Arbitrage Opportunity in Real Estate?

Arbitrage Opportunity in Real Estate?

Investor · Las Vegas, NV · Member since 2016 · 30 posts · 4 votes

I work full time in the internet marketing space arbitraging clicks between exchanges in an essence I don't spend any money because it's all on the suppliers credit and if any clicks result in fraud I can chargeback the supplier for the clicks. This is a rare opportunity to find pure arbitrage where you have no price risk an risk none of your actual capital because I'm also buy and selling simultaneously.

If your unfamiliar with the concept read here http://people.stern.nyu.edu/adamodar/pdfiles/invph...

A lot of opportunity in financial markets also exists even not trading between exchanges chasing price variances. 

I'm newly getting into real estate. Are their any concepts out their for arbitraging anything? In stored commodities you can make money off a simple difference in commodity pricing due to a higher or lower cost to hold the good on inventory. 

Maybe this is possible holding a loan at say 4% interest and charging rent of what would be 8% interest without actually having to put any money up for a loan based on collateral for a property? 

Maybe even going as far as listing things in different countries for the same price and looking for currency differences in pricing models? Are their any exchanges where you can trade real estate derivatives to capture price variations outside the stock market? 

Maybe brokering mortgages could work if your buying and selling simultaneously. 

Lets hear your creative arbitrage ideas for real estate.

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Investor · Louisville, KY · Member since 2014 · 142 posts · 77 votes
10y
Originally posted by @Ronan M.:

You lost me after the first paragraph......

He pays to advertise a website but makes more than he invests by those people clicking on his ads on the website.

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  • Property Manager · Louisville, KY · Member since 2013 · 309 posts · 115 votes
    10y

    Cody,

    I haven't heard of anything like that. 

    Arbitrage works great in liquid markets but real estate is not usually a near cash/cash equivalent.  If you could find a highly liquid real estate market it could work.  

    REITS can operate on currency differences among other metrics but it's a long term proposition.  

    For the small-time RE investor the best arbitrage is wholesaling.  

  • Investor · Las Vegas, NV · Member since 2016 · 30 posts · 4 votes
    10y

    Do you know any investors that fund money based on the collateral of the property being purchased and then act as revenue sharing partner on the wholesale deal? This would be a fit.

    Assigning contracts has not been viable so far. 

    Started calling a lot of real estate investment companies in Chicago and Las Vegas and came to find a lot of them are only buying MFR that are $1 to $5 million or $10 million plus.

    Getting a real estate license is looking like the only way to secure deals without getting buyers and sellers to sign NDAs.

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    Rental Property Investor · Chicago, IL · Member since 2015 · 352 posts · 281 votes
    10y

    You lost me after the first paragraph......

  • Investor · Las Vegas, NV · Member since 2016 · 30 posts · 4 votes
    10y

    What part?

  • Investor · Louisville, KY · Member since 2014 · 142 posts · 77 votes
    10y
    Originally posted by @Ronan M.:

    You lost me after the first paragraph......

    He pays to advertise a website but makes more than he invests by those people clicking on his ads on the website.

  • Investor · Louisville, KY · Member since 2014 · 142 posts · 77 votes
    10y

    You want to look into wrapping loans.

    Financing a deal with equity that's in a current deal won't work. You can however put up cash for the dpwnpayment on the first deal with a lot of equity. Then refinance and pull all that cash out and purchase another property and keep doing that. Essentially having no money invested in any of your properties. It's called the BRRRR strategy on here and many people use it successfully.

  • Investor · Las Vegas, NV · Member since 2016 · 30 posts · 4 votes
    10y
    Originally posted by @Major Robertson:

    You want to look into wrapping loans.

    Financing a deal with equity that's in a current deal won't work. You can however put up cash for the dpwnpayment on the first deal with a lot of equity. Then refinance and pull all that cash out and purchase another property and keep doing that. Essentially having no money invested in any of your properties. It's called the BRRRR strategy on here and many people use it successfully.

    Now that's some good advice. Thanks a lot stranger. I found these awesome portfolio loans recently through a really conservative stand up company. I'm doing one for my personal property right now. Bank statement programs they call them.

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