Effective Date: October 9, 2026
Last Updated: October 9, 2026
These Terms and Conditions (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of ibuyhouseswithfiredamageseattle.com (the “Website”) and services offered through the Website by I Buy Houses With Fire Damage Seattle (“we,” “us,” or “our”).
By accessing the Website, submitting property information, requesting a cash offer, or otherwise interacting with our services, you agree to these Terms and acknowledge our Privacy Policy.
1. Purpose of the Website
The Website allows property owners and authorized representatives to submit information concerning fire-damaged, smoke-damaged, water-damaged, structurally damaged, distressed, vacant, inherited, probate, foreclosure, lien-affected, tenant-occupied, substantially unrepaired, and other residential or investment real estate.
Depending on the transaction, we may evaluate property, seek to purchase it directly, make a potential cash offer, conduct due diligence, coordinate cleanout where agreed, enter a purchase agreement, acquire contractual or equitable rights, assign contractual rights where permitted, work with licensed Washington real estate professionals where required, or decline the opportunity.
Nothing displayed on the Website is itself a binding offer to purchase real estate.
2. Our Role
The Website presently markets the business principally as a direct cash purchaser of fire-damaged real estate.
Depending on a transaction, we may act as a principal purchaser, investor, property-acquisition business, contract purchaser, holder of contractual or equitable rights, co-investor, affiliate of another purchaser, or another lawful transaction participant.
Unless separately established, we do not act as your real estate broker, seller’s agent, attorney, accountant, tax adviser, financial adviser, insurance adviser, public adjuster, contractor, engineer, appraiser, fiduciary, housing counselor, mortgage broker, mortgage lender, mortgage servicer, foreclosure consultant, distressed-home consultant, or debt-relief provider.
3. Direct Purchase Model
Where we seek to purchase property for our own account, our economic interests may differ from the seller’s interests.
We may seek a price accounting for property condition, repair expenses, cleanup expenses, holding costs, closing costs, risk, and expected investment return.
Unless separately agreed, we negotiate for ourselves rather than as the seller’s representative.
4. No Obligation to Sell
Submitting information or requesting an offer does not obligate you to sell.
A Website inquiry is not a purchase agreement.
You may reject an offer unless and until you execute a legally enforceable transaction agreement, subject to applicable cancellation or rescission rights.
5. No Obligation to Purchase
Submitting information does not require us to inspect the property, make an offer, maintain a prior offer, continue negotiations, purchase the property, or complete a transaction.
6. Eligibility and Authority
By using the Website or submitting property information, you represent that you are at least 18 years old, possess legal capacity, provide materially accurate information to the best of your knowledge, own the property or have authority to communicate concerning it, and use the Website lawfully.
Submission by one co-owner does not necessarily authorize that person to bind every owner.
7. Agents, Wholesalers, and Representatives
A person submitting information as an agent, wholesaler, contract holder, attorney-in-fact, trustee, personal representative, or other representative is responsible for having lawful authority.
Nothing on the Website authorizes unlicensed brokerage, unauthorized marketing of another person’s property, false claims of ownership, unauthorized disclosure of information, or violation of an existing agreement.
8. Property Research
We may research ownership, deeds, mortgages and deeds of trust, liens, judgments, taxes, foreclosure information, property condition, fire and smoke damage, structural condition, roofs and foundations, electrical and plumbing systems, permits, code enforcement, insurance claims, tenancy, probate, comparable sales, and other information relevant to a potential transaction.
9. Property Assessments
An acquisition evaluation may include visual inspection, photographs, contractor review, structural evaluation, repair estimates, environmental review, permit and code research, title review, tenant review, insurance review, and other due diligence.
An evaluation conducted for our acquisition purposes is not automatically an inspection or professional report performed for the seller’s benefit and is not a warranty concerning property condition.
10. Preliminary Offers
Any preliminary cash offer, estimated offer, price range, valuation, repair estimate, or similar statement is non-binding unless incorporated into an enforceable written transaction agreement.
