The more you put down will affect your cash on cash returns.I am bullish on retail but that's the space I work in.

Hey guys,I've been searching around and haven't quite found an answer to this specific question: How can I find the price ratios between distressed and retail sales in my potential farm area (one zip code for now) without going through an agent.... if that's even possible??

We had a CRAZY amount of retail buyer interest, so we decided to go ahead and rehab for a "hopefully" better profit!   

You would have to look towards niche lenders, generally retail banks in the USA like Chase, Wells Fargo, forget it unless you can find someone in their head offices to talk to.3.

Which also jives with reports of retail revenue being down as well.

Look at Mark Ferguson he's buying houses left and right off the MLS and flipping them or making great rentals out of them when a bunch of people will piss and moan that there aren't any deals.Let me know what exactly you're looking for, I market off the MLS and maybe I can't buy it cheap enough to make it a deal for me, but if you can buy it and live in it and improve it a 10% discount might be great for you compared to paying full retail.

Rapidly growing suburbs with good public schools: The southwest part of town has booming population growth, tons of new retail and great schools.

If I was paying retail for it by having it built by another Builder, or for a site built, it would've cost another $100-125K for their profit in there just on the house.

I think for right now the hay-days of selling for massive profits are gone for the moment.

I have heard of some massive drops in price that have been negotiated.