In a lot of areas the gap between REOs and the general "retail market" has narrowed significantly.  

I will say though that most of the duplexes, triplexes and quads that hit the MLS are usually priced right at full retail or higher.

Never rent a house your intending to flip to a retail investor...

i have a voluntary repos a retail credit card and my school loan

Now back to low end assets, very rare you are every going to sell, and get retail prices in these areas.

If that is the pace of your passion then you are in for a very painful learning experience.

Is it becuase they can not find a retail buyer.Second point.

Hello all..I was wondering how do I go about getting a retail building what is the process & what should I be looking for as far as pricing..evaluation offer..etc..have no clue as a starting point & am solicitating all help..as I am trying to get a commercial space to run a buisness out of..I will have what the broker is offering later on today

But I am developing a plan. one that I hope will reduce my more formal entrance into real estate from five years down to 2 or three thanks to some of the ideas that I gained from Dawn in episode 29 and Paula in episode 35 and Seth from episode 39.I'm working out the average land retail prices per acre hear in Ohio as well as the average low for retail land hear in Ohio, and hope to have a more formal business plan hear in a few weeks if the numbers look doable for me, and I get some more info on marketing.

I mean I get it for SFH as investors are competing with retail buyers, and I get it for lower price investment deals let's say under $500K  where there may be a lot of inexperienced investors buying up properties but presumably the people picking up multimillion dollar properties are sophisticated investors.