As I see it, there are basically 3 business flip models: - Virtual Wholesaling/flipping contracts/contract assingment - no cash needed- Short Sale/REOs - using a double escrow and transactional funding- Bulk REOs - using hedge fund financing, hard, or private funds Although the web is besieged with tons of sites to gurus pitching their programs for their various programs, courses, boot camps and the like, I believe there are also some very well-respected "real" investors doing actually these deals and profiting.

Our business model is to not take the property if possible.

I use a discounted cash flow model when analyzing a buy and hold property.

I wouldn't allow my business model to rely solely on leads from lead generation software without being able to simultaneously generate them myself.

Get out there and start marketing.If you have money - then try direct mail campaigns - depressed market - you can usually get by with sending mailings out to a whole geographic area but the targeted lists work great too - but geographic marketing is blanketing a whole area with a message - costs money.If you don't have money for marketing or much - bandit signs - networking - driving for dollars - etc.Before starting marketing you will need to pick you area. 15-20k homes at medium price range + or - 20% (depending on your business model) but we are talking about wholesaling - so usually the fixers are in this - 20% range.Hope this helps.

If not, your rental income would dramatically reduce and this is already low on the cash flow.I prefer buying and holding in areas where I can expect better future appreciation and better ease of liquidating, but that is just my personal biz model.

As Mike said, we don't do ourselves any favors when the govt steps in and rewards bad behavior or a bad business model by bailing companies out.

If you cold call, be ready to answer any detailed questions they have such as what amount of money your looking for and how it is secured, what will be the rate of interest they earn, and what is your business model.

He is also leasing the home from me for 3 months while I find a renter and use it as a model for new buyers for the new build that is going up.

You could run some econometric models to try to predict what will happen with inflation in the future, but if you knew that you could easily make millions betting on currency futures instead of going through the REI brain damage exercise.