He may be similar to me in that he will just absorb costs to make to customer happy (to the detriment to himself).

Hello Everyone, After spending the past month or two reading and listening to all of the information I could absorb on BP, I've decided that Wholesaling/Buying & Flipping is the way I need to go.

Looking forward to sharing what knowledge I can and learning all I can absorb from the pros!

So I have some knowledge of investing, but I'm looking to absorb a great deal more from the experts on this site to, hopefully, have greater success with my investing efforts in the future.As mentioned, right now I'm focused on Wholesaling and will be looking to possibly buy and hold or rehab later in the future.I'm open to all helpful information from those in the forum and looking forward to getting to know the group!

Many builders and developers can't seem to finance larger acreage developments and multi home tracts using traditional bank financing, and most of the developed land that was developed prior to the real estate crash of 2008 was absorbed in the last 5 years by larger nationwide builders.

Right the MMI on FHa is now for life if you put less than 10% down but realistically only maybe 2% of people using FHA put more than 3.5% down unless its for a strategic reason.If you have superb credit I would recommend you use 5% down payment and payoff the MI through whats called single premium lender paid mortgage insurance this is done by raising the rate high enough to absorb the mortgage insurance for instance instead of 4.75% you can opt for 5.125% and it will pay for the MI off for the rest of the life of the loan, or you can keep 4.75% but pay the SPMI in cash, or pay the stereotypical method of monthly mortgage insurance.If you're going from FHA to FHa refi thats a different story (streamline FHA refi).

I've been a member on BiggerPockets for a few months now mostly absorbing information as I'm sure everyone does when first signing up here.

I am so looking forward to absorbing all of the wonderful information provided by you fine folks here on BP!

The second level is supply and demand: How many units exist, what is the trend of vacancy, what is the trend in concessions, how many are being built, how many are in the planning pipeline, how many new jobs does it take to absorb a new apartment unit, how available is land for new apartments, how difficult is it to entitle, permit and build in the jurisdiction.

The problem is that when the herd of speculative buyers turn into mass sellers - there will not be a large enough pool of qualified buyers to absorb the inventory which will lead to a sharp reversion in prices.