The Honest Write-Up
What it means, what it really costs you, why so many Florida homeowners choose it anyway — and when we’ll tell you to list with an agent instead.
The short answer
Selling off-market means selling directly to a buyer without listing it — no sign, no showings, no online listing. You agree on a price, a licensed Florida title company handles the closing, and you pick the date. It usually nets less than a top-dollar listing, but without commission, repairs or months of waiting — and we’ll tell you when listing is the better move.
Selling off-market means selling your house directly to a buyer without listing it. No sign in the yard, no online listing, no open houses, and no parade of strangers walking through your kitchen.
You and the buyer agree on a price. A licensed Florida title company handles the paperwork, clears the title, and pays off anything owed on the house. You close on the date you pick, and the money is wired to you or handed to you as a cashier’s check.
It is an ordinary, legal way to sell a home. Same deed, same title company, same closing statement as any listed sale — just without the marketing, the showings, and the months of waiting.
Here is the honest answer: our offer is a fair cash price for the house as it sits today. We buy with our own cash or alongside a vetted partner investor, and take on the repairs, the risk and the resale — and we show you exactly how our number accounts for that.
Why does that matter? Because the list price is not what you keep. Put the two paths side by side:
What usually comes out before you get paid
What you get in exchange for a lower number
Once you subtract everything on the left, the gap between a listing and a cash offer is usually smaller than people expect. Sometimes it is still big — and when it is, we will tell you.
“The right question is not ‘which gets the highest number.’ The right question is ‘which gets me to done, on my timeline, with the fewest things that can go wrong.’”
AL Cakici, owner
People sell off-market for all kinds of ordinary reasons. These are the ones we hear most:
We buy single-family homes, condos, townhomes, duplexes, small multi-family, and vacant land in Pinellas, Hillsborough and Pasco first — elsewhere in Florida case by case — in any condition.
Every offer is built the same way, and we walk you through it line by line.
We look at recent sales of similar homes nearby to estimate what your house would sell for after repairs.
The repairs and updates the house actually needs — based on what we see at the walkthrough, priced at what contractors really charge.
Taxes, insurance and utilities while the work gets done, plus the commissions and closing costs we pay when we sell it again.
We are a business, and we say so. The margin is what makes it worth taking on a house as-is, with everything that comes with it.
No fees come out of it later. If something we find changes our view, we sit down and explain it. We don’t use the inspection period to squeeze the price at the last minute.
A cash sale is not automatically better. Neither is a listing. Here is how we think about it.
If most of these are true, a listing will almost certainly net you more than we would offer. We will tell you so, straight.
We would rather be the people who gave you honest advice than the people who bought a house that should have been listed. If a listing is your better move, we’ll say so — even though it means we don’t buy it.
HomeSellerCashOffer is a brand of Tampete Homes LLC, owned by AL Cakici in St. Petersburg. You can verify us in the public record in a few minutes:
Selling directly to a buyer without listing it: no sign, no online listing, no showings. A licensed Florida title company still handles the paperwork, works to clear the title and pays off what’s owed from the proceeds; closing is typically 7–21 days out, or on your date.
Usually, yes — but the list price isn’t what you keep. After commission, repairs, carrying costs and fall-through risk, the gap is often smaller than people expect, and we show you our math line by line.
When the house is in good condition, you have time, and you want the highest possible price. We’ll tell you when that’s the better move.
We buy houses for cash across Tampa Bay: St. Petersburg, Tampa, Clearwater, Largo, Pinellas Park, Brandon and Pasco County.
Tell us about the house in about 60 seconds. You’ll get a fair, no-obligation cash offer — and a straight answer if listing would serve you better.
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