In Fort Lauderdale, most 'we buy houses' ads are wholesalers who sell your contract, not buyers who close it. A principal cash buyer signs and closes in its own entity name. InTym Properties buys Fort Lauderdale houses as principal, with a written offer usually within 48 hours.
By InTym Properties · Founder: Ty Stevenson
Type "we buy houses Fort Lauderdale" into a search bar and two dozen companies make you the same three promises: cash, as-is, fast. What the ad never tells you is which kind of company is behind it, because three different business models wear the same slogan, and only one of them actually buys your house.
The short version: a principal cash buyer signs your contract and closes on it in its own entity name with its own funds. A wholesaler signs your contract and then sells the contract to an investor you never met, or cancels when no investor shows up. An iBuyer or national franchise is a real buyer on clean, easy-to-price houses and a very picky one on everything else. In Broward County, where the insurance crisis, the condo assessment wave, and a steady flow of probate properties produce complicated houses, most of the bandit-sign and postcard volume is the middle model.
Principal buyers are local and a little boring on purpose. The entity on the contract is the entity that wires the money at closing, the earnest money is real, the inspection window is short because they are spending their own funds, and the closing runs through a licensed title company you can call and verify. Their profit is a renovation-and-resale or rental margin, earned after closing, not a fee carved out of your price before it.
Wholesalers are contract flippers. They sign a purchase agreement with you, usually near the number an end investor will pay, then market your contract to a buyer list for an assignment fee that comes out of the spread. If no end buyer appears before the deadlines run out, the contingencies they wrote in for exactly this purpose let them cancel. Wholesaling is legal in Florida, and honest wholesalers exist. The problem is structural: their ability to close depends on a third party you will never talk to. The cash buyer vs. wholesaler breakdown walks the mechanics, and the iBuyer vs. wholesaler vs. cash buyer post puts all three models on one map.
iBuyers and franchises are real buyers with narrow buy boxes. They price well-maintained, easy-to-comp houses near retail and take their margin in service fees instead of a discount. On a Fort Lauderdale house with an unpermitted addition, a flood claim, or a probate file attached, they either decline or retrade late. The Opendoor vs. local buyer comparison shows where that math lands in Broward and Boise.
You do not have to take the pitch's word for anything. The paperwork names the model:
The vetting post runs the full checklist, including the renegotiation bait where the price drops after inspections.
One walkthrough, one written offer usually within 48 hours, one closing date you pick. The offer shows the formula: as-is value, minus repairs, minus holding and resale costs, minus margin, so you can question each line instead of trusting a number on a postcard. The how we calculate your offer post shows the exact lines, and the cash offer calculator runs the same shape of math on your own numbers in ten seconds.
Closing runs through a licensed Florida title company. In a normal Broward listing the seller also pays documentary stamps at $0.70 per $100 of sale price; the doc stamps post covers how that line works. A clean title can close in one to two weeks; the closing timeline post shows what each day looks like.
This is where the local buyer earns the adjective. Broward houses come with county-specific problems that a call-center buyer prices as fear or ignores entirely:
A buyer who has actually closed in this county prices these things as line items. A wholesaler prices them as reasons your contract needs an escape hatch.
InTym Properties compra casas en Fort Lauderdale y en todo el condado de Broward, en cualquier condición y sin reparaciones. La empresa es el comprador, no un intermediario: usted recibe una oferta por escrito normalmente dentro de 48 horas, con los números mostrados línea por línea, y usted elige la fecha de cierre. No hay comisiones ni honorarios. Para comprobar que un comprador es real, pida prueba de fondos a nombre de la entidad en el contrato y confirme la empresa en Sunbiz.org. Para una oferta escrita, llame o envíe un mensaje de texto al (650) 540-1854.
On houses in Broward County, InTym Properties is the principal: the entity that signs your contract is the entity that closes, with proof of funds on request and no assignment clause. On multifamily deals we may hold the contract and assign it to a vetted end buyer, and we disclose which structure applies to your deal in writing before you sign, because the same transparency this post tells you to demand applies to us. The we buy houses page lists what we buy and how the offer works, the Fort Lauderdale city page has the local numbers, and the verify us page lays out every check in this post run against us specifically.
Sorting through "we buy houses" offers in Fort Lauderdale and not sure which company is real? Call or text (650) 540-1854. InTym Properties will tell you straight whether your contract is a principal offer or an assignment play, and if our number is better you will have it in writing usually within 48 hours.
Three kinds of companies use the 'we buy houses' pitch in Broward County: principal cash buyers who sign and close in their own entity name, wholesalers who sign your contract and sell it to an end investor, and iBuyers or national franchises that buy only clean, easy-to-price houses. Most of the bandit-sign and postcard volume is wholesalers.
Read the contract. 'And/or assigns' after the buyer's name, a tiny earnest money deposit, a long inspection or due diligence window, and 'subject to partner approval' language all mean the signer plans to sell your contract, not close on it. Then verify the entity on Sunbiz.org and ask for proof of funds in that entity's name.
A written offer usually lands within 48 hours of the walkthrough, and a clean title can close in one to two weeks through a licensed Broward title company. Probate, liens, code violations, or open permits add time, and a straight buyer names which of those applies before you sign.
A principal cash buyer charges no commission and no fees: the buyer's margin is inside the offer price itself. In a traditional Broward listing the seller pays about 6% commission plus Florida documentary stamps at $0.70 per $100 of sale price, which is why the honest comparison is net proceeds, not gross price.
Sí. InTym Properties compra casas en Fort Lauderdale y en todo el condado de Broward en cualquier condición, sin reparaciones y sin comisiones. La oferta llega por escrito normalmente dentro de 48 horas y usted elige la fecha de cierre. Llame o envíe un mensaje de texto al (650) 540-1854.
Written offer usually within 48 hours, signed by InTym Properties, every number shown. No repairs, no fees, no obligation.
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