All Forum Posts by: Chavis Atkins

@Valentina Woodson

I deal with vacant houses frequently and I am a wholesaler. If there is anyone better at telling what you need to do to find the owner would be a wholesaler that does more volume than me and have more time on their hands. So take my advice for what it is but this is how you get the phone number to these owner's hard to find at least 85% of the time... TLO Transunion Skip Tracing software. I've been using it for the past 3 months and haven't had hardly any issue finding the owner. Sometimes the best way to find the owner if you can't find the owner's number is finding a relative to the owner to put you in the right direction. TLO will give relatives too... they are relatively cheap for the information they give you including social security numbers. They cost at their cheapest I got is $56 for 60 searches per month. You have to sign up for a year though so if this business will be your business and you taking it seriously, get this to find them vacant owners or whomever you trying to find to obtain their home. You also have to have a location within you home or a office period to get their service as the information is sensitive and they must know you are operating a business so make sure you have at least a llc. 

If anything else, you are not able to get TLO then Intellius got me a bulk of my wholesale deals and I was using that for 2 years before I got TLO. Private message me for help... unlike many others, I have the time to help if you need it and that goes for anyone else needing help wholesaling.

If your county has a online recorder site then you can check there for the owner. Sometimes I can't find a person on the assessor website because the assessor's office has the street name arranged a certain way that you have to play around with excluding the direction in the address, the abbreviations or making sure your spelling correct. Also try the Treasurers website to look up the address for the owner's name. Question, after you find the owner... How are you going to touch base with them? 

Forgot I posted this. Thanks for the replies and I'll start checking into what has been advised.

I'm looking to purchase a property in Merrillville, Indiana and flip it. What are good ways I can go about obtaining funds with reasonable terms under my LLC? I normally just contract houses and wholesale them but I want to move up to buying the property to hold for resale. I'm tired of contracting home plus I rather not contract homes that may take some time to find a buyer for. Are there any Biggerpockets members that provide private lending or know someone that I can connect with on this matter? I want to do this real estate business smarter and make sure the seller is taken care of before I bring the property to another buyer after closing. PM me or reply please, thanks!

It is a 1,008 sq ft. 3 bed 1 bath home with basement and garage but will need targeted renovation in certain areas. This house is more of a rental than a flip with ARV being around 90k max. I'm also offering to rent the home if you choose to use it for a rental for free. It should rent for $1,000 (maybe inch in a extra 50 bucks) and tenant will have all necessary qualifications to lease it.

House has mold in 2 of the bedrooms, hallways, bathroom, kitchen and throughout the basement. There is a hole in the roof over the bathroom that has been there since last winter. The windows on the side of the home and the back have busted windows. Basement had flooded due to a busted pipe 2 years ago and caused some floorboards to raise in the hallway area and a bedroom. Water was removed soon after in there but the damage was done so the basement will need gutting. Take a look at the video and pictures to see if this interests you at the Dropbox link.

Inbox me for a showing or offers!

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/l2cddx4i13na3hz/AABlW8qX2iHV682NGjk0B77Za?dl=0

Indiana Title for sure... been closing with them for all my wholesale deals.

@Tiffany Campbell The properties are still available. My contract ran out on them but I can always put them back under contract if you are wanting to go forward with them. Let me know pm how you want to proceed.

 Thanks for the info

It is on a slab and since the engineering report stated what it stated about push piers being utilized I figured as much anyway. You can see from the pictures it is slab though... I'm not to experienced on this but I figured that is what it is. Cracking in drywall and windows breaking is what I expect but trying to get a idea of how push piers has worked for anyone that has had a house like mine they repaired.

Mike, thanks for the information! I really want this house but want to be close to sure based off others experience with a home like this. The home doesn't have sufficient bearing strength plus the soil which has got it this way. So when the home is shored, the house straightens up? I understand there will be damage due to this but do normally shoring a home not cause all sorts of other problems?