Real estate is relatively easy and straight forward.

Alternatively they can purchase a portfolio of occupied homes at a discounted price because the seller of the portfolio in most instances first tried their hand at selling the homes individually to the owner occupant and after experiencing 13-15% in disposition fees and expenses realized its not worth the effort and better to package the assets and sell discounted to another investor.Keep in mind, most of these SFH's are in stagnant markets meaning limited appreciation and if you ever took the time to look at an amortization schedule  there's no meaningful principal paydown for many years.

My thoughts are that if it’s in good enough shape I can sell to a consumer buying with a mortgage company or if needs work sell to an investor for a discount to make a profit.

What Peter might have left out, unless you are paying a premium, if you're paying a standard rate.. and lets be honest if you're a flipper you're trying to get these services at a discount.. why is it beneficial for the Architect to drop their other projects to jump on yours to get it back into the City in a couple days?

You may have to take a discount.

If you can buy all your kitchen appliances at once and ask for an extra discount or at least free delivery & installation, that's great too.

When you convert an asset to Roth you have to get a third party valuation and often they come in at a major discount..25-60% so your taxable amount is way lower than the actual conversion.  4. 

Focus on building genuine friendships and strong relationships rather than jumping straight into partnership discussions.

purchased it deeply discounted What was the outcome?

We had to discount the heck out of those to get them sold.