Selling to Opendoor 2026

I just wanted to throw this out there, because my wife and I searched a lot for Opendoor selling experiences the past month or so.

We live in Nashville and bought in 2019. Our home value surged the past seven years, so we have quite a bit of equity in it at this point. We are looking at selling and just taking our equity and going back to an apartment (tired of upkeep and whatnot).

We have a few pets, and showing the house sounds like an enormous hassle, so we thought we’d get an Opendoor quote for the heck of it, just to see what they’d offer. Our initial offer came back and it was pretty reasonable, we found it to be fair enough considering we could avoid the whole selling process and showing the house and fixing stuff, etc.

They scheduled an inspection a couple days after and he came out for about 45 minutes and left. The inspection shows up on their site a few days later and is mostly positive, there’s some minor fixes suggested, whatever, we figured that. About a week later and a couple calls to them, somebody finally calls me and says they’ve reviewed the inspection and due to our house needing a new HVAC and extensive foundation repair, they would need to reduce their offer by 26k.

The inspection stated no issues with foundation, and that it was “great!” No issues were reported with the HVAC either, even though the inspector didn’t even turn it on or adjust the temperature. But whatever, I assumed he was cutting corners because they probably pay him less than an individual would.

I question the Opendoor rep about this and she is evasive and gives a couple mumbles and a “well I don’t know if that was on the inspection…”

We declined the adjusted offer at that point. It seems they have gone heavy into AI to review these human inspections, and it’s kind of a crap shoot what is pulled into their software.

Anyway, I guess we’re doing some minor repairs and selling the traditional way! By all means though, go through the process if you want a quote with them. Cancellation was super easy and we got a free half assed home inspection out of it.