1. The OpenOffer Properties digital Direct Offer Engine
OpenOffer Properties is operated by OpenOffer LLC as a fully digital, participant-directed Direct Offer Engine for property identification, private direct offers, participant-authored counters, private negotiation, authority review, moderation, approved platform-service payment verification, consent, recordkeeping, and permissioned contact release. OpenOffer provides software, neutral workflow structure, privacy controls, security controls, and platform rules. Each participant independently creates and authorizes their own offer, counter, message, acceptance in principle, decline, withdrawal, acknowledgment, consent, and contact-release decision. OpenOffer creates a protected digital connection workflow; it does not become a party to, representative in, or closer of the underlying property transaction.
2. The digital-lane boundary is an operational rule
The no-broker/no-representation posture depends on actual conduct, not a label. OpenOffer, its Administration users, support personnel, contractors, and automated systems must not act on behalf of a participant to choose price or terms, procure a specific counterparty as a representative, recommend whether a participant should accept or reject, negotiate as that participant's representative, prepare the final property contract, or perform another activity requiring a license or authorization OpenOffer does not hold. OpenOffer may geofence, disable, redesign, hold, or decline a workflow rather than cross that boundary.
3. No brokerage, agency, fiduciary, or negotiating representation
OpenOffer does not agree to act on behalf of a buyer, owner, seller, landlord, tenant, or other participant in buying, selling, leasing, exchanging, financing, or closing real estate. It does not list property, set or recommend a price, advise whether a proposal is fair, draft a counter as a representative, negotiate for a participant, receive a commission based on property value or transaction success, or hold itself out as a licensed real-estate professional. No use of the platform creates a brokerage, agency, fiduciary, employment, partnership, joint venture, buyer-representation, seller-representation, attorney-client, lender-borrower, escrow, title, or other professional relationship with OpenOffer.
4. Not a listing portal, auction, lead sale, finder service, or offer to sell
A property record, address result, owner alert, sign request, map pin, saved address, Camera Fast Track match, or offer opportunity is not a real-estate listing, auction listing, owner advertisement, certification of availability, or representation that a property is for sale. OpenOffer does not sell a participant as a lead or sell protected contact information. The statement 'Listed? Not listed? Doesn't matter.' means only that a buyer may begin a digital offer workflow with an address; it does not override contracts, agency duties, court orders, laws, or third-party rights.
5. Participant-authored offers, counters, and decisions
An OpenOffer offer or counter is a participant-authored expression of interest and proposed terms transmitted through the platform. OpenOffer may provide neutral fields, formatting, workflow prompts, validation, safety checks, accessibility support, or recordkeeping, but it does not invent a participant's economic terms, choose the offer amount, decide what a participant should say, or authorize a material transaction decision for them.
6. Acceptance in principle—not a completed real-estate transaction
An OpenOffer acceptance means acceptance in principle for the next approved platform step unless the participants separately enter a legally sufficient agreement outside OpenOffer. An OpenOffer offer, counter, message, acceptance, acknowledgment, payment, verification event, or contact release does not by itself transfer an interest in real estate, create a deed, satisfy every statute-of-frauds or disclosure requirement, complete a purchase-and-sale agreement, create escrow, authorize property access, or require a closing.
7. OpenOffer exits before the underlying property transaction
OpenOffer supports the protected direct-offer, private-negotiation, verification, payment-for-platform-service, and mutually authorized contact-release stages, then exits before participants complete any underlying transfer or closing. OpenOffer does not prepare or execute the final purchase-and-sale agreement, transfer deed or title, conduct closing, provide escrow, hold earnest money or purchase funds, inspect or appraise property, arrange financing, issue title insurance, give legal or tax advice, or guarantee that a transaction will proceed. Participants independently choose any professionals they want or are legally required to use.
8. Private negotiation is participant-to-participant communication
The private negotiation channel lets authenticated participants communicate their own terms and questions while direct contact information remains protected. Private means access-controlled and not publicly visible. It does not mean attorney-client privileged, confidential from OpenOffer, or necessarily end-to-end encrypted. OpenOffer and approved providers may automatically process, scan, retain, and when reasonably necessary review content for delivery, accessibility, fraud prevention, contact-bypass detection, moderation, security, legal compliance, disputes, and audit.
