Account Closed as a parent with grown children (one of whom works for me) I can't help but think that your dad doesn't have a grasp of how dire your financial situation is.

Personally, I've transitioned to remote showings over the past few years using some home-grown workflows that allow me to screen prospectives, schedule them for the showing, and automate access and follow-up.

Again location matters, not every part of Charlotte has grown but you can absolutely push price and if your agent says differently i would get a second opinion.

I'd say the Alaska-based BPers have grown since then and so has Wasilla.

I know this is harsh but so is your ignorance, fact is cash home buying has grown 10,000X over in the last decade, sellers have TONS of options now online and they do the simplest most obvious thing any intelligent person would do, shop for their best offer. 

With all of that being said, because of the way I think I like to view things, I have grown incredibly found of the BP community as everyone here seems very welcoming, honest, and forthright about growing their business and sharing an immense wealth of knowledge. 

@Vincent PollittoLet’s just say his number were correct- I still don’t see how this would be a good deal unless your looking at long term (like after five years) because he’s putting $8600 down and with a total annually profit of only $2991 it would take roughly 3 years to actually “profit” off of this property unless of of course its appreciation had grown and he sold it year 5-ish for roughly 10-15k more than what he bought it for.

This is a very succesful creative investor who has grown a pretty large outfit and now has about 5 agents throughout the state.They do what I was already doing but on a larger scale so I can integrate well with that.

But in a way I was grateful (initially) for the circumstance as I knew thought that it would force me to try my hand at hiring out work.As back story - I've grown our real estate portfolio historically through shear will power and sweat equity, completing all of the work myself.

Second, over these years my wife and I have grown in our respective careers and our income has grown substantially, which is how we were able to take on bigger and bigger loans.Now that we are debt free, we are now saving money for our first "investment" property.RegardsSachin Acharya