The sample motivated seller questionnaire (and explanation paragraphs) on this page will equip you to avoid this common newbie mistake.If you're new to wholesaling or creative real estate investing, you can save yourself a whole lot of mental and financial anguish by asking a series of two or three questions to help you decide whether to deal with a property seller or not.The information you gather from a well crafted motivated seller questionnaire can also help you determine whether the property in question is worth investigating further, regardless of what you find about the urgency of the seller's situation.The section below will take you through a shortened sample form and discuss each section in detail.

The biggest hurdle for us at the time was that we have a flat roof and investigating the city's installation requirements for a flat roof seemed like the code requirement would just be setting you up for roof leaks. 

A safer assumption is that his tax returns are a mixture of fabrication and BS.The NY Times article from Dec 21 on this is interesting- it states that the IRS found numerous questionable write-offs over many years, but that the cost of investigation was likely higher than the benefits that could be obtained due to the complexity of DJT's returns.

Upon further investigation … I only see his wife with the expired TREC registration and I will file complaint with office of Attorney General as suggested here.

In addition they also admitted that they are still paying off the lease by automatic draft @ $25 a week.Still investigating and trying to piece things together on their employment and residential histories.

If this is the case, you might have hard times getting your $400 from K cause she can say it wasn't her obligation to do background investigation on numbers/names provided by tenants.

Maybe investigate the neighborhood beforehand.

If clean ducts were important, then you should have investigated before agreeing to rent and living in the home for ten months.

Idiot proofing the rental, investigating, and knowing how often it freezes in the area meanwhile keeping guests out of the hot seat by removing anyways from unplugging, great answer

The study identifies with forensic engineering detail the immediate Bonus Depreciation 5, 7 and 15-year personal property class lives qualifying portions of a building that are normally buried in 27.5 year residential or 39 year commercial categories.As a reminder, bonus depreciation will start to phase out in 2023.