9. AI, automation, and Document Intelligence cannot become the participant
AI-assisted tools may organize information, identify duplicates, extract or classify participant-provided material, suggest fields for confirmation, detect possible contact-bypass attempts, or flag fraud, security, or policy risk for review. They may not independently create or authorize a participant's offer, counter, acceptance, decline, withdrawal, property-authority claim, legal acknowledgment, consent, payment instruction, or contact release. Document Intelligence output is an assistive draft, may be incomplete or wrong, must be confirmed where used, and cannot establish identity, ownership, title, property authority, legal rights, or release eligibility by itself.
10. Property identity, confirmation, and third-party data limits
Address normalization, mapping, public records, prior listing information, photos, house numbers, geolocation, or Camera Fast Track results are discovery and matching aids only. They do not guarantee ownership, authority, title quality, boundaries, acreage, zoning, taxes, liens, occupancy, condition, value, listing status, availability, or third-party data accuracy. The participant must confirm the exact intended property and unit before a protected action continues.
11. Property claims, authority, representatives, and competing claims
An approved property claim grants only the defined access to an OpenOffer property record that OpenOffer expressly approves. It is not certification of deed ownership, authority to convey, legal capacity, clear title, or absence of another owner, lien, trust, estate, business interest, manager, representative, or competing claim. OpenOffer may request evidence, limit scope or duration, require additional verification, hold the property or release, reject or revoke a claim, suspend access, or preserve records when authority is uncertain. Protected counterparty information is never released merely because someone submitted or obtained a claim.
12. Verify Once, identity providers, passkeys, and Secure Return
OpenOffer may use a qualified identity provider for protected identity verification and use passkeys or other approved authenticators for secure return. Provider truth is established by valid server-side provider events, not browser redirects or screenshots. OpenOffer stores only the minimum provider result and audit information reasonably needed for the workflow and does not receive a device's Face ID, fingerprint, Windows Hello biometric, or device PIN through passkey authentication. Identity Verified does not mean Property Authority Verified. Secure Return is intended to return an authorized participant to the correct protected workflow state only after the required security and authorization checks pass.
13. Camera Fast Track
Camera Fast Track may use a participant-selected photo, address, house number, mapping result, and location only when the applicable permission and product controls allow it, to produce candidate property matches for participant confirmation. A photo, location signal, or match does not establish identity, ownership, authority, availability, consent, payment, safety, property access, or contact-release eligibility. An unsupported or ambiguous match must fail closed or require confirmation rather than silently becoming an authoritative property record.
14. SnapProof private evidence
SnapProof may accept purpose-bound private evidence for supported identity, property-authority, recovery, fraud, dispute, or other approved review. Evidence can support a review but is not a guarantee of authenticity, ownership, title, authority, legal capacity, or approval. Upload, retrieval, Administration review, retention, deletion, legal hold, and access must remain authorization-controlled and auditable. Another participant does not receive raw identity or authority evidence merely because that person made an offer or paid a platform fee.
15. Mutual contact release—not a purchased lead
The relationship develops privately before direct contact is exchanged. Contact release requires the exact authenticated buyer and exact authorized property participant, the correct property, an eligible accepted-offer and negotiation state, current legal acknowledgments, required identity and property authority, no unresolved claim or safety/fraud/moderation/legal/privacy hold, any required verified platform-service payment, and separate current participant authorization. Payment alone never unlocks another person. One participant cannot buy, force, or unilaterally trigger the other participant's identity or contact information.
16. What contact release does—and does not do
An authorized release is a controlled exchange of approved contact information between the exact participants who consented. It does not unlock the property, authorize a showing, grant entry, provide keys, control a lockbox, prove ownership, create agency, release claim evidence, transfer documents, or complete the property transaction. Administration may hold, deny, investigate, revoke, or suspend a release when authorized by policy, but Administration does not consent for a participant or force a connection. After an authorized recipient independently copies or retains released contact information, OpenOffer cannot guarantee it can retrieve that copy.
