It's been for sale for around a year or so, maybe more.  

Purchase price: $50,000 Cash invested: $16,000 Sale price: $127,000 Purchased with a 75% loan for cash flow.

“To keep up with annual demand, the US needs 1.86M new homes (for-sale and for-rent) per year through 2033, based on underlying demographics and current undersupply.

I think recently there has been lot more houses coming to market for sale either with these changes or just the time of the year but it is not like pre covid times.

Would IRS then consider this a "sale" and I would have to pay capital gains on it? 

The successful wholesalers I know spend about $10k to $30k a month to generate leads for their sales team to work the leads.

Look for "For Rent" or "For Sale By Owner" signs. 

I’m thinking of offering an option to buy in the lease maybe after three or five years with no money down and the sale price would be the low end of the Zillow estimate. 

What should we do: wife and I are potentially taking an international rotation to Europe. We currently own a 4bdr house, about 370k left in mortgage, retail value ~580-600k, monthly mortgage ~2600 per month
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For example our bridge loan product is ok with your debt to income being to high at the time of purchase as long as the debt to income will be low enough to qualify once you rent (or sell) your current home.