I suspect you are indeed going to see continued declines in your area.What you might try to do is some "what if" analysis.

Second, I assume a contractor, unless paid, would not want to continue providing estimates if he knows that I won't be giving him business (since I won't be owning the property) .

I'm new to the wholesaling thing and I am trying to build up my buyers list and just continue to research.Now, what I need to get a couple of contracts for sellers.

Get in contact with me and I will tell you about the huge growth to this area and how it will continue to grow quickly in the near future

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Here's a new article from USA Today that I thought worth sharing:FBI: Housing scams more than doubleApparently foreclosure scams are really on the up and the FBI expects the trend to continue....Thoughts?

Thanks for the continued votes everyone!

This has been a nightmare and is just continuing to get worse and worse.

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(or something like that)Bottom line... yes you can make a "profit" but the money then has to be spent on allowable items to continue the operation of the non profit.