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I am currently an account executive for a regional property preservation company dealing with the bid and invoicing for HUD properties, foreclosures, pre-foreclosures, bank owned properties etc.

Think to preserve your capital first, then cashflow.

I have capital to buy 1-2 properties outright but prefer to take out mortgages and preserve my capital for future properties.

I have heard on a few podcasts that asking to retrade should be the absolute last option, even after potentially leaving a deal altogether first to preserve the relationship and just tell the seller that it wasn’t the one for your team.Thinking bigger picture, if there is something negatively impactful with the property and it costs 10k to fix, it may be much more lucrative to eat that 10k on one purchase upfront instead of asking for a credit, to then make it on the backend, and potentially with more deals from that seller in the future because you were a buyer who made that particular transaction as easy as possible…Really cool concept, especially coming from the residential multifamily world where everyone does this pretty much all the time and it is very common…I would love to hear your guys thoughts!

Appreciation play and/or preservation of capital (legal/illegal) - or they can afford to look 10 years down the road and take a cash flow neutral/negative property to eventually go cash flow positive - which circled back to appreciation

That's one reason why LA has the Soft Story Mandate and some cities give incentives/rebates for retrofitting the connections between the floor joists and the concrete foundation.A simple retrofit could greatly increase the odds and help protect home owners / real-estate investors to preserve most of their investment versus having a greatly damaged structure that is too expensive to repair.

In addition to our property preservation field service business, I also own a bookkeeping business and have investors as clients.This is how I have them set up:Use the property address for the customer, then add each tenant under the primary "customer" as a job.

Also to preserve the vast, remote, and unpopulated  lands of the painted desert and petrified forest like some of the large ranch  land owners are doing.

Post property preservation, decide the rent of house.