None were accepted yet, so learned a ton and happy to walk away from a few deals that weren't going to give me the return I wanted, or had big issues (e.g. septic - I decided to stay away from septic if at all possible)*Taking the time to encourage a friend who knows nothing at all about REI to take his first steps.

If you walk streets and drive 8 hours a day to net average of 1 deal per quarter @$10K assignment fee, then you are essentially working for free or for very very low compensation.

You want to make sure you know what you are walking into.

Make sure the down payment is high enough to make sure the buyer/operator think's twice maybe 3 times about walking away.  

I guess it always seems like they don't want to make low offers on my behalf or after you walk a few homes that don't work out they check out. 🤷  

Kindof making me think I should walk, buyprice too high.This is my first time buying a portfolio, I have not been able to view the active units as thoroughly as I have vetted all my other deals.

Most places I'm aware of don't allow you to have the only access to one bedroom be from walking through another bedroom, so will you need to add a hallway to provide access around an existing bedroom?

Also, can you walk me thru the emd I place & exactly when with the motivated seller if the cash buyer has a different title company for my EMD in mind? 

Over, and over again, until we just had to walk away.

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