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In many cases the forum inquiries or forum promotions are for construction or as many would call “fix & flip” loans.

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I read your post from several years back - ”The Ultimate Guild to Grading……” very informative, and I’m assuming most of the insights still holds true +/- market changes on price points -   

Ultimately if you have a solid team in place that helps you navigate issues that arise you will be successful. 

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Ultimately I think it is very area dependent but I personally prefer to use the funds that you would use towards arbitrage in buying a property that you own so that you can start building long term wealth.

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They have to source off market product to make money and that requires time and expense.....but ultimately is worth it, depending on how many deals they hope to do annually.

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