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Don’t Over Complicate Wholesaling: How to Keep it Simple

by Ken Corsini May 8, 2013

It’s been interesting to watch how many new wholesalers have entered my market just over the last year or so. I’m not really sure what to attribute it to, but there seems to be an influx of guys interested in playing in this space. Don’t get me wrong, I like the fact that there are [...]

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The Shocking Truth About Working With Wholesalers

by Michael LaCava March 31, 2013

As a real estate investor, wholesalers are a great source of potential deals for you. Whether you buy and hold, buy and flip or buy, hold then flip, wholesalers have been the source of some my most lucrative house flips. But working with wholesalers is not as easy as you might think. Sadly, there are [...]

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9 Reasons You Couldn’t Find A Buyer For Your Wholesale Deal

by Danny Johnson February 13, 2013

Let’s imagine you have a house under contract. You’re excited, but nervous. It’s very important you close, not only because you want to make money for your efforts, but because you’ve taken on the responsibility to get the deal done. The seller is relying on you and the last thing you want to do is [...]

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Don’t Start Wholesaling Until You Read This: Wholesale Advice from a Fix and Flipper

by Marty Boardman January 26, 2013

Have you ever wondered how Google knows exactly what information you’re looking for after typing 2-3 words in the search box? How did Steve Jobs figure out the American consumer would go nuts over a little portable device that stores and plays our favorite music? Who knew combining a pickup truck and a station wagon [...]

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Real Estate Wholesalers: Tarnish Your Reputation by Using This Strategy

by Clay Huber November 10, 2012

I was surfing through the BiggerPockets forums today and I stumbled across one discussion regarding wholesalers. In a nutshell, the discussion was about a flipper being brought a deal from a wholesaler where the wholesaler greatly exaggerated the key numbers (ARV and rehab cost). Not a rare encounter to read about, but it reminded me [...]

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What Does a Real Estate Wholesaler Look For In a Buyer?

by Sharon Vornholt September 3, 2012

There has been a lot of conversation lately on BiggerPockets about working with wholesalers; the good, the bad and the ugly.I think that we can all agree that there both ethical wholesalers in this business, and those that are less than ethical. This is no different than you would find if you were looking at [...]

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Wholesaling Real Estate: 3 on 3 Interview Series

by James W. Vermillion III August 18, 2012

Wholesaling is the real estate strategy of choice for many new real estate investors because it is perceived as an easy business to start with little or no capital and minimal experience. Unfortunately, there are a lot of misconceptions regarding wholesaling and most people who attempt to wholesale fail to be profitable. However, if done [...]

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Using the MLS to Sell Your Wholesale Properties VS Building a Buyer’s List

by Sharon Vornholt August 7, 2012

There has been a lot of talk lately about selling your wholesale properties to your buyer’s list versus putting them on the MLS. There are several good things about both of these tactics. A lot will depend on whether you want to actually close on the property and hold it for a while as opposed [...]

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The Choice: Making Money Wholesaling vs Getting Your Real Estate License

by Sharon Vornholt July 9, 2012

The conversation can get quite “lively” when you put Realtors in a room with a group of real estate investors, especially if those Realtors aren’t investors themselves. And, this is just exactly what happened to me on the 4th of July. Inevitably we end up discussing folks that get their real estate license and the [...]

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Why Should Your Work with Real Estate Wholesalers?

by Sharon Vornholt November 21, 2011

A forum discussion that I came across about working with wholesalers recently caught my eye. This person was saying something to the effect that they wanted to go around the wholesaler and work directly with the seller. I can tell you that doing that with the wholesalers I know, would guarantee that you would be [...]

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Newbie Wholesalers: READ THIS!

by J Scott February 23, 2011

I get a lot of emails and phone calls from newbie wholesalers who are looking to do their first deal (and very few that are actually experienced). Most of the time, they want to run a deal past me that is too thin or for some other reason just doesn’t fit my style of investing. [...]

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Why is Your Wholesale Deal Not Selling? (Part 2)

by Stephani Davis July 8, 2010

As a real estate wholesaler, your success largely depends upon being able to find an end buyer for your deals once you have them under contract. As I mentioned in my article last week, if you have a wholesale deal that you’re having a hard time finding an end buyer for, the problem can usually [...]

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Why is Your Wholesale Deal Not Selling?

by Stephani Davis July 1, 2010

Last week I got an email from a beginning wholesaler asking me for advice. He told me he was considering doing deals virtually in another market because there were “no buyers” in his. He had recently put three properties under contract with the intent of wholesaling them to end buyers, but ended up backing out [...]

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Flipping Houses & Rehabbing

Why Many Wildly Successful Flippers and Wholesalers Will Face Bleak Retirements

by Jeff Brown June 1, 2010

It’s always been true, but since the correction the calls I get from those specializing in ‘quick turn’ projects, whether flipping or wholesaling, have more than doubled. The calls are predictable, usually coming within a few days after publishing a post about what their retirement will look like, given their long term M.O. — and [...]

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How I Made 3k in 3 Days Using OPD (Other People’s Deals)

by Stephani Davis May 20, 2010

As a real estate wholesaler, one of the the quickest and easiest ways to put cash in your pocket is by networking with other wholesalers in your market and partnering up on deals. In my city there are more wholesalers than you can shake a stick at, but instead of looking at them as my [...]

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