If you're dead set on owning a house, find a smoking hot deal that will reward you for purchasing it.

Marcus Simon which neighborhoods are you playing in?

Your credit eligibility does not come into play here.

Sounds like an uneducated agent and a wholesaler playing games.Likely when based on a close to full price or full price offer there was enough in the deal for the wholesaler fee and the agents commission to be covered.Now that you want to buy it at a severely reduced price the wholesaler is trying to trim the fees to still make it work.This sounds like the wholesalers fault for not getting the property under contract cheap enough.

Read my blog "Let's play TIC, TAC, TOE" and save your money!!!

Hagerstown has great cash flow plays if that is what you are looking for.  

I have played around with the numbers and typically use average CAP rates as well as the 70% rule, but my first round of numbers is saying that I should not be paying more than $100-120K for the property.

The title company plays a huge role in the structure of the deal and how smooth the deal goes.

Hi Joey Noel,I currently live, work, play and invest in St.

Low balling is dead folks - sorry.