Scheduling tours, cold calling, researching active, coming soon, expired and withdrawn listings, following up with clients, CRM management, lots and lots of phone calls.

I’ve done cold calling to try and get a wholesale deal but no luck yet.

Nobody thought these companies would ever go bankrupt, that they were too big to fail, and yet they failed anyway.Enjoy your profits, because the stock market is a cold hearted beast. 

My partner and I cold call a lot of owners and we had actually made an offer on part of the property before, less than half of the current total.

Purchase price: $91,000 Cash invested: $14,000 Sale price: $145,000 Bought from a cold call from a nice lady.

Either way, you should always vet a pool of contractors, sprinkle in some referrals as well as cold leads from places like Angies list etc.

@Drew BurseyIf you can form some rapport with the seller through door knocking or cold calling then you can figure out what they need to walk away.

So literally the city/county could stop it cold under your feet (risk of that happening depends on where it is).

Legally press for a partition which would force a court house sale (no body wins but another investor unless I try to buy it myself at auction to get rid of my brothers)2.

His English seems much better than my German, and I think he's just playing games / gotten cold feet, but if I'm going to salvage the deal, I think I need to take the language barrier, and this "I didn't receive that; don't know what you're talking about" game, off the table.