing has to net you to leave you level.
- Repair deduction checkBetaThey took a number off for repairs. See it placed against sixteen renovations we priced and paid for, what those trades really cost, and the questions that turn a lump sum into a line-item list.
- Offer decoderBetaAlready holding a cash offer? Type in what the sheet says and see the true net, the real discount, and what the speed is costing you per day. No address, no valuation, no email to see the result.
- Net sheetEnter an address and see what a Zoom Casa sale would net you, line by line, before we ask for a way to contact you.
- Buy Before You Sell scenarioWorking out whether you can buy the next house before this one sells. Answers a handful of questions and routes you to someone who can price it.
We compete with the companies on these pages, and every claim about one of them links straight to that company’s own published page, with the date we checked it. Where a company publishes nothing on a point, these pages say so and leave the gap visible rather than filling it with a figure that merely sounds authoritative.
- Offerpad vs OpendoorFees, repairs, timelines and coverage, side by side — including the widely-repeated figures that neither company actually publishes.
- Opendoor: preliminary offer vs final offerWhy the number moves after the assessment, in Opendoor’s own words — and why there is no published “typical drop”, whatever else you have read.
- Mark Spain vs OpendoorTwo guaranteed-offer models that work in completely different ways: one is a brokerage shopping your house to a buyer network, the other buys it itself.
- Opendoor vs OrchardA cash buyer against a buy-before-you-sell brokerage — and what each one’s own pages say about the guarantee, the fees and who is actually on the other side.
- The iBuyer alternativeHow the iBuyer model works structurally, where it genuinely beats the alternatives, and how Cash Offer+ differs.
The decisions that come before choosing a company at all — whether to fix it up, whether a cash offer is safe, whether to buy first.
- What it costs to fix up a house before sellingSixteen completed renovations, priced line by line. Cost per square foot ran from $2.85 to $74.25 and the biggest house carried the smallest bill — which is why nobody should give you a number off a web form.
- Are cash offers legit?How to vet any cash buyer, including the questions that are inconvenient for us to answer. Useful even if you end up choosing somebody else.
- Should you renovate before you sell?The fix-it-up-first decision, and how to tell which repairs change the sale price from which ones only change the photographs.
- Seven upgrades worth doing before a saleWhere pre-sale money tends to come back, and where it does not.
- Selling a house as isWhat "as is" actually means to a buyer, what you still have to disclose, and what it costs you in price.
- Selling an inherited houseMultiple heirs, probate, a property nobody lives in — the complications a normal sale timeline does not account for.
- Do you pay taxes when you sell your house?The exclusion, the exceptions, and when to ask somebody with a licence.
- Everything else on the blogThe full archive — seller guides, agent playbooks, and how the programs work in practice.
The market pages and the partner network, for when the question is local.
- Sell my house fast — by marketThe markets where Zoom Casa has genuinely closed deals, each page carrying that market’s real transactions.
- Find an agentPartner agents who run Zoom Casa programs, by state.
- Find a lenderPartner loan officers, for the buy-before-you-sell side.
- Success storiesReal closings, with the towns and the numbers attached.
Net-sheet previews are illustrative; final offer terms are issued in writing on a term sheet. Program availability varies by state. Past results don't guarantee future outcomes — not all properties qualify.