17. Platform-service payment boundary
Any OpenOffer fee must be conspicuously disclosed before checkout as consideration for the specifically described digital platform, privacy, workflow, verification, moderation, recordkeeping, or authorized-connection service. It is not earnest money, a property deposit, escrow, part of the purchase price, a brokerage commission, a legal fee, title fee, closing fee, or payment to the property owner. OpenOffer does not hold property purchase funds. Only verified server-side payment-provider events and platform eligibility rules can establish payment truth.
18. Refunds, disputes, chargebacks, and release reversal
Payment does not guarantee response, acceptance, negotiation success, contact release, property access, closing, or refund. Refund, cancellation, dispute, and chargeback treatment is governed by the checkout disclosure, provider rules, these Terms, and applicable law. A failed, refunded, reversed, or disputed payment can block, hold, or revoke platform contact-release status. Duplicate and replayed provider events must be handled idempotently and cannot create duplicate rights or payments.
19. Homepage benchmark and comparative claims
$299 FLAT. On a $500K home: about 0.06% vs. a traditional 6% commission benchmark — 100X LOWER. OpenOffer Properties uses a $299 flat platform-service fee for the protected digital connection/unlock service. The fee is not calculated as a percentage of the property price, does not increase because a property is more valuable, is not a brokerage commission, is not a share of sale proceeds, and is not payment to the property owner. The exact payer, timing, service, taxes, cancellation, refund, dispute, and chargeback terms are shown before checkout. The homepage 100X LOWER comparison is a specific illustrative $500,000-home example, not a universal percentage-price claim. $299 divided by $500,000 equals 0.0598%, which rounds to about 0.06%. A 6% traditional commission benchmark on $500,000 equals $30,000. Comparing 6% with the $299 fee's 0.0598% rate-equivalent is approximately 100.3 times; the homepage rounds that comparison to 100X LOWER. The 6% figure is used only as a traditional commission benchmark. Brokerage compensation varies by transaction and market, is negotiable, can be higher or lower, and is not set by law. OpenOffer does not represent that every seller pays 6%, that 6% is a legally fixed rate, or that the $299 fee produces the same dollar savings in every transaction. The comparison addresses only the OpenOffer platform-service fee against the stated traditional commission benchmark. It does not include or promise elimination of attorney, lender, inspection, appraisal, title, escrow, closing, brokerage, tax, repair, recording, insurance, financing, or other third-party costs that a participant may separately incur. The comparison is not a guarantee of savings or transaction outcome. OpenOffer maintains a written substantiation file for objective comparison claims, including methodology, assumptions, arithmetic, launch-fee configuration, review ownership, and qualified-counsel approval where applicable. This detailed pricing disclosure controls over shorthand benchmark wording elsewhere in the service. Public-facing pricing copy must remain consistent with the actual checkout configuration.
20. Fair housing, equal treatment, and respectful conduct
Participants must comply with applicable federal, state, and local fair-housing and anti-discrimination law. Discriminatory terms, preferences, steering, targeting, harassment, threats, intimidation, retaliation, coded evasion, or use of protected characteristics to make a housing decision are prohibited. OpenOffer does not use protected characteristics to create offers, set participant pricing, recommend acceptance, rank a person for a housing opportunity, or independently authorize contact release. Safety and fraud controls must not become a proxy for unlawful discrimination.
21. Existing agreements and the OpenOffer Clause
OpenOffer does not override a listing agreement, brokerage agreement, agency duty, purchase agreement, court order, law, regulation, or another binding obligation. Users are responsible for reviewing and honoring what they signed. Any OpenOffer Clause wording or discussion prompt is educational only, is not legal advice, is not automatically part of a contract, and is not guaranteed to be accepted or enforceable; a participant should have their own qualified professional review contract language before use.
22. Electronic actions, consent, records, and attribution
OpenOffer may maintain authenticated actions, timestamps, legal document versions, content hashes, acknowledgments, provider events, consent, moderation records, payment events, release evidence, and audit history. Electronic records can evidence what occurred and may have legal effect when applicable requirements are satisfied, but electronic form does not remove substantive requirements applicable to a final property agreement, deed, disclosure, notarization, recording, title transfer, or closing. Material legal-stack changes may require renewed acceptance.