An offer may change following due diligence.
11. Offer Methodology
Potential offers may consider current property condition, fire and smoke damage, structural damage, after-repair value, comparable sales, estimated repairs, cleanout, permit expenses, tenant issues, holding expenses, taxes, insurance, closing costs, market conditions, risk, and expected investment return.
No particular offer or valuation method is guaranteed.
12. Binding Transactions
A binding real estate transaction arises only when the applicable parties execute legally enforceable transaction documents.
Closing may depend on ownership, title, mortgages, liens, judgments, taxes, seller disclosures, due diligence, property access, probate, foreclosure status, insurance, tenant rights, Seattle permits or orders, buyer funding, escrow, and other legal or contractual conditions.
13. Washington Real Property Transfer Disclosure Statement
Washington generally requires the seller of covered improved residential property to provide a completed statutory Real Property Transfer Disclosure Statement, commonly called Form 17, unless the transaction is exempt or the buyer lawfully waives receipt to the extent permitted by law.
A direct cash or investor sale is not automatically exempt because the buyer is an investor, the property is sold as-is, no listing agent participates, or the parties intend to close quickly.
14. Form 17 Timing
For a covered improved-residential transaction, the completed disclosure generally must be delivered no later than five business days after mutual acceptance of the written purchase agreement, unless otherwise agreed.
15. Buyer Rescission Period
Unless otherwise agreed in writing as permitted by law, the buyer generally has three business days after delivery of Form 17 to accept the disclosure or rescind the purchase agreement through a separately signed written rescission.
16. Fire Damage Is Expressly Addressed
Washington Form 17 expressly asks whether the seller knows of material damage to the property from fire, along with certain other causes of damage.
Fire damage is therefore a specific statutory disclosure item rather than merely a generic material-condition issue.
17. Fire Damage Is in the Environmental Section
The statutory fire-damage question appears in Form 17’s Environmental section.
Washington law permits waiver of the disclosure statement in some circumstances, but where the answer to any Environmental question would be “yes,” the buyer may not waive receipt of the Environmental section.
Accordingly, where known material fire damage requires a “yes” response, the transaction should not rely on a blanket Form 17 waiver to eliminate that section.
18. Actual Knowledge
The seller’s statutory answers are generally based on the seller’s actual knowledge when the disclosure is completed.
A seller should answer accurately and provide required explanations.
The disclosure does not itself require the seller to guarantee unknown conditions.
19. Form 17 Is Not a Warranty
Form 17 is a disclosure document and generally is not itself a warranty or a substitute for professional inspection.
It also is not automatically part of the purchase agreement merely because it is delivered.
Contractual representations and remedies remain governed by the transaction documents and applicable law.
20. Seller Disclosure Exemptions
Washington provides exemptions for certain transfers, including qualifying foreclosures, deeds in lieu, specified family transfers, dissolution-related transfers, certain buyers with recent ownership interests, certain less-than-fee-simple interests, transfers by personal representatives of estates, transfers by bankruptcy trustees, and qualifying buyer waivers.
An exemption should be verified for the actual transaction.
21. Environmental Section Waiver Limitation
A buyer may waive the seller disclosure statement in some transactions.
However, the Environmental section cannot be waived where the answer to any question in that section would be “yes.”
Because material fire damage is expressly included in that section, this limitation deserves specific review on every burned property.
22. Amendments Before Closing
If, after completing Form 17, the seller learns from a source other than the buyer or people acting for the buyer of additional information or an adverse change making an answer inaccurate, the seller generally must amend the disclosure.
An amendment is not required if the seller takes corrective action restoring the accuracy of the disclosure or correcting the adverse condition at least three business days before closing.
23. Buyer Rights After Amendment
Where an amended disclosure is required, the buyer generally has three business days after receiving it to accept the amendment or rescind the transaction.
This may be especially important where fire-damaged property experiences additional structural deterioration, water intrusion, electrical damage, mold, new code findings, or other adverse changes before closing.
