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Posted almost 10 years ago

The Angry Seller and The Motivated Wholesaler

Hello all!!

Boy, do I have a story to share.

As we all know, the primary job of a Wholesaler is to drive for dollars and knock on as many MOTIVATED sellers doors as possible.

So I was heading to my daily first of ten home visits for MOTIVATED SELLERS. This home is in one of the up scale neighborhoods in Houston, located in the Heights, I typically visit 50 + different homes in all kinds of neighborhoods from the down and dirty to the million + , this one just so happen to be in nice neighborhood, one would expect nice folks right?

WRONG.

As soon as the owner answered the door, " Hi my name is Terry, I would like to speak with you about purchasing your property" and handed a card........ 

Immediately I get a F OFF and a door closed in my face.

This has happened before and will more than likely happen again.

Now normally I would walk away and cross that one off my list, do not visit, do not mail, however, I opened my mouth and some words were exchanged.

Next thing I know the home owners wife has grabbed me by the shirt and starts shaking me!!!!!!! Things were started to getting heated, so I decided it's probably best to start heading to the car.

Lol, anyway, 4 hours later I get a call from the local PD that I am being issued a verbal warning to not come back to the property. Welllllllllllllllll life goes on right?

I refused to be deterred by anyone or anythingy, Persistence and Consistency.

So the last one I visited that day was a lovely lady whom is the POA for her family's property. and WOW, does she ever want to sell! She was very happy to see me and hear what I have to offer. She is past due on her taxes to the tune of about $200,000 and going to be foreclosed on next month.

I am meeting the homeowner again tomorrow morning to get the 3 lots under contract for $215,000...HOPEFULLY....... and current market value is $349,000 which I will start marketing to builders as soon as the sales contract is executed.

My current primary goal is to do an assignment of contract, however, there is such a spread to be had on this deal, I am going to present my offer to a private hard money lender for receiving transactional funding so I can close on the property myself and sell it the builder, scratch be assignment fee..... Time for a big boy paycheck.

I am really hoping this goes smoothly, it could be a major pay off to fund the start of my re-habbing.

I will keep everyone updated.

Thanks for reading!!!


Comments (2)

  1. Great news!!

    Seller has signed contract this morning.

    Now all that is left:

    Pray that the title is clear other than past due taxes ( which I am aware of)


    Find an end buyer - more than likely a builder

    Get a HML

    Close the deal.


  2. Great story :-),

    So question (which has nothing to do with getting B#$%!ed out, but everything to do with driving for dollars and your approach):

    What is your process?  My husband and I are just getting started, and we've now spent several hours over a week or two driving, noting potential properties and then coming home and researching them on the county website, etc..  I'm wondering, do you find the houses, do the research and then go to the houses of the owners who are not absentee and send letters to the the absentee owners?

    I'd love to hear more about what you're doing and how you're doing it, what you're saying to the sellers to determine if they're motivated, etc.  Like I said, we're just in the early stages of figuring out how to play the game.

    Thanks for sharing your story, and congratulations on your success (nothing like a little verbal beating to make you really appreciate the kindnesses and openness from others, right?!)

    Best,

    Stacey, Tacoma, WA