In most cases due to the transaction sizes, there's very little margin for these 3rd party vendors (particularly brokers, property managers and contractors).

If the latter, depending on the jurisdiction, YOU may need to be a licensed real estate agent/broker to engage in what’s commonly called “wholesaling” but is actually “flipping”. 

In fact, if you qualify as a sole proprietor (real estate agent, broker, small business owner), you can have something called a solo 401k and use that to purchase property.

The seller could just have an unmotivated broker that doesn’t market the property well, among other reasons. 

I am a Jacksonville broker with experience with 1031 exchanges, but these properties are in 3 separate markets.

If you google anything regarding mortgage rates or refinancing, you only see lending tree and rocket mortgage or some brokers that will send your information to 1000 people.

Hey Nathan, I'm a local broker and PM.

As a broker, I do have access to about 15 companies that do helocs on investments! 

Hey Mike, I’m a broker and investor here in Sacramento, and I manage over 100 properties on Airbnb for investors.The Sacramento market is very stable, we do a lot of midterm business, but we like to mix it with short term in order to maximize cash flow and limit gaps between bookings, or “orphan days.“ When can we see the project?

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