The two main motivations seller’s opt for a sub to sale is (1) no equity in the property of negative equity (2) wanting to obtain a higher than market price. 5.

@Gustavo Nascimento has been kind and has not called out the CPA doing this return, so perhaps that's the CPAs motivation to deliver in 120 days instead of 200.

As someone that receives 100s of pieces of marketing, texts, and calls in a given month I can tell you that I put everything I get from some sort of automated caller/mailing system directly in the trash or just lose/block the number.

Through door knocking and finding the sellers motivation and pain points How did you finance this deal?

So I'll say it again, we only hear people talking about their 2012 success stories but we never hear about all the underperforming homes creating a sort of survivorship bias. 

If they don't hang up or don't say no, you need to keep asking questions and qualify the property for condition and the seller for motivation.

Our rehab costs were way less back then (especially when compared to new construction), before the pandemic caused all sorts of havoc in every area of our industry.There can be a lot of joy and fulfillment breathing new life into an old home.

@Gabriel Zepeda, There are a number of ways to "sort of" do this. 

The one in the pic looks rather easy and sort of inexpensive to duplicate.

You’ll probably get a contractor for all of these anyway, but if you can look at the problem (like a roof) and sort of figure out how it works to fix, you’re a good step ahead.