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All Forum Posts by: Harry Walker

Harry Walker has started 2 posts and replied 11 times.

Post: REI Answering Service, Phone System and CRM

Harry WalkerPosted
  • Real Estate Broker
  • Willingboro, NJ
  • Posts 12
  • Votes 10
Originally posted by @Clint Weir:

@Harry Walker Go to this page and insert your information for Call Porter pricing: https://www.callporter.com/product/live-answering-service/

Thanks!!!! 

Post: REI Answering Service, Phone System and CRM

Harry WalkerPosted
  • Real Estate Broker
  • Willingboro, NJ
  • Posts 12
  • Votes 10

@Jimmy Deringer I'd love more info.  debating on setting up my own or going with callporter.  Cant seem to find their pricing anywhere tho.

Post: NYC Program that pays 1 full year of rent

Harry WalkerPosted
  • Real Estate Broker
  • Willingboro, NJ
  • Posts 12
  • Votes 10
Originally posted by @Jonathan Soto:

@Harry Walker   thanks for the feedback.  what areas do you invest?

 Just getting back in the game, but anywhere in NJ. 

Post: Who are the movers & shakers in NJ

Harry WalkerPosted
  • Real Estate Broker
  • Willingboro, NJ
  • Posts 12
  • Votes 10

I'm a licensed NJ RE Broker just getting back into real estate since 2008 when they started changing all the laws.  Who are the movers and shakers in NJ now?  I see a lot of activity in North Jersey, what's going on in South Jersey?  Just looking to get in where I fit in.  Thanks in advance for any responses.

Post: Are you legally wholesaling?

Harry WalkerPosted
  • Real Estate Broker
  • Willingboro, NJ
  • Posts 12
  • Votes 10
Originally posted by @Brian Adams:
Originally posted by @Mike Cumbie:

@Brian Adams

"but as long as you are following the language in the contract the seller has signed you should be fine. If it says don't market, don't market, if it says no assignment, don't assign...if that's the case, get a new contract."

The contract cannot give you the ability to do something that is illegal. The contract can say "Buyer may market until their hearts content and take out TV ads on this property". If you are unlicensed I would pretty much dare someone to take out a TV ad a property they don't own. I might take the day off work just to sit in the Department of State office when the ad ran without a Brokerage listed, phone number to the licensed brokerage listed. Just to watch the multitude of phone calls come in reporting it. While as a general rule it would take quite a bit for me to report something (I have not to this point) there are plenty of people who sit around just reporting silly things like "The font of the brokerage number is not as pronounced as the cell number" or "Doug is licensed as Douglas". I can't imagine a TV or Radio spot.

The contract between 2 parties cannot override regulations.

Yes I agree, running a television commercial or radio ad for 1 wholesale property you have under contract wouldn't be the smartest idea...marketing something you don't own can definitely get you in trouble. 

However, the original question in this thread is if wholesaling is illegal. If you sign a purchase and sale agreement with the intentions of buying the property, and another interested party offers you more money so that your contract can be assigned to them, you can do that with no problem because that is legal in my state.

Hey Brian, its not a question of if it's legal, wholesaling is definitely legal.  It's a question of how to legally do it.  If you have a contract & are marketing a contract, that's legal, atleast in NJ.  If you have a contract & are marketing the property it's illegal in NJ and I would be pretty sure it is in most if not all other states.  In NJ Title 45 Chapter 15 clearly states what actions require a license.

Post: NYC Program that pays 1 full year of rent

Harry WalkerPosted
  • Real Estate Broker
  • Willingboro, NJ
  • Posts 12
  • Votes 10

@Jonathan Soto I recently dealt with the program personally and can attest that it is not a scam.  It is a time-consuming very unorthodox process, however we've developed a few relationships there to speed the process up.

Post: Are you legally wholesaling?

Harry WalkerPosted
  • Real Estate Broker
  • Willingboro, NJ
  • Posts 12
  • Votes 10

LOLOLOL.  I thought SNAP flip was just a made up name, ROTFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I'm so out of touch!

Post: Are you legally wholesaling?

Harry WalkerPosted
  • Real Estate Broker
  • Willingboro, NJ
  • Posts 12
  • Votes 10

@Joe Splitrock I've more than rolled stop signs, lol.  The problem comes in when someone rolls the stop sign & hit a deaf & blind kid that's in a wheelchair...  I'm not sure if there are more wholesalers in the industry than there are real estate agents.  "Wholesalers" don't have to go through the ethics, fiduciary & legal education that agents do, but they expect to make more money than agents because SNAP flip told them they could, lol.  Hence as @Karen Rittenhouse reiterated, there's a distinct difference between 1. wholesaling a property that you own and 2.  assigning the contract to a property that you do not own.  SNAP flip never told them there was a difference so they just took what he said & ran with it.  Hence the chaos we have in the industry right now.  @Jay Hinrichs I'm sorry for stealing your Guru, but I almost wet my pants with your SNAP flip comment.  I think we need to brand that & sell a course, lol!

Post: Are you legally wholesaling?

Harry WalkerPosted
  • Real Estate Broker
  • Willingboro, NJ
  • Posts 12
  • Votes 10

****ALL REAL ESTATE IS GOVERNED BY THE STATE.  IF YOU ARE GOING TO PRACTICE REAL ESTATE, CONTACT  THAT STATE'S REAL ESTATE COMMISSION & SIMPLY ASK THEM WHAT YOU CAN & CAN'T DO****

Thanks @Jay Hinrichs  I almost wet myself reading your SNAP flip comment.  I hope every wholesaler especially newbies read your comment so I cyber yelled it in case they didnt read your entire post.

On another note, I never realized how much it differs from state to state.  Guess it's time for me to start exploring different markets.

Post: Are you legally wholesaling?

Harry WalkerPosted
  • Real Estate Broker
  • Willingboro, NJ
  • Posts 12
  • Votes 10

@Ryan Blake I just don't get it.  What Guru came up with using the term "wholesaling" for "assigning a contract?"  There's a very big difference & they're creating choas & havoc in the industry.  A wholesaler purchases a property & sells it to a rehabber for a discount to fix & flip it (sell it for retail).  If you only have equitable interest in the contract, which creates a contractual interest, then you can only market the contract that you have an interest in, smh... 

I really wouldn't care, but when you have a homeowner losing their home because they're caught up in a contract with someone who has a clause that says the contract is subject-to finding an end buyer & gives them permission to market the property it's no different than a contract that's subject-to flipping 3 keys of coke & finding a cheaper distributer.  It's frickin illegal & regardless of what you're contract says it can't break the law.  I'm seeing too many people lose their homes because of the ignorance.  I market to pre-foreclosures & sheriff sales btw...

Each state has a real estate commision that says what you need a license to do.  Just because the "Guru" sold them a $50k class does not make what they're doing legal... 

Ok, just had to get that off my chest.  I was waiting for a "wholesaler" to tell me I didnt know what I was talking about, lol :-)