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Hey everyone here's my story which almost sounds like it comes from a movie: we bought a house close to Atlanta airport through a wholesale company for $139,250 in August 2023 and we used a fix & flip loan to fix it up, refinance, and rent out.

Oakland scares me, considering renting out my home if I decide to leave the USA for a lower cost of living country in the future, although I know a few people who bought in 2008 renting their homes out in Oakland and doing well. 

It was bought off MLS.While I won't have final numbers until we list in the next couple weeks, and actually sell, I will say for us, it is hard to find deals.  

He sent me an address to a vacant lot and to a ups store as his home address.

Again, the BiggerPockets store has some books on this topic, or you can learn about it by watching podcasts, reading blogs, and interacting on the forum.

I learned this lesson the hard way when I bought my first investment property off market.You need tenants who stay for many years, pay rent on schedule, and take good care of the property.

We bought cars for single moms, dug wells for orphanages, bought gifts for AIDS camps in Jamaica and in early 2008 we were both told to give it all for 6 months to a couple we had known for a long time who had suffered some catastrophic setbacks. 

I bought mine from attorney and speaker Lee Phillips.

The danger is you'll be trading one transactional business for another.I would find others who have built a real wholesaling/flip business with systems so you can scale, and if you want, you have something to sell when it's time you've bought enough rentals.Good LuckGino