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Terms of service

These terms govern your use of beatuphomebuyer.com, operated by Beat Up Home Buyer, LLC. By using the site, submitting an address, or requesting an offer, you agree to them.

What we do

We buy beat-up houses with cash, directly from the people who own them. We pay a bounty to whoever sent us the address of a house we end up buying.

We are a direct cash buyer. We are not a real estate brokerage, and nothing on this site is brokerage, legal, tax, or financial advice.

What a bounty is

A bounty is a finder's payment for an address. That is the whole transaction, and the limits on it are the point:

  • You send a public address. Nothing else is asked of you, and nothing else is paid for.
  • You do not negotiate, solicit, show, list, or represent anybody — not us, not the owner, not a buyer. You never speak to the owner at all. Everything after the address is ours: finding them, contacting them, offering, and closing.
  • You are not our agent, employee, partner, or representative, and you can't hold yourself out as one.

If a submission ever amounts to more than handing us a public address, it is outside these terms and outside what we pay for.

Submitting a house you don't own

You may send us the address of a property you have no connection to. You don't have to own it, know the owner, or have permission from anyone. A street address is public information — it is written on the house, printed on the parcel map, and sitting in the county records.

The limits, and they are hard limits:

  • Do not trespass.Stay on the street or the sidewalk. Don't enter a yard, a driveway, an outbuilding, or a house — occupied or not.
  • Photos from a public vantage point only.If you had to step onto the property to take it, don't send it. Only send photos you took yourself.
  • Do not contact, approach, or harass the owner. Not a knock, not a note, not a phone call, not a message to their cousin. That is our job, and doing it yourself can cost you the bounty. These are real people, often in a bad stretch, and they hear from us once, politely, in writing.
  • Send houses you actually spotted.Scraping, bulk-uploading lists, or running automated tools against us isn't spotting. We'll decline them.
  • Tell us the truth as far as you know it. Don't invent an address, and don't send one to cause somebody trouble.

Getting paid

  • You are paid only if we close. Not for submitting. Not when we find the owner. Not when they talk to us. Not on a contract that falls apart — and plenty of them do. Money changes hands when the house does, and not before.
  • If we buy it, your bounty is 1% of the final purchase price, paid at closing.
  • The first valid submission of an address wins. Every submission is timestamped when it lands. A later submission of the same address is a duplicate and earns nothing, no matter who sends it or how good the house turns out to be.
  • A bounty is reportable income. If we pay you more than $600 in a calendar year we'll issue a 1099, and we'll need a W-9 from you before we can pay anything at all. What you owe on it is between you and the tax authorities.
  • We may decline any submission, for any reason, without explaining ourselves. We may also stop paying bounties entirely — but never on a bounty already earned on a house we have closed.

If you hold a real estate licence

Talk to your broker before you submit anything. Brokers and state regulators have rules about referral compensation, and a licensee can be held to them even when they're acting on their own time. We can't clear that for you and we won't pretend to. Ask first.

Get your own advice

We wrote these terms to describe the deal plainly: you supply a public address, you perform no brokerage activity of any kind, and we pay you only if we close. Rules about paying for real estate leads vary by state and they change.

If any of this matters to your situation, ask a lawyer, an accountant, or your broker — your own, not ours. Nothing on this page is legal or tax advice, and we are not responsible for how the rules where you live apply to you.

Offers

Any offer we make is free and carries no obligation. Offers are based on the information and photos available to us and may be adjusted or withdrawn if that information turns out to be materially inaccurate or the property's condition differs from what was described. An offer becomes binding only when both parties sign a written purchase agreement.

If the house is yours, say so on the form. You'll get a cash offer instead of a bounty — you can't collect a finder's fee on your own house.

Your submissions

You give us permission to use what you send — the address, your notes, and any photos — to evaluate the property, identify and contact the owner, make an offer, and buy the house. You confirm that anything you send was obtained lawfully and from a public vantage point, and that it is accurate to the best of your knowledge. We may keep a record of your submission whether or not it turns into anything.

Accounts

Signing in uses one-time email codes. You're responsible for keeping access to your email account secure. One account per person.

Limitation of liability

The site is provided as-is. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Beat Up Home Buyer, LLC is not liable for indirect or consequential damages arising from your use of the site — including any bounty you expected and did not receive because a deal died, an address was already claimed, or we declined it. Our total liability for any claim related to the site is limited to $100, and never limits a bounty properly earned on a house we actually closed.

Changes

We may update these terms; the current version always lives at this page. The terms that apply to a bounty are the ones in force when you submitted it. Questions? Email bounties@beatuphomebuyer.com.

Last updated: July 2026