Nobody could come close to giving you a max cost price for this sort of deal.

I have a contract Im getting ready to secure this coming weekend from a motivated seller and going to market the crap out of it and lease option it to a buyer...

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You might try John's method with the expireds, might save some money knowing they were motivated to sell.Hit up older landlords, 60+, they need to retire, buy from them and might sell to thier tenant, wrap it.

I've learned that you can just about straight out ask sellers their motivation and in my experience 99% of the time they'll tell you the truth.

Hey BP, here are my two question to those of you who are finding great deals by marketing to motivated sellers...1) Based on standard sales you could find on the MLS, what would monthly rent be as a percentage of market value?

But in my mind, it's sort of an "overflow" play from SF, Oakland, Berkeley, Walnut Creek, etc.

Anyways, one thing that I have read about on multiple sites is the importance of a mentor and/or some sort of investors' club.

.$50,374 50,000..............................236,826...........................191,031 75,000..............................400,000...........................331,688 100,000............................563,935...........................472,344 125,000............................727,489...........................613,001 150,000............................891,043...........................753,658edit: sorry for all the .......... but it's the only way I could make some sort of table for this post.