But everyone else knows that too, so there is a ton of competition and slim margins for flips in that price range.

If you can't work deals at tighter margins - then you can't do MLS; (2) you need follow-up, people put random stuff under contract all the time, once it falls through you can step in - but you need to be there.

People care much more about the aesthetics of their property than saving a marginal amount of money on their already small electric bill.

I've tried looking for those myself, and the "safe" margin is 33% of ARV (in this case, acquire for roughly $500k)If the builder is aggressive, they could go for perhaps 40% but any higher and they risk losing money.If you have addresses, enter them into the County Map here and you can find the Last Sold price.https://gis.hennepin.us/Property/map/

To capture the real benefit you’d also have to look at the marginal tax rate.

Worked out well and I was able to give a slight discount to renter/purchaser without it hurting profit margin

Investors are always looking for:Doing more deals at once (quantity/capacity)Getting more profit per deal (margin)Doing deals faster (time)

I take what I feel the ARV will be minus any liens minus Buy, Hold and Sell costs minus estimate for the rehab minus an unknown contingency since most of these you cant get inside the property to look and then minus a reasonable profit margin leaves me with the most I can offer.

They have 80 plus contractors from very experienced to marginally experienced.

Search for independent studies vs. those funded by the window industry (who push the use of UPVC due to profit margins).