Now Make sure section 5.B - the correct box is checked or you are on the hook for the commission.B.

If you had chosen to just flip the Contract to someone else "as is" (no repairs) for no other profit margin, you still would have kept that $200K that would have been spent on renovations, no fuss, no foul, it's your money.In month 14 after you have spent a lot of time and $200K on repairs, the owner gets drunk and plows his car into someone else and is found liable for killing someone. $2 million judgment against him. 

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The first 10 minutes were spent talking about reverse wholesaling and leaving out important parts of the actual activity.

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It'll be a regional bank doing them for a loss to build karma, or to check Community Reinvestment Act boxes, that sort of stuff... still kicking and screaming, but they'll do it, they have some incentive other than making a buck on that particular loan (they won't). 

I didn't come from a family with any knowledge of investing at all and growing up I wasn't really taught how not to be a sheep and think outside the box.

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If there was a crazy, "out-of-the-box" example of a land deal, ..."

I bought a s**t box house that would cash-flow, added some sweat equity, and went for it.