Me and my wife are real estate investors and we live in San Francisco and both of us are in tech and do a W2 full time job.

By negotiating a significant discount, buyers can secure great deals while meeting the seller's urgent need to close the sale.

I have found that they worked really well when it comes to getting better tenants and better rents, and having less hassle, less headaches, and then getting a higher sales price; without paying closing costs or realtor fees.

The Due On Sale clause was added I think in the 1980s because of "sub-to" deals.

There is not a taxable event to you on the sale.

When foreclosures dried up, we went after short sales and when those dried up we started to focus on properties with mold or foundation issues and learned how to fix those and when that started to become too difficult and the rehab was not worth it anymore I had to pivot again and we buy properties in good shape that fell through with another buyer.

With record low inventory and sales transactions there's no low hanging fruit.In this market we think the best opportunities are value-add (BRRRR'ish), zoning changes allowing density (ADUs), or seller financing deals (buy a lower rate).

A lot of your returns come at the time of sale. 

Purchase price: $17,000 Sale price: $27,000 Contributors: Peter Vekselman Partner Driven and Archie Raglin acquired this property on 1/3/2025 for $17,000 and sold it the same day for $27,000.

Purchase price: $101,000 Cash invested: $25,268 Sale price: $202,000 This was my first ever solo project.