Proof of ROI
After repair value calculator Chicago
Know the return before you buy. File free on proofofroi.com. Then the wall.
Proof of ROI is the after repair value calculator Chicago investors run before they lock an exit number — street address in, File out: ARV from sold rehab comps inside max safe offer plus Buy / Renegotiate / Pass. Not a $/sqft toy that never touches the bid, and not a phone call first. Run a File free on proofofroi.com. Then the wall: $199/mo — We run the deal in 60 seconds and cost the rehab.
Searching after repair value calculator Chicago usually lands on a national ARV estimator that averages three comps and stops, a ZIP median $/sqft prefill, a free flip calculator with an ARV cell you type yourself, or a ChicagoLand Appraiser analyzer that starts from resale and backs into max purchase. Those screens are useful triage. They are not a dated max safe offer that ties ARV to a sold rehab look-alike, Chicago transfer tax, attorney closings, hold, and a Construction cost band toward the finish you named.
ARV is a sold exit — not a Zestimate or a ZIP median
After repair value is what the house should sell for once the work is done, in today’s buyer pool. Honest ARV starts with closed, renovated comps — same product type, similar GLA and bed/bath, recent close, finish level you intend to deliver — not active listings, not a citywide median, and not a model that cannot see a renovation that has not happened. Underwrite the conservative end of the adjusted range when the set is thin. Stretch distance or age and you are pricing hope, not exit.
Here is the File logic in plain words. Mid ARV leans on comps you can defend, ideally sold rehabs that look like your exit. Rehab stays Construction Proof (pending) until a Proof stamp from Banc Construction costs the rehab from subject photos + a sold flip toward that finish. Sell costs, buy-close costs, and hold cost sit in the stack so tax and carry are not an afterthought. Margin is not optional: at least $25k or 12% of mid ARV, whichever is higher. Max safe offer is mid ARV minus mid rehab minus those costs minus margin. If worst-case profit is red after a soft ARV haircut, that is a Pass. Not a meeting to talk yourself into a stretched exit.
Who this is for: Chicago and Chicagoland flippers typing after repair value calculator Chicago; operators who already have three comps and still blank the offer; out-of-town capital that pasted a national $/sqft into a Chicago micro-market; hard-money desks that want ARV inside Buy / Renegotiate / Pass on one dated page, not a separate comps screenshot. Soft DEMO comps when live data is not used. Construction Proof (photos + sold flip) is not a contractor bid. Returns are not promised. Extra Proof is $129 when you need another stamp in the same month; unused don’t roll.
What this is not: a homes-for-sale page, a foreclosure hub, a promised-return pitch, or a phone-first sales desk. Public phone (708) 901-1805 lives in the footer only. The File is the funnel. Sibling spokes: max safe offer, rehab cost, construction loan packet, buy / renegotiate / pass, target sold rehab, carry cost. Hub: Proof of ROI.
Run the ARV inside the File.