Has anyone tried buying multiple listed properties at once?

[Dominic Enea]

I am working with an investor who wants to buy multiple properties. He is not quite a big enough player to buy a large portfolio; even if he did I would not have the contacts to get it done.

However, he was asking me if it is possible to buy 10-30 properties that are currently listed. Here in California that is would be between $2M-$15M. Right now there are a lot of agents who have that many properties listed from one lender in one area so it could be plausible.

Has anyone heard of this or done this before?