24. January 1, 2027 Form Change
Washington amended the statutory seller-disclosure form in 2026.
A revised version becomes effective January 1, 2027.
Transactions entered into after that date should use the then-current statutory Form 17 and should not rely solely on the October 2026 version.
25. No Universal Fire-Document Package
Washington does not impose one universal rule requiring every seller automatically to provide every fire-department report, insurance claim file, adjuster report, contractor invoice, engineering report, photograph, repair estimate, permit, remediation record, or inspection report to every buyer.
Particular records may nevertheless be required by contract, useful to explain Form 17, requested during due diligence, or required by insurers, lenders, Seattle authorities, escrow providers, or other law.
26. As-Is Transactions
“As-is” may mean the buyer agrees not to require the seller to repair the property.
It does not automatically eliminate Form 17, the Environmental section, fraud or misrepresentation rules, contractual representations, federal disclosure obligations, tenant protections, distressed-home protections, title obligations, governmental orders, or other non-waivable rights.
27. No Universal Requirement to Repair Before Sale
Washington does not impose one statewide rule requiring every fire-damaged house to be fully repaired before transfer.
A damaged property may potentially be sold as-is.
Separate building codes, unsafe-building orders, permits, fire requirements, utility restrictions, environmental requirements, occupancy restrictions, insurance obligations, and contractual provisions may still apply.
28. Seattle Emergency Repair Permits
Seattle provides an Emergency Repair Permit process for a building with structural damage caused by an emergency.
The City states that the permit covers only structural damage caused by the emergency and that more extensive repairs require further review.
A qualifying application requires supporting project materials and a letter from a structural or geotechnical engineer establishing the emergency.
29. Emergency Permit Is Limited
An emergency repair permit should not be treated as authorization for all restoration.
Additional structural, electrical, plumbing, mechanical, street-use, land-use, environmental, or other permits may be required.
30. Seattle Permit Requirements
Seattle generally requires permits for work affecting load-bearing supports, the building envelope, egress, light, ventilation, or fire resistance regardless of the monetary value of the project.
Certain limited minor repairs may be exempt.
Fire restoration should therefore be reviewed based on the actual repair scope.
31. Unsafe and Vacated Buildings
A fire-damaged property may be subject to City requirements concerning unsafe conditions, restricted occupancy, emergency stabilization, closure, repair, or demolition.
A sale does not automatically cancel an existing City order or legalize an unsafe condition.
32. Cleanup and Restoration
Any demolition, debris removal, construction, asbestos work, lead-related work, hazardous-material handling, environmental remediation, or other regulated service must comply with applicable licensing, environmental, worker-safety, disposal, permit, and other requirements.
Nothing in these Terms represents that we personally perform regulated contractor services unless lawfully authorized.
33. Inspections and Due Diligence
A seller’s ability to avoid making repairs does not prevent us from conducting our own due diligence where permitted by the transaction documents.
Due diligence may include visual inspection, structural evaluation, repair estimates, fire-damage assessment, environmental review, mold review, permit research, code research, title review, tenant review, insurance review, and other investigation.
34. Fast Offer and Closing Claims
Website statements concerning immediate offers, rapid closing, streamlined sales, no repairs, no inspections, or similar benefits describe potential transaction structures and are not guarantees.
Actual timing may depend on title, liens, Form 17, statutory rescission periods, probate, foreclosure, insurance, tenants, property access, Seattle requirements, funding, and escrow.
35. Fair or Competitive Offer Claims
Website descriptions of offers as “fair,” “competitive,” reflecting “true market value,” or similar language describe marketing objectives rather than guarantees.
An investor offer may account for repairs, risk, holding expenses, transaction expenses, and investment return.
The executed purchase agreement controls the price.
36. No Agent Commissions
Where a seller completes a genuine direct transaction without a listing broker, a conventional listing-agent commission may not apply.
