If you aren’t quite ready to jump into foreclosures or the idea of going to an auction is just plain scary, there are other ways that you can chop down the price of a home.

The difference between "up and coming" and just plain bad.

Unless the LL is at retirement age or is sick of LL, what would be the point of him selling you a house that has healthy cash flow?

., the guy who just about lost his shirt and needs to liquidate his assets for $0.70 (or even $0.85 for crying out loud) on the dollar–and these kinds of people typically would need a cash, not an FHA, buyer anyway–or that older widow who’s sick of dealing with tenants but still wants the monthly cash flow and would be open to seller financing.

They are working really hard because a family member is sick.

When people come in, I tell them first qualified tenant with a signed lease and money back to me gets the unit, plain and simple.

He is very old and sick.

If the wholesaler is getting close to the same offers way off of asking then they did something wrong plain and simple.The agent should have gotten a one time client agreement spelling out the seller will pay XX in commission before ever presenting the property to their client.It's amazing when everyone else makes mistakes they want the broker or agent to pay for it.In commercial real estate I stop all of that BS.

For example, the sign-up link was set to transmit credit card data in plain text (http).

They send out notices when we don't pay, and they can even repossess our cars and foreclose on us if we are just plain late.