All Forum Posts by: Alexia N.

@Chase Vance ... Thank you so much for all of that information!

@Jeff Montanya ... Ok I just might do that! Thanks!!!

@Jeff Montanya ... Yes, I already knew that absentee owner means that the owner doesn’t occupy the property.

I just didn’t know that the homes on the list were considered “off market”. I don’t know WHY everyone is making a huge deal about that.

Even if I didn’t know that the homes on my absentee owner list are considered “off market”... that still wasn’t going to actually stop me from making calls to see if they were interested in selling their property. If 1 person on my list tells me that they want to sell their property, I’ll continue going through with the process, put the house under contract, & sell my contract to a cash buyer for my assignment fee. I WAS GOING TO DO THAT REGARDLESS WHETHER I KNEW THE “off market” PART OR NOT & I STILL AM. Lol. It didn’t really make much of a difference. It’s good for me to know, but it wasn’t that crucial to stop me from wholesaling.

@Mitch Harold ... Ignorant to the wholesaling process? It’s a LONG process with a lot of steps so be more specific. The only thing that I may have been ignorant to is the off market thing with the absentee owner list, that doesn’t mean that I’m ignorant to the other things when it comes to wholesaling. You & others that are assuming that just because I didn’t know ONE piece of information, that I don't know the WHOLE ENTIRE wholesaling process are the ignorant 1’s. Me not knowing 1 thing doesn’t cancel out all of the other knowledge that I already have.

Also, there are literally comments of people telling me that off market is what I need to be looking for, which really helped my question. If you think that’s “encouragement”, you’re clearly ignorant & don’t know the difference between encouragement & actual knowledge. In the comments, I received REAL answers, encouragement, & on the other hand I also criticism/judgment/assumptions from people who are really just unhappy with their own lives & real estate career. Anyone who “laughed” at me for not knowing something with me being a newbie is just pathetic & miserable with their life so I don’t really care.

I'm a newbie NOT a jellyfish. I have a backbone. I already have leads, cash buyer list, contractors, script/questions for motivated sellers, I know how to run comps, I know how to estimate repairs, I know how to get the MAO, I know how to get with the title companies, I already have my contracts. I REFUSE TO LET A STRANGER ON THE INTERNET TELL ME THAT I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT WHOLESALING WHEN I HAVE ALREADY CAME THIS FAR JUST BECAUSE I DIDN'T KNOW 1 THING. THANK YOU!!! Bye.

@Kenneth McKnight Thanks!!!

@Aisha Duff Thanks!!!

@Lutcien Sebert ... Thank you very much!!!

@Pratik P. & Like I told him as well, that was NOT the best advice in the thread in my opinion. All of the people telling me that off market is what I should be looking for is VALUABLE to me. (I just want positive answers & real knowledge only. I came on here to network with more experienced people. Anyone who is more experienced who is judging, criticizing, & assuming that I know anything about wholesaling just because I'm a newbie with questions, I will call it out because I don't want to network with people like that. I think that's fair to say.)

I was following a YouTube video that was doing wholesaling step by step. & Just for the sake of the thread, I went back to this YouTube video & watched it again. On the video, they described the difference types of list (absentee owner list, free & clear, probate, fire damage, pre-foreclosure, tax delinquent) & then they just said to “purchase a list of properties” ... They did NOT say “purchase a list of off market properties.” Well, now we know why I didn’t know because it wasn’t said on the video. It probably wasn’t mentioned because it’s really not a big deal. I didn’t know before, but I know now. VERY SIMPLE!

But thanks for your comment!!! I’ll make sure to check out those YouTubers.

@Darius Ogloza ... Thank you so much !!! 😊

@Will Barnard . In my opinion she didn’t give the best advice. The best answers was the people who actually answered the question & let me know that off market is what I need to be looking for because that’s what my question was about. ✅✅✅ She also told me to run comps, find contractors, & build a buyers list (WHICH IS NOT HELPFUL TO ME BECAUSE I KNOW HOW TO FIND COMPS, FOUND A CONTRACTOR, & ALREADY HAVE A LIST OF BUYERS THAT I CREATED.) I literally NEVER said that I didn’t already have that information. She just assumed that I didn’t because I’m a newbie.

I have thick skin. It’s just really annoying when more experienced people tell newbies to research wholesaling in general. Google is free, I use google everyday to research wholesaling. If I wanted to research it, I would’ve done that instead of coming on Bigger Pockets. I come on bigger pockets to actually network & get answers from real people. If I ask a CLEAR SPECIFIC question about a certain area in wholesaling to a more experienced person on here & their response is to just do research on wholesale in general, they’re no help to me. I don't want to seem defensive ... As you can see, I gave a response to the other people who commented in a non-defensive way because the others actually specifically answered my question.

Also, thanks for your own advice on wholesaling!!!