If a Washington real estate licensee participates, compensation and professional obligations will be governed by applicable services agreements, agency law, transaction documents, and Washington law.
37. Washington Real Estate Licensing
Washington defines regulated real estate brokerage services to include specified activities offered or rendered directly or indirectly to another or on behalf of another for compensation or expected compensation.
The actual relationship and conduct control.
Nothing on the Website authorizes unlicensed brokerage.
38. Principal Purchaser Exemption
Washington’s licensing statute generally exempts a person purchasing or disposing of property for that person’s own account, or for a group of which the person is a member, along with qualifying employees.
A genuine direct principal purchaser is therefore differently situated from someone providing brokerage services for another.
39. Wholesaling and Contract Assignments
As of October 9, 2026, Washington does not have a separate comprehensive residential-wholesaler registration and seller-cancellation statute comparable to the specialized regimes enacted in some other states.
Existing contract and real estate licensing law still apply.
40. Contract Holder Versus Broker
Relevant factors can include whether the person genuinely contracted as principal, whether an enforceable contractual interest exists, whether assignment is permitted, what is being marketed, whether another person’s property is being marketed, whether the contract holder falsely claims title, whether negotiations occur for another, and whether compensation is received for brokerage-type services.
41. Contractual Interest Is Not Legal Title
Holding a purchase agreement, option, assignment right, or equitable interest is different from holding legal title.
A contract holder should not represent that it is the deed owner or is conveying title where it is merely assigning contractual rights.
42. Assignment Depends on Contract and Law
Whether a purchase agreement is assignable depends on the agreement, anti-assignment language, required consents, Washington contract law, licensing requirements, distressed-property protections, and other applicable law.
Nothing on the Website guarantees assignability.
43. Licensed Brokerage Relationships
Where a licensed Washington real estate firm provides brokerage services, separate requirements may apply concerning services agreements, agency, compensation, disclosures, conflicts, professional duties, and transaction documentation.
A direct purchaser should not represent itself as the seller’s broker unless a valid brokerage relationship exists.
44. Foreclosure and Financial Distress
The Website may attract homeowners facing delinquency, default, foreclosure, tax loss, or other financial hardship.
We are not your lender, mortgage servicer, attorney, financial adviser, mortgage broker, loan-modification provider, housing counselor, foreclosure consultant, or distressed-home consultant unless a separately compliant relationship expressly establishes otherwise.
45. Washington Distressed Property Conveyances Act
Washington’s Distressed Property Conveyances Act, Chapter 61.34 RCW, regulates certain dealings with distressed homeowners.
A distressed home can include a dwelling in danger of foreclosure, already in foreclosure, or at risk of loss due to nonpayment of taxes.
46. Ordinary Sale Versus Distressed Home Conveyance
Not every ordinary permanent sale by a financially distressed homeowner is automatically a statutory distressed-home conveyance.
A covered distressed-home conveyance generally involves the homeowner transferring an interest to a purchaser, continuing to occupy the home, and receiving or being promised an option, right, or interest allowing the homeowner to repurchase, regain an interest, or participate in later resale proceeds.
Sale-leaseback and repurchase arrangements therefore require special care.
47. Distressed-Home Consulting
Washington can regulate a person as a distressed-home consultant where the person contacts a distressed homeowner and represents that services will stop or postpone foreclosure, obtain forbearance or reinstatement, obtain refinancing, save the residence, reduce foreclosure-related credit harm, arrange continued occupancy or repurchase, or provide other covered services.
A direct purchaser should not portray itself as a foreclosure adviser unless it separately complies with that role.
48. Purchase Close to Foreclosure Sale
The statutory definition of distressed-home consultant can include causing a purchase contract to be executed or closed within 20 days of an advertised or docketed foreclosure sale, unless the distressed homeowner has the representation specified by Washington law.
Transactions occurring close to a scheduled foreclosure sale therefore require specific review.
