Cash buyers & investors are also skiddish due to the increase in crime as well as DC’s crackdown on AirBNB’s and tenant/friendly TOPA policies.

There are a lot of groups out there that basically want you to pay them to find the mentor deals, so he can take a slice of your deals. 

They then missed out on several more years of growth because they got out of the game and waited on the sidelines for things to look better. 2010 to 2012 was the period that cash investors were the players or those with IRA keep in mind investor loans were still basically non existent in those years for all those expect very well to do Investors beginners were not getting investor loans. 

Since you can't control the sale price, you basically have a $4k cushion to your reno costs, or otherwise you lose money compared to the as-is scenario.

I pay professionals for help and can do basic tasks on my own without free labor. 

I'm looking in miami florida for sites where we could get the numbers to work and we are getting close maybe in homestead. with that you could continue to pull cash out after it was built. in our market we need about .1 acres and we get land under 60k that the investors buy. the build cost is about 75% of appraised value or a little less. the investor refinances out on a DSCR loan and continues on. this strategy is ground up and it takes advantage of the buyers market for land in our market.

The best scenario for the buyer buying subject to is to have enough money and good enough credit to qualify for a new loan at current rates should the due on sale clause be invoked by the lender  

Hello, after the lawsuit are buyers representation necessary and required?

But, basically it's experience that wins the day.

You are paying 1k to have him as a potential buyer.