If so are homes that are at the same price point in neighborhoods that aren't likely to see the wrecking ball a fantastic long term hold play due to a potential future scarcity of housing?

When they're buying at market prices or over they are starting off behind the 8 ball.

You can look up the street interest rates for the year it closed in historical interest rates, I imagine, I just know about what rates were in my area for a long period....Rich makes a good point that it doesn't matter, if it's too time consuming, just make the offer, if you can figure it out quickly, it will tell you in a ball park what they might take.

In other words, how willing is the typical realtor going to be to make multiple low-ball offers on distressed properties on your behalf?

Then there are those like myself that don't always learn so well that way, but if are shown ways to do the job - they can pick up the ball and run with it.

If you were you seller would to you consider that a low ball offer?

I do not bellieve in the shot gun low ball offers in hopes that some stuff sticks and walk away from my other offers making excuses during the grace period/inspection windows.

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If you are doing 40,000 commission deals per transaction then you simply can't work on submitting 30 low ball offers for an investor to make 1,000.It's not the best use of your time.As a broker/agent you want to leverage yourself and work your way up into the larger deals.The small deals are okay as filler between the larger deals but you can't put too much time into them to detract from your larger deals.If they are time consuming and low pay then do not take them or refer out and take a referral fee.

The $18,000 is a low ball because as you know we receive an inflation increase on BAH every January which is between 2%-4%.