How to Become a Cash Buyer, Beat Bidding Wars, and Avoid the Shared Equity Trap Featuring Flyhomes

We Fixed Real Estate

We Fixed Real Estate
How to Become a Cash Buyer, Beat Bidding Wars, and Avoid the Shared Equity Trap Featuring Flyhomes
Apr 09, 2026
Fred Glick

Fred Glick, a Broker, Real Estate Realist, and Founder of Arrivva, holds a stellar track record with over $2 billion in residential transactions while grounded in a lifelong passion for real estate.

Join him in the We Fixed Real Estate podcast by Arrivva, where he shares expertise and insights about the dynamic real estate landscape. Arrivva, a leading real estate and mortgage brokerage, caters to buyers, sellers, and mortgagees with love, integrity, and a transparent fee structure. Featured in the Wall Street Journal, Arrivva is transforming the real estate landscape, one happy client at a time.


Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:

  • What a bridge loan (swing loan) is and how cross-collateralization works in plain language
  • Flyhomes' buy-before-sell program explained with real numbers: cost, process, and timeline
  • How buyers become cash-like purchasers and close in 10 days with no contingencies
  • Why a Fly Homes cash-like offer is structurally stronger for the seller than a conventional cash buyer
  • The Fannie Mae guaranteed backup contract and how it removes DTI barriers for move-up buyers
  • Why selling your home empty almost always produces a better offer, and how to make that happen now
  • Warning: how shared equity investment companies structure their contracts so the effective rate exceeds 20%
  • How Apple's Culver City campus is driving demand across the Los Angeles Westside from Culver City to Westchester
  • The markets where buyers need a fully underwritten pre-approval just to be competitive


In this episode with Fred Glick and Chris Quin

How do you compete with cash buyers without being one?

In this episode of We Fixed Real Estate, Fred Glick of Arrivva and Chris Quin of Flyhomes break down the buy-before-you-sell strategy, 10-day closings, and the financing tools that give you a serious edge in competitive markets like San Francisco. From hidden costs to bidding war realities, plus a warning on risky shared equity deals, this episode reveals what most agents won’t tell you. 

Watch now before you make your next move.