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The little pig produce some bacon after all.
The end of last year I agreed to purchase a property out of the area for 30 K. The folks were about to lose it to a tax sale and so I bought it even though it was not in my geographical area. I got some pictures and had someone go look at it for me and I thought surely I could make a go with such a cheap property and make it even for wholesale if I needed it.
I tried to owner finance it, but I didn’t have any takers.
So I loaded up and spent the best part of a whole day driving to the property and coming back home. The property was worshiped I thought.
Property Manager in that geographical area had a father that was a handyman. 35K into it and the property was somewhat pretty and we converted it from a two bedroom to a four bedroom.
It appraised for 160 so I did a cash out refi.
This took a number of months to complete and I was telling myself I’m not going to buy out of the area again. Now it’s looking like I might’ve did all right. I even had some wholesalers trying to contract it prior to me fixing it, but I realized that they were not real buyers so I did not agreed to their contract. The most serious investor wanted to give me less than what I had into it, and I tried to explain that I would take what I had into it, but he wouldn’t listen. Now i’m glad he did not listen. Lol