"Are you motivated?"

Ditto for it being agent owned..my buyers want nothing to do with that.Now Renae, I went the same route i.e..cards, bandit signs, driving the neighborhoods and tracking down sellers(MASSIVE waste of time-fuggehdabout it)etc...and found them to be inefficient or if they produced the occasional seller, they weren't motivated enough..While I don't know your financial situation, there are 800 #'s and ways to do direct mail that are fairly inexpensive...you'll just have to do some googling....you can get a voice mail for $10/mth and get good lists for under $100 as well as being able to mail direct from your computer....if these mehods are still out of your price range, then find a better paying job(I don't mean to sound so brusque) so you can afford to do direct mail...

I now have 3 sellers on my list, 2 of which are seriously motivated.

These are the properties that the banks are the most motivated to get rid of at a bigger discount.

My thoughts right off the bat would be more cash on hand, more properties to buy, less risk(as far as if things went sour one or the other could cover the mortgage payment/expenses), Two people to feed off each other a motivate each other, half the work load.CONS: Split all profits down the middle, possible arguments (but what would you expect).To me it seems that a partnership has more pro's than cons and could be better than going in by myself.

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.

I was thinking while i was DM marketing for myself, if i found a motivated seller that would fit their criteria i could just wholesale to them to make extra cash for my rental properties.

Besides Craigslist, Backpage, eBay Classifieds, are there any other good websites for locating motivated sellers online?  

The smaller markets mean less inventoryLower mortgage delinquencies - Mortgage arrears in Canada are historically <1% and defaults far less again (<0.5%) which also makes for fewer motivated vendors;People are conditioned to turn to a real estate agent to sell their property.  

I could go even less but I still think being too removed from the business is not good.I was the one who proposed this number to him so he is very motivated to do good work because he knows he  doesnt want to go back to bidding misc jobs all over town.