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You describe the job. They compete for it.

Post what you need once, and qualified providers near you bid for it with complete offers — the price and everything they will include at that price. You compare, you negotiate, you pick. It costs you nothing.

sample provider profiles
34sample provider profiles
kinds of work covered
31kinds of work covered
cities and suburbs covered
29cities and suburbs covered
bundled into sample offers
$69.2Kbundled into sample offers

Pre-launch: the provider and offer figures come from sample data built to show the format, not from a live marketplace. The coverage counts are real — those are the categories and suburbs WhoIPick opens with.

Free. Always.

Posting a request, comparing offers, messaging providers, and hiring are free and always will be. There is no seeker tier to upgrade to.

  • Post as many requests as you need
  • Receive unlimited competing offers
  • Compare bundles side by side
  • Message every provider who bids
  • Pick whoever you want, or nobody at all

How the bidding works when you are the one hiring

The work you do is the first step. Everything after it is reading offers that were written for your job specifically.

  1. Describe the job once

    What you need, where it is, when it has to happen and what makes it awkward. Ten minutes, one time, instead of six phone calls that each start from nothing.

  2. Offers come to you

    Providers whose category and service radius cover your address read the whole request and decide whether to compete for it. You are not passed to a call centre and your number is not sold.

  3. Compare complete offers, not quotes

    Each offer shows the price and everything included at that price, with a stated value on each item, so two offers can be put beside each other and mean something.

  4. Ask, negotiate, then pick — or do not

    The window runs for days. Ask a question, watch offers get revised in response, and award the job to whoever earned it. Closing the window without picking anyone costs you nothing.

What you end up looking at

The cheapest rate on this page is the most expensive offer

Three agents bid on sell my home in naperville. The one asking the lowest commission includes almost nothing; the one asking the highest includes the entire move. Net cost is the column that settles it.

Three competing listing offers on Sell my home in Naperville, compared by headline rate, fee, included value and net cost.
Who bidHeadline rateWhat you pay themValue of what is includedNet cost
Crosstown Realty Advisors

Crosstown Realty Advisors

4.2 out of 5 from 58 reviews

4 things included in the offer

Lowest rate
1.5%$9,375.00$350.00$9,025.00
Prairie & Oak Realty Group

Prairie & Oak Realty Group

4.7 out of 5 from 96 reviews

6 things included in the offer

Best value
2.25%$14,062.50$6,825.00$7,237.50
Naperville Signature Group

Naperville Signature Group

4.9 out of 5 from 214 reviews

11 things included in the offer

Most included
3%$18,750.00$11,000.00$7,750.00

Net cost is the fee minus the retail value of everything the provider includes. It is the only column that answers the question the seller is actually asking.

Walk through this example line by line on how it works.

Safety and verification

Being built — see status per level

You are letting someone into your house. We treat that seriously.

WhoIPick has not opened yet, so nothing below is running against real providers today. This is the ladder we are building and the order we are building it in — published now so you can hold us to it, not because it is already done.

The verification ladder

  1. Level 1 · EmailAt launch

    The floor. Enough to look around, not enough to be taken seriously.

  2. Level 2 · PhoneAt launch

    A working number that answers, tied to the account and not to a call centre.

  3. Level 3 · IdentityPlanned

    A government ID checked against a selfie, so the person bidding is a person. Run by a specialist provider, not by us.

  4. Level 4 · Licence and insurancePlanned

    For agents and licensed trades: licence number and current insurance confirmed before the badge appears. This is the badge that will matter most when the job is the largest transaction of your year.

Once it is running, a provider’s level will show on their profile and beside their offer — so you will be able to tell an email-only account from one that has cleared a licence and insurance check.

Ratings you can actually read

Reviews can only be written after both parties mark the job complete, both sides get reviewed, and every score is shown with the number of reviews behind it. Below are three sample profiles, showing how a score is presented at each end of the range.

  • Lakefront Movers

    4.5 out of 5 from 341 reviews

    A long record. This is what a score with weight behind it looks like.

  • Spotless Suburbs Cleaning

    2.9 out of 5 from 27 reviews

    Genuinely weak, and shown as such. We do not filter the bottom of the marketplace out of the marketplace.

  • Summit Ridge Real Estate

    5 out of 5 from only 3 reviews

    A perfect average from a handful of jobs. Flagged as new rather than presented as a track record.

Sponsored

Paid placement says so

Providers can pay for featured placement. When they do, the row carries the word “Sponsored” — never a colour on its own — and it never moves ahead of a rank somebody earned.

Writing the request

What a request that gets good offers looks like

The quality of what comes back is set almost entirely by the first ten minutes. Five things separate a request that draws real bundles from one that draws padded numbers.

  1. The constraint that actually worries you

    Karen wrote that she closes in Charlotte five days before she has to be out of Naperville. Every strong offer she received was built around that sentence.

  2. Numbers a provider can price against

    Square footage, room count, lot size, roof squares, panel amperage, how many stairs. Vagueness produces padded bids, because a provider prices the risk of being wrong.

  3. The condition, honestly

    “Thirty years of accumulation and the kitchen is dated” gets you an offer that includes junk removal. “Great condition” gets you an offer that does not.

  4. What good looks like to you

    Speed, price, least disruption, done properly once. Say which, and providers will bid the one you named instead of guessing.

  5. What you will not do

    No twelve-month contract, no time-and-materials, no early-morning starts. Ruling things out early saves everyone the round trip.

WIP-4821

Sell my home in Naperville

The request that produced the three offers above, exactly as it was posted.

Four-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bath colonial near Cress Creek, about 2,850 square feet on a quarter acre. We are relocating for my wife's job and need to be out by the end of October. The house is in good shape — new roof in 2021, furnace 2019 — but we have thirty years of accumulation in it and the kitchen is dated.

We would like to see what agents will do on commission, but honestly the bigger problem is the move itself. We close on the new place in Charlotte five days before we would have to be out of this one. Tell us what you include, not just what you charge.

It named the deadline, the condition, the budget-relevant numbers and the thing she was actually worried about. Every offer she received answered that last part.

Questions homeowners ask

Yes, and there is no seeker tier to upgrade to. Posting a request, receiving offers, comparing them, messaging providers and hiring are all free and always will be. Providers pay for a membership; you do not.

Providers pay a monthly membership for the ability to bid more, be matched over a wider radius and appear on category leaderboards. Later there will be paid placement, which is always labelled as sponsored and never reorders earned rank.

No. Nobody buys your contact details. Providers respond to the request itself, and messaging runs through the platform until you choose to take it off the platform.

No. You can let the bidding window close without picking anyone. There is no fee and no penalty, and you can repost with different terms.

Often not, and the comparison is designed to show you why. It ranks offers by net cost — the fee minus the retail value of everything included — because the lowest headline rate is frequently the most expensive offer once you count what you would have to buy separately.

We have not opened yet, so today the honest answer is that we check nothing — there are no providers to check. The ladder we are building runs email, then phone, then a government ID checked against a selfie, then licence and insurance for agents and licensed trades, with the level shown on the profile. Reviews will only be writable after both sides mark a job complete. We would rather tell you what is not built than imply a check that is not running.

No. Ratings are always shown with the number of reviews behind them, weak providers are ranked where they land, and a five-star average from three jobs is labelled as new rather than dressed up as a track record.

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