What's My House Worth? A Fast DIY Check Before You Call Anyone

Pull Comps Yourself in Under 15 Minutes

Most county property appraiser or recorder offices maintain public, searchable records of recent home sales, and many post them online free of charge. Search your county's site for recent sales within a half mile or so of your address, filtering for homes with a similar bedroom and bathroom count and roughly similar square footage.

That's the same raw data automated estimators use, just without the algorithm doing the comparison for you. It takes longer than typing an address into a website, but it's free and it's coming straight from the source.

Price Per Square Foot Is a Starting Point, Not an Answer

Once you've got a few comparable sales, divide each sale price by its square footage to get a rough price-per-square-foot figure, then apply that rate to your own house's square footage. It's a fast way to sanity-check a number.

It's also a blunt tool. A renovated kitchen, a new roof, or a finished basement can push a house well above the neighborhood's average rate, while deferred maintenance can pull it well below. Price per square foot gets you in the right neighborhood of a number. It doesn't account for what's actually different about your specific house.

Where DIY Comps Fall Apart

Not every recorded sale is a clean, arm's-length transaction between a willing buyer and willing seller. Sales between family members, foreclosure sales, and distressed sales can all show up in public records at prices well below open-market value, and including them in your comparison will drag your estimate down artificially.

DIY research also can't adjust for condition the way a person standing in your kitchen can. It's a solid free first step. It's not a substitute for an actual look at your specific house.

Replace the Guesswork With Two Offers You Can Compare

Cash Flow Deals reviews your house so you can compare the Fast Cash Offer, where we buy your house as-is and close, with the Premium Cash Offer, where a pre-approved FHA or conventional buyer we already have, ready to go, pays more and buys directly from you. You choose.

We cover repair costs, and we figure out a way, so nothing comes out of your pocket. With Premium, only what the buyer's lender requires gets fixed; we arrange to cover that work and settle the costs from the sale proceeds, from our share. With Fast Cash, you sell as-is without making repairs.

For either offer, the number is agreed before any work starts, and it changes only if you agree. The one exception: if something structural surfaces that was not visible or disclosed before we signed — foundation issues, hidden moisture, old wiring, cast-iron drain failure — we re-cost it and bring the number back to you. You decide. You can walk away. We disclose what we know at offer time so this almost never happens.

If the buyer's loan falls through, that is our problem, not yours, and you can still take the Fast Cash Offer at its own number instead of the Premium Cash Offer.

Do the DIY comps if you're curious. When you want numbers that account for your specific house, compare your two reviewed offers and choose what works for you.