All Forum Posts by: Paul Strauss

There are a lot of pitfalls to having your license, not the least of which is falling into the real estate agent's mindset, and getting confused about what it is you really do.  I don't actually want to know, or think about what real estate "professionals" want to know. I'm an entrepreneur. I'm in arbitrage. i have CASH BUYERS who CLOSE.  

I focus on numbers, not "curb appeal". 

I don't do open houses or bake cookies. I'm motivated by PROFIT, not commission.  

If it makes a person uncomfortable that I don't have my commissioned real estate sales agent's license, and they have months to wait around for a realtor to  list and sell their $200K house at a massive discount for $194K, fine. Do it.  

If, however, you are truly a seller in distress, and you don't have months to wait around for a realtor to do what I can do in days or weeks- you will be very HAPPY to meet me, and you will JUMP at the chance to sell me your house IMMEDIATELY.  

In my opinion, licensing presents a whole different set of incentives which can serve to distract you, and confuse your sellers.  

For all others- if you are a genuinely distressed seller in need of help- if you can't afford your house, you're behind on payments / taxes; uninsured; or you're a burnt out landlord with tenant / eviction issues; facing job re-location, divorce, or life has otherwise happened to you-- maybe you took advice from how to invest in real estate from some message board, and now you've got a dog or dogs you need to unload?-- I have CASH BUYERS ready to go NOW; In addition, I also have a waiting list of tenant-buyers with deposits and/or option consideration ready to go in the BLOOPS- Brevard, Lake, Orange, Osceola, and Polk Counties.  I have a business associate in Tampa that buys for cash in that area as well- though I'd just be referring you over free of charge because he's a friend of mine.  Don't let that distressed property nightmare go on one more day longer than is necessary. Get it gone!

I'm in Brevard, and a wholesaler throughout the BLOOPS- Brevard, Lake, Orange, Osceola, and Polk. (I also go down to Palm Beach County because I routinely conduct certain other business in Delray Beach, and Boca Raton).  I just updated my profile because my approach has been a little too successful (it breaks my heart to tell people, "no", and I refuse to string people along) and I'm looking to add up to three more CASH BUYERS to my list who want to acquire 1 to 3 single family homes per month.  Understand that when I say CASH BUYER, I mean CASH BUYER, money in hand, ready to close.  I'm not looking for a wholesaler misrepresenting themselves as a cash buyer who just wants to shop my deals, and I'm not interested in your hard money or other financing contingencies. (In fact, I have my own hard money and other private financing-- if I'm going that route- I'll keep the deal and do it myself). 

Let me know if you (or anyone reading this) wants to acquire 1 to 3 houses WELL BELOW MARKET PRICE each month. Note that working with me is not amateur hour- I am not going to try to assign you contract for a $100K house for $90K.  Our worst offering is 30% below market, but our typical offer is 50% to 60% off market-- and we don't use Zillow for our valuations ;)

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p527.pdf

 I was just about to recommend you.

In your conversations, have you figured out if your local area rental property owner is looking to grow the portfolio? If so, there's an ideal buyer right there. You could go get something under contract and assign it for a profit if you know his criteria.

 Yeah- there's nothing so irritating in the creative RE world as all the invented terms floating around. 

 Welcome. I work for satan as far as you're concerned (I am an Independent Claims Adjuster). We both have the perfect line of work for farming communities.

 Exactly. There's no practical limit to the number of viable flips out there- at least I have not met the buyer who was in a financial position to exhaust the opportunities available.

 In my humble, but totally biased opinion, Florida is a GREAT place to start investing in the United States.  Are you thinking about another multi-family property? Have you considered other countries besides the US, but perhaps in the neighborhood- e.g. Costa Rica, Nicaragua, or the islands?