You may get instant responce (don't count on it) or it may take several months.

Even if buying under FMV with instant equity, a conventional lender wants to see skin in the game - a down payment.If the seller could loan you money collateralized by a different property and you owner-occ/house hack it, it would be possible.  

So now you have a property that is below market value in pretty good shape and instantly making money from Day 1.With Zillow/Realtor.com, you have to negotiate the price, fix up the property if needed and then maybe have to get tenants in place.  

I'll call first rather than text, and if they don't answer, the text I send will be one that conveys that they need to interrupt their morning to call me back, this is important and time sensitive (from a customer service perspective, you can't lock someone's rate without them in the loop, even if it's "objectively" the right thing).Trying to day-trade across days is much harder, there's no "glitch in the matrix" that yields foresight like the "glitch" created by the lag between when bond movement happens, and the couple hours it takes lenders to update rate sheets (in EXTREME cases, like March 2020, they CAN just instantly shut off locking entirely until they sort their stuff out, but in the "normal" world a business doesn't like to slam it's doors shut unannounced).

The last thing you can do in the forums is to try to get leads, you will get banned in an instant.

People now basically have "instant" access to what their home is "worth"..... 

We first started seriously looking into this last year, we found that Adair Homes had a very reasonably priced duplex plan, and so the plan was to find a piece of land, have the duplex built, rent out one side while living in the other, and use that "instant equity" they are famous for to leverage into another property sometime down the road.

Because of this- someone says it is probably worth 2 million and they instantly have most of that money spent.

Plus, you'd instantly add ~$250k in value (assuming an 8 Cap), increasing property's value by 50%.What's the deal with the commercial units?

I just rented out my previous SFH and moved to the Northern Seattle area.Cliff notes:-I'm in the Seattle market-My discount would get me approx 40-45k in instant equity with the SFH-Any 3/4plex I'd buy looks like it would not cash flow, at least not initially.