I was thinking of offering a "likeness only" ad in the MLS (via my realtor), but am not sure about the process.

Like I said somewhere else on the forums, you can run ads for buyers before you actually have a prop. under contract.Just say "Handyman Special!

If they make every payment on time for a year or two, your investor friend can hold the note for a nice investment over time.I do think that giving them 80% of the payments towards equity is too much, he should consider much less.Tenants should be easy to find via newspaper ads with a prerecorded message to screen out interested people.

Comps in the area do not have them.I will be adding separate elec. meters and doing alot of rewiring, so even if I don't add the appliances, I may add the electrical circuits in preparation for a future flip.What is difference in rent between having a D/W disposal and not?

Over the past few weeks, we added a new referral process.

Put them in a database and email them property when you get it.If you call "We Buy Houses" ads, you are going to get other wholesalers, most likely.

It's also important to note that the United States added manufacturing jobs the last three years.

Since just about every seller is completely unfamiliar with real estate, and their agent isn't really offering them any advice save lowering the sale price and having lots of open houses with pies baking in the oven (not a terrible idea in and of itself- just not helpful by itself in this market) it's up to YOU to help.What kind of response to you think you could get if you ran a simple ad that read: Sell Your House As-Is for a Fair Price on the Date of Your Choice?

It compares to recent ads and current ads.

My folks had a rental and I helped them do some rehabbing, things like plumbing, paint, putting up sheet rock, tiling, adding bathroom fixtures, and other stuff like that.