Focusing on sellers can be a lot of work and time consuming, many owners have not gotten to the point that they are willing to do unconventional methods of selling their home and many need the cash to move.

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Real estate is by far the largest consumer expense, so if someone could figure this out they could create the next Walmart or even Standard Oil.Surely, property management was the answer, but property management is really just like any other business.

Im buying with cash at tax deed auction smaller homes and business under 50k where the deals arent as liquid and therefore fewer buy at these auctions.

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With fewer, or much fewer working years left, your ability to make up a loss is greatly decreased.

I couldn't imagine starting my rehabbing career with long-distance projects -- it would just be too difficult, time-consuming, stressful, etc.As for selling, there's a chance we'll have to wait until Spring to sell, but the weather is still pretty mild right now, so hopefully we'll have a bunch of showings before the snow hits, and maybe we'll get lucky.

You have just enough (by my standards of risk tolerance) to utilize a hard money lender to assist with a deal provided you have some additional consumer credit lines to fund material purchases to do a pretty decent rehab on an ARV 100K house or less, purchased at 70% ARV minus repairs, needing up to about 30K in rehab.For example, you find a house that is worth 100K retail.You see it needs about 20K in rehab including all holding costs not including debt service (utilities).You pay 70K (70% ARV) minus 20K = 50KYou get a HML and put in 10% DP = 5KYou use your remaining 10K to fund rehab and use consumer credit to fill out the rest (or a different combo of cash and debt, or you can get draws on the HML, but that is more expensive - of course you might need to do it that way because the HML may not want to work with a loan of only 40K).Now you have 70K wrapped up in the project plus there will be around probably 5K in HML fees for origination and 6 months of holding.

They are still getting the same number of properties under contract, but fewer and fewer of them are actually closing.

After conducting heavy research into real estate investing and after being more that satisfied with receiving passive income every month we realized that this could not only be a source of income to help us cover the cost of our newborn daughter's impending private school and college tuition, and later down the road a path to financial freedom and possible early retirement.Right now with our first property we are currently faced with an important decision if we pay off all of our current student loan and consumer debt it would free up an additional $2,000 that we can save for future investments.