There used to be a strategy, I believe a poster on the now defunct website Fat-wallet who went by the name Suckisstaples coined the phrase App-O-Rama for it.Basically you would do your homework and get a list of companies you would apply for and apply for them all in one sitting.

Take that from a 62 year old guy who is fat, happy and retired from flipping houses.

If you do have one of those jobs and you've been there a while, you're in fat city.  

If it doesn't I believe it's not valid...But I'm not sure how wholesalers normally issue their contracts that's why I posted this.It would be great to hear from a wholesaler in South Florida.yup a wholesaler who Is probably trying to rip a big fat fee out of the deal and does not want yo freaking out..

The rest I do mostly because otherwise i would just sit around getting bored and fat.

I guess if you have well-informed capable parties on all sides of the deal that understand fully (within disclosure limits) what's going on, god bless them if they can make money doing wholesaling.Just seems wholesalers love playing up the no money and then getting a fat check without any liability that concerns me - Especially if they represent the property as something it's not.

that's a foundation  some over East of there in the next states over are so bad the houses look like humptydumpty houses cracked like and egg and off 1 feet from one side to the other.. we have bought hundreds of them over the years.. its OK if your getting them with pricing in mind its not OK to pay the competitive values in Dallas then have to deal with them after the fact and that's what happened to us.. did not know what we did not know.. so it was a big fat OUCH.

Fat fingers.

LOLYou have to get them on the TOTAL cost of the total work they are doing.It sounds like the guy was quoting okay on the roof and then making much more profit on the gutters.When you split on him he raised the roof to keep his profit up.My buildings are just standard pitch with 4,800 sq ft 4 plexes.I got the roofs re-shingled for 1,500 a roof and the trash hauled away.You can find contractors that want extra work on the side that will do it for cheap.You have to catch them at the right time.It depends on what you are installing for.A long term hold for yourself,a short term hold where the building needs to be torn down for development in 5 years,a higher end flip.All will dictate what kind of finish you want and cost involved.Roofers typically love the retail jobs with fat profits but in between want the volume from investors.I tell many contractors NO all the time even after I tell them I am an investor and want rock bottom pricing.They tell me they will do it for me but not to tell the other investors what they charge me.This way they get volume from me and referrals and the other investors still get a really good deal but not the pricing I get.

Good thing about building your buyers list up nice and fat is that you may be able to find someone that wants it even though it looked like a non deal.