Purchase price: $325,000 Sale price: $325,000 The open concept design and fabulous porch and deck makes this a great place for weekend entertaining.

Going the wholesale route would be a good approach to get some practice with your pitch and see how many homeowners will even entertain the conversation.Your icebreaker message would be something along the lines of "Also, I actually have a real estate investor that I work with who is looking for properties in this neighborhood.

As others have mentioned an investment real estate agent has a pipeline of buyers and wouldn't be a horrible idea to entertain.

Obviously, this has big implications for everything from the solvency of Social Security, to the functioning of our healthcare system, to the environment (old people tend to have less environmental impact than young).Bringing it back to real estate, I've recently noticed several podcasts and articles about buying and operating living facilities for older adults (which, presumably, are experiencing an increase in demand--though this is an area of real estate that I don't know much about).As for inflation--the numbers that just came out this morning do not look good, and Powell will probably need to clamp down hard to get this runaway train under control.The "soft landing" seems less and less likely every day, but with change comes opportunity...Good luck out there!

I have been wondering if listing agents would be disinclined to entertain these offers if they will not receive their commission from a deal like this. the one time I tried to make a seller finance offer here in SA the seller wanted a substantial DP like you said.

Front porch or backyard make for great entertainment.

If the Seller owns the property outright they may entertain an offer with a large downpayment, competitive rate, and short term. 

A full price offer would mean the other buyer would simply break even on the property and not cashflow (depending on their down payment), even after raising rents to market rate.Needless to say, they did not entertain my offer of $217000.Questions:1.

There are a lot of "entertaining" people in the dirt business and she is one we can all live without. 

Small commercial multifamily is extremely popular, so sellers don't really have to entertain that type of financing.