49. Distressed-Home Consulting Agreement
Where a covered consulting relationship exists, the agreement generally must be written, use required formatting, use the language principally used to describe the services, fully disclose services and compensation, identify required contact information, contain prescribed warnings, and be provided to the homeowner at execution.
50. Fiduciary Duties of Covered Consultants
A statutory distressed-home consultant has a fiduciary relationship with the distressed homeowner and must act in the homeowner’s best interest, disclose material facts, use reasonable care, and account for money or property received.
A principal buyer should therefore avoid inadvertently presenting itself as the homeowner’s consultant while negotiating for its own investment interests.
51. Distressed-Home Reconveyance
A covered distressed-home reconveyance requires a compliant written agreement entered before execution of any conveyance instrument.
The agreement must contain specified information about consideration, possession, any lease or repurchase arrangement, retained interests, and statutory cancellation rights.
52. Five-Business-Day Cancellation Right
For a covered distressed-home purchaser transaction, the distressed homeowner generally may cancel until the earlier of:
- Midnight of the fifth business day after signing a compliant contract; or
- 8:00 a.m. on the last day of the applicable redemption period.
Nothing in these Website Terms limits that right.
53. Cancellation Forms
Covered distressed-home-purchase contracts must include conspicuous statutory cancellation language and duplicate cancellation forms.
The five-business-day period does not begin until all parties have executed the agreement and the purchaser has complied with the statutory notice requirements.
54. Restrictions Before Cancellation Expires
A covered distressed-home purchaser generally may not obtain or induce execution of conveyance documents, record transaction documents, or transfer or encumber the interest during the statutory cancellation period.
55. Ability-to-Pay Requirement
For a covered distressed-home reconveyance, the purchaser generally must verify and be able to demonstrate the homeowner’s reasonable ability to pay for the promised reconveyance.
Lease-with-option arrangements are subject to additional payment-ability analysis.
56. 82% Fair-Market-Value Protection
Where title is not ultimately reconveyed to the distressed homeowner, Washington generally requires a covered distressed-home purchaser to ensure that the homeowner receives qualifying consideration equal to at least 82% of the property’s fair market value, subject to the detailed statutory calculation.
This rule applies to covered reconveyance arrangements, not automatically to every ordinary arm’s-length cash purchase.
57. Independent Closing and Liens
Covered distressed-home conveyances are subject to additional restrictions, including requirements concerning existing liens and closing before an independent third party authorized to conduct Washington real estate closings.
58. No Misleading “Save Your Home” Claims
A covered distressed-home purchaser may not falsely represent that it acts as the homeowner’s adviser or consultant, acts on the homeowner’s behalf, or is helping the homeowner save the property where prohibited by Chapter 61.34.
59. No Mandatory Arbitration for Chapter 61.34 Claims
Washington law provides that a contract provision purporting to require arbitration of a dispute arising under the Distressed Property Conveyances Act is void at the distressed homeowner’s option.
These Website Terms therefore do not impose mandatory arbitration.
60. Requesting an Offer Does Not Stop Foreclosure
Submitting a Website inquiry, receiving an offer, or negotiating a purchase does not automatically stop a trustee sale, extend a foreclosure deadline, cure default, reinstate a mortgage, modify a loan, create forbearance, or require a lender or servicer to delay enforcement.
Homeowners facing foreclosure should independently determine applicable deadlines.
61. No Foreclosure-Relief Guarantees
Unless separately authorized and legally qualified, we do not represent that we act for your lender or servicer, guarantee foreclosure will stop, guarantee refinancing or modification, advise you to stop communicating with your lender, or represent that selling to us is your only option.
62. Seattle Tenant-Occupied Properties
Sale of Seattle rental property generally does not itself terminate an existing tenancy.
A buyer should evaluate leases, month-to-month tenancies, Seattle just-cause protections, security deposits, rental-registration status, code-enforcement matters, relocation obligations, and other applicable tenant protections.
63. Rental Registration and Inspection Ordinance
With limited exceptions, Seattle requires rental housing to be registered under the Rental Registration and Inspection Ordinance (“RRIO”).