23. Notifications, owner alerts, signs, maps, and communications
Owner alerts, email, SMS, signs, and map features are platform communication or discovery tools only. Alert registration does not prove ownership or willingness to sell. Signs do not create a listing or agency relationship. Public maps must follow privacy-safe location rules and not reveal private offers, claims, negotiations, evidence, or protected identities. Optional marketing or SMS may be activated only with the applicable consent, preference, suppression, unsubscribe, provider, quiet-hour, and legal controls.
24. Privacy, security, Administration, and provider boundaries
Administration and approved service providers receive only the access reasonably needed for their authorized functions. Administrative actions are role-limited and audited where required. OpenOffer may use hosting, database, identity, payment, mapping, email, SMS, storage, analytics, security, support, and incident-response providers under applicable controls. No security system is infallible, and OpenOffer may fail closed, restrict features, revoke sessions, quarantine evidence, preserve records, or activate incident and recovery controls when needed.
25. Jurisdiction and fail-closed operation
Real-estate, brokerage, finder, referral, privacy, fair-housing, electronic-transaction, communications, tax, licensing, consumer-protection, and contract laws vary by location. Feature availability can vary by jurisdiction, provider readiness, and applicable law. OpenOffer may geofence, limit, delay, disable, or decline a feature, jurisdiction, property category, or workflow until legal, technical, provider, insurance, and Founder-controlled release requirements are satisfied. No user may use OpenOffer to evade a licensing requirement, contract, court order, disclosure obligation, or professional duty.
26. Intellectual property, copyright, trademarks, trade secrets, and anti-copying rules
OpenOffer LLC owns or controls the OpenOffer Properties software, source code, original interface expression, written content, documentation, graphics, workflows as expressed in protected materials, databases and compilations to the extent protectable, brand elements, and other intellectual property, subject to third-party rights and licenses. OpenOffer also may protect inventions and technical methods through patent rights and confidential know-how through trade-secret controls. Except where applicable law expressly permits otherwise, use of the service does not grant permission to copy, reproduce, republish, mirror, frame, scrape, crawl, harvest, commercially exploit, remove rights notices from, reverse engineer, decompile, defeat access controls for, create an unauthorized derivative of, or use OpenOffer materials to build or train a competing product or service. OpenOffer and related brand names, marks, logos, and slogans may be claimed as trademarks or service marks; no registration status is represented unless separately verified.
27. User content and third-party rights
Users retain rights in content they lawfully submit, subject to third-party rights, and grant OpenOffer a nonexclusive limited license to host, copy, process, secure, analyze, moderate, transmit, display to authorized recipients, preserve, and create technical derivatives only as reasonably necessary to operate, protect, improve, audit, and enforce the requested service or comply with law. Users must have the rights and authority needed to submit their content and may not infringe copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, confidentiality, or other rights.
28. Copyright complaints and user-uploaded material
OpenOffer may remove, quarantine, disable access to, or preserve allegedly infringing user material and may implement a repeat-infringer policy. OpenOffer must determine with qualified counsel whether its user-upload and storage functions should rely on Digital Millennium Copyright Act safe harbors and, if so, designate and publicly identify a compliant DMCA agent and implement notice, counter-notice, record, and repeat-infringer procedures. OpenOffer maintains applicable copyright and user-content procedures and may update them as legal requirements evolve.
29. No guarantees; independent judgment and due diligence
OpenOffer does not guarantee identity, ownership, authority, title, liens, boundaries, zoning, value, condition, safety, financing, payment, response, willingness to sell, fairness, legal compliance, provider uptime, security, negotiation success, closing, or any particular outcome. Verification, moderation, authority review, payment verification, risk signals, and audit records reduce selected risks but do not eliminate fraud, error, discrimination, misconduct, infringement, or loss. Participants must use independent judgment and appropriate professionals.
30. Safety, suspension, recovery, and support
OpenOffer may rate-limit, block, hold, suspend, terminate, preserve evidence, reverse a platform release, revoke sessions, require reverification, or restrict a feature to protect participants, investigate misuse, address security/provider failure, comply with law, or preserve platform integrity. OpenOffer is not an emergency, law-enforcement, physical-security, or continuous-monitoring service. Legal, privacy, accessibility, copyright, safety, and operational requests can be directed to support@openofferproperties.com. This legal center describes the current published platform rules and may be updated as the service, providers, and applicable law change.