.- The spread is potentially fairly wide.

Otherwise, if you are going to use his funding...escrow will take the fee from your spread at closing.

That allows you to spread your capital out over a much larger pool of homes to really grow the number of properties you can acquire.

If I get a 2 year LO, I'm controlling the property with little down, make money off the spread and evaluate the purchase in 2 years.

If they are spread out it could work also but you need to find the closing cash buyers hungry for the market that the houses are located.

Let me start by saying this is not a post that is going to give you magic formulas or wow your market and potential renters into renting from you.This post will be a seed a prompter, if you will, to get you thinking about things that are abstract, yet will still have a major impact on how fast you get rented.Buyer behavior the bum and a meal syndromeIf you were a bum had no money at allyou could ask a thousand people for a meal and you may get a few mcdonalds burgers for your trouble.On the other hand, if you were Donald trump you probably would get many invites to some real spreads. why?

Ihave 95 houses spread across north, west, and east Tulsa.Me: It's excellent that you have such a large portfolio.

So you'd contract to buy the note at $80k or whatever, and then flip it to a note-buyer for $90k and keep the spread there.

buy and hold is dependent on the capitalization rate, i.e. the ratio between price and net rental income.A fix and flip strategy is dependent on the demand for houses in good condition vs the supply of houses that are available in poor condition, as well as the spread between the two.

I am searching sites:mls, craigslist, kijiji, vancouver sun, province newspaper, usellahome.comI am right now tracking properties in a spread sheet (both price that we are looking at buying and want to sell for) too see which ones are selling and in what period.I am also using bc assessment website to see what aprox. price the surrounding properties are worth and how much they have sold for.