Let's face it, everyone has skill sets and while it may be easy for one person to give me a play by play for structuring wholesale deals, that to me still sounds overwhelming.

Also, sometimes I will hire one of the more skilled handyman types who I have worked with before to oversee a project with a little oversight on my part.

I'd suggest you have other marketable skills other than RE as RE is very cyclical, feast or famine unless you are very flexible and can play in various aspects of RE such as management, construction, development, finance and marketing, with a good education you can make a swift transition to any aspect of business.

Michael Siekerka Mike: If your wholesaler develops skills in this area, it can be a real niche with little competition.

If you have some type of skills or other experience that adds value to the investment, you might be able to find someone to work with you, joint venture the project, etc.

Add onto that that valuing properties correctly is a necessary skill, finding lenders and being knowledgeable enough to encourage them to work with you, and finding buyers, and putting them together.

Depending on the skills and attention of whoever built the addition, it may be as simple as inspections and some minor repairs to get it permitted.

Very few will open up initially about their personal financial situation, it takes some skill to get there on the first meeting, I suggest you don't try that.Simply approach them asking if they would be interested in selling as you just like the home and you're looking for one in that area.

That depends of your skill level and ability to negoiate a price....if you hired a buyer's agent and pay them yourself.If the home is listed on the MLS, getting a Realtor won't cost you any more, probably a good idea to use one.If you are contracting directly with a builder to build a home for you getting a Realtor involved will up the price one way or another you will be paying for a Realtor.Your have several safeguards as a buyer when using a lender, they will want it inspected, see that is free of liens through the construction process, have title work done, have it appraised and coordinate closing, so there is no need for a Realtor to get involved with these issues.

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