I am dumbfounded by the high prices investors are paying for property.

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This happens to me time and time again. I just got off the phone with a seller of a house in Florissant MO who told me that 5 other people made offers on his house and that my offer was less than half of what the next highest offer was.

I offered $20k on a house with an ARV of $100k. It needed $41k in rehab (and I know I can get my rehabs done for much less than most too.)

This means that someone else offered more than $41k. But why, how on Earth can they do that? Maybe my comps were off, but they can't be that far off.

Here is what the numbers look like with a $41k offer. And they accepted an offer higher than that.

$100,000 sales price

-41,000 purchase price

-41,000 rehab cost

-12,000 other cost

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= $6,000 profit

This is not a good deal. I have seen this happen hundreds of times in the last several months. Am I missing something? Why are so many people paying so much for properties now?