That’s a critical distinction because our industry is so much about trust, empathy, and truly connecting with a seller.

I wanted to see what markets have both a relatively high rent-to-price ratio and high appreciation.

The same goes for coastal markets. 

Currently, I'm analyzing different markets to see which one will best match my strategy.

I cold call and go direct to the seller and I have a 3 person team that pretty much just calls all day long for me.

Seller finance the property- ask for an up front, non-refundable down payment of $XXX (which could be used as his primary residence down payment), payments of $X over X years at X interest rate with a balloon payment in X years2.

I'm extremely new when it come to real estate. I'm a second year accounting student in Ottawa ON and I have been looking into sales on assignment as a way to real way to get into the felid of real estate. I don't have...

Quote from @Greg Gallucci: I'm starting to look into the Huntsville market.

Bottom line, make it so that you never need the seller again after the transaction is closed.

The seller receiving cash to reinvest or lend and the buyer to receive the payments on the thousands of loans within the MBS.