If not feasible, consider increasing rent, reducing purchase price, incorporating future benefits, or targeting multifamily properties.

Those that respond “$0” or something ridiculous, you can request income documentation from them to justify.Don’t be afraid to share with them how much your property taxes & Insurance increased and that YOU cannot afford to absorb them.ALWAYS get an increase or something of value annually when rents are increasing or tenants will start thinking they should never have an increase, making future increases that much more difficult to negotiate.

My thesis was that this would lead to increased investment in the surrounding neighborhood and home values would increase.

.: Hello, I have been seeing increasing opportunities recently to bid on non performing notes on commercial properties that banks are trying to offload.These notes usually have the following characteristics:The note has reached maturity several months ago.

I will be increasing my savings amount to reflect as well.

Increase supply (or at least encourage development), and the prices will eventually come down (as we've seen in other large cities like Austin where the demand boom was followed by a supply boom - and now both sale prices and rents have gone down). 

There have been increasing issues with unincorporated JeffCo...

@Margaret Buoncora I have never done it but renting individual rooms could be an option if competition is increasing in your market. 

Update: We ended up backing out of the commercial deal, way too many issues going on and shady practices that we were not comfortable engaging with.Now the question is what to do with the chunk of money left after we pay taxes.

It will also establish legetimacy.... wholesaling is a sketchy business hence anything you can do to increase your credibility will only help your chances at success.