Whether you’re trying to find off-market deals, build a pipeline of motivated sellers, or scale up your operations, there are some game-changing tools and methods that can seriously boost your efforts.I’m really passionate about helping others take their business to the next level, and I’ve seen firsthand how these approaches can deliver results.

.- Having a set % and applying that each year is lazy and will result in higher vacancies.

You can use hard money to match your skillset if you need to so you only need 20 percent down for a short time and you can pay the rehab costs on your own out of the money.

That typically results in a higher payment and an open end mortgage (Credit card) versus cash in the bank that can act as an Asset and PITI reserves where a Heloc cannot.Feel free to reach out if you have any questions, I enjoy helping and talking REI.

Verifying last 2 years of rental history and income extremely important to find the “best of the worst”.Make sure you understand the Class of properties you are looking at and the corresponding results to expect.The City of Detroit has 183 Neighborhoods we’ve analyzed.PM us if you’d like to discuss this logical approach in greater detail!

Total Active Listings: 2,349 (up 17% over last year)Total Pending Listings in the Last 7 Days: 248 (1% down from last year)Total Sold Listings in the Last 7 Days: 139 (1% down from last year)Average Days on Market: 40 (vs 36 last year)Average Sales Price: $359,167 (vs $335,323 last year)Number of Price Reductions in the Last 7 Days: 688 (vs 606 last year)Sales to List Price Ratio: 97.6 (vs 98.83 last year)Number of Expired Listings in the Last 7 Days: 152 (exactly the same as this time last year)Number of Agents: 8,518 (150 less than last year)Interest Rates: About 7% (vs 7.875% this time last year)Key takeaways: We're seeing more active listings and price reductions but less pending sales, resulting in a shift from a seller's market to a balanced market.

The last house I bought, was brought to me off-market by my agent, and it's seeming that off-market is the only way to get good properties without the MLS prices.I've recently got a nice business card printed up, and would like to start a direct mailer campaign, using BatchLeads to find multifamily properties in the local towns that I wish to invest in.I have a pretty strict criteria about what I'm looking to purchase at this time:-Legal 2-or-more unit large Multifamily (not required to be owner occupied)-Each unit should be at least 3 bedrooms (so if it's a duplex, it needs to be 6+ bedrooms)-Sewer (not septic)-Gas (not oil)A lot of this information is not readily available online, so once I start my mailers, I'm sure I'm going to find people who eventually respond, but that don't have criteria which match what I'm looking for.I feel like it would be a waste if I paid a bunch of money for direct mailers, and then someone reaches out to me to sell, but their house doesn't match the criteria of what I'm looking for -- I don't know anything about wholesaling.What can I do to monetize these leads, or is the answer is that I need to learn So we believe no lead is a bad lead.

They said the reality is that generating leads is tough and I should give it a full month before evaluating the results.

As a result I’m much more concerned with a borrower showing funds for at least a reasonable down payment.A problem with a screen shot of say a buyer’s Vanguard account is that it’s so easy to use PDF tools which can alter the numbers and be virtually undetectable.  

Here's how I do my due diligence:1) Portfolio matching: (takes 30 seconds per deal)a) Have an educated opinion on where I think we are in the real estate cycles (financial and physical market cycles)b) Then and only then do I pick the strategies, capital stack, and specialized asset subclasses that make sense for that opinion.