Rental housing is also subject to periodic inspection.
A purchaser acquiring rental property should determine the property’s registration and compliance status.
64. RRIO and New Ownership
A new owner may need to claim or update the registered property, owner information, tenant repair contacts, and other RRIO information.
A sale or fire does not automatically eliminate registration or inspection obligations.
65. Seattle Notice of Intent to Sell
Seattle has a separate Notice of Intent to Sell requirement for certain multifamily residential rental property.
It generally applies where a building contains at least two rental units and at least one unit is rented at a level affordable to a household earning 80% or less of Area Median Income under the City’s applicable standards.
66. Ninety-Day Notice Before Listing
For a covered property, the owner generally must complete required City and tenant notification steps no later than 90 days before listing the property for sale.
67. Off-Market Cash Offers
Seattle’s rule expressly addresses off-market purchase offers.
If an owner receives an offer before listing or advertising the building for sale and intends to accept the offer, the owner generally must provide the required notices and declaration within two days after receiving the offer.
This rule can directly affect an off-market cash acquisition.
68. Intent-to-Sell Notice Does Not Terminate Tenancy
The Notice of Intent to Sell does not itself terminate a tenant’s lease or other occupancy rights.
Any termination or displacement must comply with applicable Washington and Seattle law.
69. Seattle Tenant Relocation Assistance
Seattle’s Tenant Relocation Assistance Ordinance can apply where renters are displaced by demolition, substantial renovation, change of use, or removal of qualifying rent or income restrictions.
A covered owner or developer can be required to obtain a Tenant Relocation License and comply with notice and payment procedures.
70. Current Relocation Assistance
As of October 9, 2026, Seattle’s current published TRAO guidance provides relocation assistance to qualifying low-income tenants under the City’s applicable payment schedule.
Because amounts can be adjusted periodically, transaction staff should use the amount current when the displacement occurs rather than hard-coding an older dollar figure into a contract.
71. Emergency Vacate Orders
Seattle separately provides relocation protections where a rental unit is ordered vacated and closed because of an emergency condition and applicable legal requirements are satisfied.
Fire-related displacement therefore should not automatically be treated as eliminating tenant claims or relocation obligations.
72. Just Cause
Seattle maintains just-cause protections for qualifying residential tenants.
Applicable rights generally cannot be waived through a rental agreement.
A purchaser should not assume that acquisition of the building provides an unrestricted right to remove existing occupants.
73. Redevelopment and Major Repair
If the acquisition plan involves demolition, substantial rehabilitation, change of use, or other development requiring displacement, tenant relocation and permit requirements should be evaluated before the investment assumes vacant possession.
74. Insurance Claims and Fire-Damage Proceeds
A fire-damaged property may involve an open or completed insurance claim.
We do not act as your insurer, insurance producer, public adjuster, insurance attorney, or insurance adviser unless a separate legally compliant relationship expressly establishes otherwise.
75. Pending Insurance Claims
If a property is sold while an insurance claim remains pending, the transaction documents should address rights concerning existing proceeds, supplemental proceeds, recoverable depreciation, future payments, repairs, salvage, and other benefits.
76. Insurance Rights Do Not Automatically Transfer
The sale of real estate does not automatically transfer the seller’s insurance policy, pending claim, insurance proceeds, recoverable depreciation, or other insurance rights.
Those issues depend on policy language, applicable law, mortgagee rights, insurer requirements, and transaction documents.
77. Public Adjusting
Nothing on the Website constitutes public-adjusting services.
A seller seeking assistance negotiating an insurance claim should work with an appropriately licensed professional or attorney where required.
78. Probate, Estate, Trust, and Inherited Property
Submitting inherited, probate, estate, or trust property does not itself establish legal authority to sell.
A transaction may require personal-representative authority, trustee authority, court documentation, participation of heirs or beneficiaries, appropriate deeds, or other evidence of authority.
