"forex" represents the two words foreign exchange and refers to the cash market where foreign currencies such asthe Euro and British Pound are traded each day.They are traded on margin so they are highly leveraged.

Well most investment I see profit margin are too low, the risk level is too high, the time horizon is too long, the control I have over the investment is too little or zero.”

I use the margins to construct the transaction.

I guess just like any other investment, it depends on the numbers - the discount you get when buying as well as the exit strategy but I think my great hesitation is that at the higher dollar values, the margin for error can be catastrophic vs. much less when you're buying $50k properties.

It seems like there are so many fewer hoops to jump through and the profit margin is also a bit higher.

I think it's important to know the value of a property and what margin of profit you need to make and then to make offers on the properties that make the best sense for you within the established parameters.The number of offers you make isn't nearly as important as the quality of them and whether you get responses or not.

If you go thru a store they will add their margin on top of that.

This was a very expensive hobby.I am now confident in my LOW offers because I know from personal experience what the margins MUST be in order for me or someone else to take on a rehab project.

If you are flipping properties at 70% of ARV minus repairs in a strong market then as it slows other investors will need more margin.

But I worry a bit that all the transaction costs (time and money) in finding and buying the house on the front end, and and selling the house on the backend, with accompanying paperwork/legal/etc, would eat up so much margin as to make it difficult to make real money on the rehab itself (i.e. improving a run down property back up to 'market' value).For those doing 1 & 4 (straight flipping or rehabbing and flipping), how do you find properties priced low enough, and sell them high enough, holding down your costs all the while, to make a decent profit?