My background is in retail and hospitality industry, I know all about the long hours and late night calls.

Chris Mason  not being a retail lending expert.. the folks that bought the manufacotred duplexs from us got loans maybe of a commercial nature and not FNMAthe stuff I am doing in Oakland now is all SFR.. so no issue there. and NO I don't tear the tag off.we affix it to a permanante foundation it becomes real property.

I am in retail management.

Not a lot of variety when it comes to restaurants, retail, coffee shops, etc. --- I used to live in Royal Oak (Metro Detroit), it is night and day 2.)

I call around for off market properties and so does my office worker every day.When you can show them the money and the track record  they start to listen.I have a call tomorrow with a developer for an off market retail center in the 5 to 6 million range.

I'm watching the MLS for deals everyday; retail is not a viable strategy right now (if you're looking for deal flow).Kirk

Account Closed Our retail jobs same time frame 6 months from start to finish to sale.

The only thing I could think of was that they were only looking at distressed investor sales (of which there have been many) and not retail comps.

Hence: wholesaling + taking ownership for a bit + full retail end sales price = "wholetailing."

For my commercial clients that buy retail properties directly they show financials that I look at.