79. Federal Lead-Based Paint Disclosure
Federal lead-based-paint disclosure requirements may apply to qualifying residential housing built before 1978.
Nothing on the Website replaces applicable federal obligations.
80. Common-Interest Communities
If property is located in a condominium or other qualifying community association, separate Washington association-document, assessment, insurance, reserve, restriction, or disclosure requirements may apply.
81. Telephone Communications
By providing a telephone number and requesting an offer, you authorize reasonable responsive communications concerning your property, scheduling, inspections, research, offers, follow-up, and potential transactions.
Additional consent will be obtained where legally required for regulated automated, prerecorded, artificial-voice, or marketing communications.
82. Washington Recording Law
Washington generally requires the consent of all participants before recording a private telephone communication or private conversation.
Consent may be established by an effective announcement to all participants that recording is about to occur, and when the call itself is recorded, the recording announcement should also be recorded.
Acquisition calls should therefore not be silently recorded.
83. Text Messages
If you provide a mobile number and applicable consent, we may communicate by text concerning your inquiry, property, scheduling, inspections, offers, follow-up, and potential transactions.
Where required, additional consent will be obtained before regulated automated or marketing texts are sent.
Consent to marketing is not a condition of receiving an offer or selling property where prohibited.
Message and data rates may apply. Message frequency may vary. Reply STOP to request that applicable messages stop.
84. Email Communications
By providing an email address, you authorize communications concerning your property, potential offers, inspections, due diligence, scheduling, follow-up, and potential transactions.
Applicable promotional emails will provide an unsubscribe mechanism.
85. Electronic Communications
Where permitted by law, you consent to receiving Website and transaction communications electronically.
This does not eliminate any legal requirement that a particular document be provided in another form.
86. Privacy
Our handling of personal information is described in our Privacy Policy.
87. Independent Decision-Making
Selling fire-damaged real estate can have significant legal, tax, financial, insurance, construction, environmental, tenant, and personal consequences.
You may wish to consult a Washington attorney, licensed Washington real estate professional, tax professional, accountant, insurance professional, contractor, engineer, environmental professional, appraiser, landlord-tenant attorney, HUD-approved housing counselor, or another qualified adviser.
88. No Professional Advice
Website content is general information and does not constitute individualized legal, tax, accounting, financial, insurance, construction, engineering, environmental, appraisal, mortgage, landlord-tenant, or foreclosure advice.
89. No Automatic Agency or Fiduciary Relationship
Use of the Website does not itself create seller agency, buyer agency, brokerage, fiduciary duties, partnership, joint venture, or employment.
If a Washington licensed real estate professional participates, applicable agency law, services agreements, and professional duties control.
90. Acceptable Use
You may not use the Website unlawfully, submit fraudulent or materially false information, impersonate another person, submit property information without authority, attempt unauthorized system access, introduce malicious code, interfere with the Website, or violate another person’s rights.
91. Intellectual Property
Unless otherwise stated, the Website and its original branding, text, graphics, design, layout, images, and software are owned by or licensed to I Buy Houses With Fire Damage Seattle.
You may not commercially reproduce protected Website content without authorization.
92. Third-Party Websites and Services
We do not control independent third-party websites, privacy practices, security, products, services, representations, or conduct.
93. Website Availability
We may modify, suspend, restrict, or discontinue Website features.
Continuous, uninterrupted, secure, or error-free availability is not guaranteed.
94. No Guarantee of Transaction
We do not guarantee an offer, fair-market-value pricing, a particular purchase price, a particular closing date, successful assignment, insurance recovery, vacant possession, resolution of a City violation, completion of a transaction, or a particular financial result.
95. Marketing Claims
Website statements describing offers or services as fair, competitive, immediate, fast, transparent, stress-free, cost-free, no-pressure, or similar terminology describe marketing objectives or potential features and do not guarantee a specific financial result.
The executed transaction documents control.
96. Testimonials
Testimonials describe individual reported experiences and do not guarantee the same offer, transaction timing, structure, or result for another seller.
