ALLOCATION OF TIMEIt is one of the most important aspects of ANY business to run efficiently and be profitable.People get contacted on here all the time from people with no money or they have 5k etc. and want to employ strategies that had traction back in 2009, 2010 when the market were frozen and sellers were desperate for anything.Now those same strategies are very, very difficult to pull off as all cash buyers and buyers with decent amounts of cash are ready to do transactions.

Either your seller is an executor of the will of a probate estate or trustee/successor trustee of a trust.Hurdle #2 - Slim chance your sellers will be able to access the line of credit as they're typically written in such a way as to terminate or be frozen upon death of the borrower.Hurdle #3 - If the sellers are able to tap the credit line, I'd say there's a higher than average chance the due on sale clause will be triggered.

This is why I think with tenant screening you couldn't land a great tenant in that area.I know investors that own around there and there comments are "We do not buy in these areas anymore because no matter how nice you make a place the people in that area just thrash it all over again".I looked there myself about 3 to 4 years ago when the market was frozen and things were cheap but the bad areas and high leftover property tax evaluations left me saying (no thanks) to investing down there.I do feel for these owners however I do not want to get religious but they are believing God will take care of the situation for them on the You Tube video.

Apparently, his bank account was frozen by our good friends in the IRS.We also hold back a significant amount (after job completion) for 90 days, run a search at the GC expense & ensure clean title etc.It's all spelled out up-front in the contract, no agreement no deal.

I've read so much information and now I'm frozen at taking action.

I think most people come in at last minute.I sat near the computer frozen watching the price go up.

We had suspicions that he may be cutting a different deal with the evicted tenant in the background, but could not prove it.Now as per the attorney he did receive the 15K payment from the evicted tenant into his trust account, but the trust account has been frozen by a judge due to unspecified reasons.

only you can figure that out for yourself.So, I'd say there are 5 ways:leveragetax advantages 'buying at the right price based on skilled, sound analysis'rehabbing/identifying 'best use'deal-making(wholesaling, bird dogging, note buying/selling)Some of these can be achieved passively:leverage + tax advantagesBut even those require the work up front to at least identify, analyze and purchase - and set up managementAnd of course: being your own PM, rehabbing project management(or hammer swinging), and all the deal-making options take constant investment of time.Deal-making is a non-starter for me, I can trade hours for dollars at a high rate in my regular business.Buying at the right price is not a skill I believe I have, I could learn it, and I read here a lot, but I am consistently surprised by how many things the experienced people on here point out that I would have missed or have never thought of.So that leaves me seeking leverage and tax advantages but frozen from buying due to my fear of becoming a 'learning example for ohters' by overpaying.So, like you, I suspect, I focus my efforts on my 'other business' and I keep my capital in the stock market.

Right now, I'm looking for multifamily B-class rentals (800-1,000 EUR / unit) in the core Maastricht urban area and I'm trying to wrap my head around 'innovative financing' (seller financing, lease options) to bridge the frozen market situation.There are deals to be found, though I find the 2%-rule BP talks about too restrictive.

If the house has been vacant, there may have been frozen pipes.