Deal Analysis for Wholesalers
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I built a deal analysis calculator, for wholesalers. It calculates the offer math, the deal-killers, and a report you can forward a buyer
If you want one completely free drop the address or connect with me, this is not a pitch just want some actual feed back.
Samuel, I would love to test this with a real deal. But I want to suggest something that would make your calculator significantly more useful for wholesalers, and it addresses the single biggest weakness in most deal analysis tools: repair cost estimates are almost always guesses.
Here is the problem. Most wholesalers plug in a repair number based on a drive-by or a gut feeling. Then they run the MAO formula, get an offer price, get the property under contract, bring it to their buyer, and the buyer walks because the actual repair costs are double what was estimated. The deal dies, the wholesaler looks amateur, and the buyer stops taking their calls.
But there is a free, third-party-verified source for repair costs that almost nobody is using in deal analysis: county code enforcement records.
When a county code enforcement inspector visits a property for a violation, they document the specific violations and assign dollar-amount repair costs. These are not contractor bids, not wholesaler guesses, and not Zillow estimates. These are actual numbers from licensed inspectors who physically visited the property and documented what it would cost to bring the property into compliance. And these records are public in most counties.
So here is what I would suggest for your calculator. Build in a repair cost input that can be sourced from three different places, ranked by reliability:
1. Code enforcement violation records - county inspector documented repair costs. Most reliable because it is a third-party professional who physically inspected the property. Free and public in most markets.
2. Contractor bids - actual quotes from licensed contractors. Reliable but costs time and money to obtain.
3. Rule-of-thumb estimates - the quick-and-dirty numbers most wholesalers use. Least reliable, but fastest.
If your calculator could show the user the difference between their guess estimate and the county-documented estimate for the same property, that would be a genuinely useful tool. Because the gap between those two numbers is where most deals fall apart.
I work with tax deed properties, which means I am already pulling county records as part of the sourcing process. Three county offices produce free public data that feeds directly into deal analysis:
- Tax Collector - tax delinquent properties (gives you the motivated seller signal)
- Code Enforcement - violation notices with dollar-amount repair costs (gives you the verified repair estimate)
- Clerk of Court / Register of Deeds - probate filings, liens, pre-foreclosure (gives you the title complexity signal)
When a property shows up on all three, that is what I call converged distress. And you already have the repair cost data from code enforcement before you even visit the property. That means your deal analysis can start with verified numbers, not guesses.
I have a few properties from Broward County FL that I would be happy to run through your calculator as a test. These are tax deed properties where I already have the county-documented repair costs from code enforcement records, so we can compare how the calculator handles verified repair data versus typical guess estimates. Drop me a line and I will send over the addresses and the county data.