@Valentina ManzatiTo make a smart real estate investment, consider location, potential $20,000 down payment, and rental demand in Florida and North Carolina.

@Grace Hartman Most of the time sellers offer credits instead of fixing repairs.

Due to a significant spike in demand, housing prices have skyrocketed, making it nearly impossible in some areas of the city to find solid returns as a real estate investor.

Quote from @Jacob Luong: It depends on what's in demand in our market.

Instead, target sellers who have an actual problem, sincerely engage them to learn the specifics, and then solve their problem (and ideally get paid)!

I put in an offer in a house after talk to the sellers agent she set the terms, we accepted all the terms them she add that the “seller” would not pay for the buyer commission (My wife is my agent, somehow she found out that).She asked for full price, no inspection, no contingencies?

Seller is selling a portion of a 20 acre lot that has not been parceled yet.

I'd also feel bad for the seller if at the end of this long process there wasn't a deal reached.Thank you for the other suggestions!

However, it started to get a bit tough since he is no longer in communication with neither me nor the seller and he is living in the house.

When I go into a market I typically build relationships with wholesalers and do my own direct to seller marketing.