97. Disclaimer of Warranties
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE WEBSITE AND WEBSITE CONTENT ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.”
WE DISCLAIM WARRANTIES THAT MAY LAWFULLY BE DISCLAIMED, INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
Nothing in these Terms eliminates protections that applicable law does not permit to be waived.
98. Limitation of Liability
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, I BUY HOUSES WITH FIRE DAMAGE SEATTLE AND ITS AFFILIATES, OWNERS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, SERVICE PROVIDERS, AND BUSINESS PARTNERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING SOLELY FROM WEBSITE USE.
OUR AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR CLAIMS ARISING SOLELY FROM WEBSITE USE WILL NOT EXCEED $500, TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
This Website-only limitation does not govern rights or liabilities under separately executed purchase agreements, assignment agreements, brokerage agreements, distressed-home agreements, tenant documents, insurance agreements, contractor agreements, or other transaction-specific documents unless those documents expressly provide otherwise and applicable law permits it.
99. Independent Third Parties
To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not responsible for the independent representations, contracts, pricing, performance, privacy practices, professional services, or conduct of unaffiliated third parties.
Nothing in this provision eliminates liability that applicable law does not permit to be excluded.
100. Indemnification
To the extent permitted by law, you agree to indemnify I Buy Houses With Fire Damage Seattle from claims arising from your unlawful Website use, material breach of these Terms, fraudulent information knowingly submitted by you, information knowingly submitted without authority, or violation of another person’s rights.
101. Governing Law
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Washington, except where another law must apply.
102. Venue and Disputes
Subject to mandatory jurisdiction, venue, consumer-protection, distressed-property, landlord-tenant, and transaction-specific requirements, proceedings arising solely from Website use may be brought in a court of competent jurisdiction in Washington.
These Website Terms do not impose mandatory arbitration.
Nothing in these Terms overrides a Washington law providing that arbitration cannot be required.
103. Non-Waivable Rights
Nothing in these Terms waives rights that cannot legally be waived under applicable Washington real property disclosure law, Washington Real Estate Licensing Law, Washington real estate agency law, Washington Distressed Property Conveyances Act, Washington Residential Landlord-Tenant Act, Washington Consumer Protection Act, Washington My Health My Data Act, Washington communication-recording law, Washington breach-notification law, Seattle housing and building regulations, Seattle RRIO, Seattle tenant-relocation law, Seattle Notice of Intent to Sell requirements, federal mortgage-assistance law, federal lead-disclosure law, or other applicable law.
104. Transaction Agreements Control
These Website Terms do not replace purchase agreements, assignment agreements, brokerage services agreements, Form 17 disclosures, amended disclosures, distressed-home agreements, statutory cancellation forms, tenant notices, escrow documents, title documents, insurance agreements, contractor agreements, or other transaction-specific documents.
A separately executed transaction agreement governs that transaction to the extent enforceable.
105. Changes to These Terms
We may update these Terms periodically.
Updated Terms become effective when posted or on another identified effective date, subject to applicable law.
106. Severability
If a provision is invalid or unenforceable, it will be enforced to the maximum lawful extent or severed, and the remaining provisions will remain effective.
107. No Waiver
Failure to enforce a provision does not waive the right to enforce it later.
108. Assignment
You may not assign these Website Terms without our written consent.
We may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, restructuring, affiliate reorganization, or sale of assets, subject to applicable law.
This Website provision does not determine whether a particular purchase agreement may be assigned.
Assignment of a purchase agreement is governed by the agreement itself, Washington contract law, Washington licensing law, Washington distressed-property protections, and other applicable requirements.
109. Entire Agreement Regarding Website Use
These Terms and the Privacy Policy govern Website use.
They do not supersede separately executed real estate transaction documents.
110. Contact Us
Questions concerning these Terms may be directed to:
I Buy Houses With Fire Damage Seattle
Seattle, Washington
United States
Website: ibuyhouseswithfiredamageseattle.com