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Terms of Service

1. 1. What Orlando Buys is. Orlando Buys, operated by Ownvista, is an online marketplace that lets home sellers publish listings, lets buyers view them, and lets independent professionals list their services. We connect people. We do not participate in transactions.
2. 2. What we are not. We are not a real estate broker or agent. We do not practice law. We do not hold earnest money, deposits, or any funds. We do not facilitate, coordinate, or conduct closings. We do not provide legal, financial, tax, valuation, or real estate advice. Nothing on this site is advice.
3. 3. Your responsibilities. You are responsible for your own transaction. Buyers and sellers should hire their own real estate attorney, home inspector, title company, and lender. Sellers are responsible for complying with all disclosure laws, including Florida's seller disclosure requirements. Vendors are responsible for their own licensing, insurance, client agreements, and legal compliance.
4. 4. Accuracy. Listings and vendor profiles are submitted by users. We review submissions before publishing but do not verify the accuracy of any listing, price, description, credential, or claim. Verify everything independently. A vendor verification badge means we reviewed that vendor's license and insurance documents on the date shown; it is not a guarantee of quality or of current licensing or insurance standing.
5. 5. Conduct. No fraudulent listings, no impersonation, no harassment, no scraping, no use of contact forms for solicitation unrelated to the specific listing or vendor. Violations result in removal.
6. 6. Text messages. We sometimes send a single text message to a homeowner who has publicly advertised their home for sale by owner and published their own phone number in that advertisement. What we send, and how to stop it, is in the Text messages section of our Privacy Policy below.
7. 7. Limitation of liability. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Ownvista is not liable for any loss, damage, or dispute arising from any transaction, communication, or relationship between users, or from any vendor's services. Use of this site is at your own risk.
8. 8. Changes. We may update these terms. Continued use after changes means you accept them.

Privacy Policy

We collect the information you give us (name, email, phone, listing details, messages) and basic usage analytics. We use it to operate the site, deliver your inquiries to the people you contact, and send you service emails. If you sign up for listing alerts, we'll email you when new homes are listed; every alert includes an unsubscribe link. We do not sell your personal information. Contact details are never displayed publicly; they are shared only with the specific person you choose to contact through a form. You can request deletion of your account and data by emailing hello@orlandobuys.com.

Checklists and calculators. Checkmarks on our checklists are saved only in your own browser (local storage) and are not sent to us. The cost calculator runs in your browser; the numbers you enter aren't saved by us, though they appear in the page address so you can share an estimate. We record that a checklist or the calculator was used, without your inputs, so we know which tools are helpful.

Where visitors come from. When you first arrive from a link that includes a source tag (for example, one we shared in a community group), we keep that tag in a first-party cookie for 30 days. If you later send an inquiry or sign up for alerts, we store the tag and the page you used with it, so we can tell which pages and channels help people. The cookie holds only the tag, not your identity, and we don't use third-party advertising trackers.

Text messages

We sometimes send a single text message to a homeowner who has publicly advertised their home for sale by owner and published their own phone number in that advertisement. We use the number only as it appears in that public listing.

The message identifies who we are and explains that listing on Orlando Buys is free. We send one message per number. If you reply STOP, or tell us in any other way that you don't want to hear from us, we stop and do not contact that number again.

We do not use automated dialing systems, we do not run text marketing campaigns, and we never sell or share phone numbers. To have your number removed from our records, reply STOP to any message or email hello@orlandobuys.com.

Fair Housing Policy

Orlando Buys complies with the federal Fair Housing Act and Florida law. Listings, vendor profiles, and messages may not discriminate or express a preference based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, familial status, disability, or any other protected characteristic. Our listing form screens for common prohibited phrases. Any user who discriminates will be removed. To report a concern, email hello@orlandobuys.com.