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Updated over 10 years ago on . Most recent reply

Not sure what to do with this possible wholesale opportunity....
Hello all,
A seller I reached out to offered me this 2 family that needs work in the Wrentham/Foxboro area of Massachusetts.
He wants about 100k for it but he may come down further. The house has a failed septic and will probably need a roof plus updates. I estimate the repairs around 40k.
I did some research and it seems that its current as is value is about 150k and that after repairs it would worth about 250k.
I don't want to take on the flip so hopefully I can find an investor buyer and make a standard finders fee (%?).
Anybody in my area that has some wholesaling experience know where I can get some quality contracts?
Thanks BP community for all the help!
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How did you come up with the repair estimate? That seems ridiculously low for just what you described. I mean the septic alone could be more than that depending on the conditions of the lot. Unlikely but it will be at least half that and I would use $25-30K as a place holder on that until I could examine it more. Roofs again can be pretty variable but on a 2 family I would think it is going to be solidly into the 5 figures unless it is a very small side by side with no real dips and valleys of any sort. A full decent apartment grade rehab of 2 units could be $30K+ without the big ticket items.
Maybe you have done a full evaluation and know pretty good what some of this stuff will be but on the surface I'd probably double your number and at $100K it is an iffy deal at best IMO.