I have used it in 2 rentals and my house and my parents house and I love it. 

I manage properties for my parents who are long time investors.

The property is 5 minutes from Manhattan, and my parents plan to stay in one of the 1-bedroom apartments.

I need advice on a possible wholesale.I have found a home that the owner needs to sale which was his parent’s home.The house is located 20 minutes east of Asheville NC in the town of Black Mountain.Black Mountain is a growing town with retirees moving into the area.The house is located down the street from a park/lake and about 5 blocks from the golf course.The owner states that the house needs about 30-40K of work to bring it up to code.Here are the numbers on the house:3 bed , 1 bath, 1100 sq feet on a .23 acre lotPer owner tax values is 142K and after repair value of 171K.The 171K after repair value he said was from a local realtor.He has a few quotes from contractors on repair cost that he says is in the 30-40K range.He is asking 75K for the home.I have not been inside the house.Recent sales in the month of September 2014 within a 5 mile radius are as follows based on Zillow2 bed, 1 bath 768 sq feet built in 1900 on .31 acres lot sold for 84K2 bed, 2 bath 912 sq feet built in 1959 on .45 acres lot sold for 195K3 bed, 1 bath 1000 sq feet built in 1919 on .29 acres lot sold for 158KBased on after repair value, if the house is worth 145K based on taxes I’m thinking offer in the range of 45-53K for the property.Here are my numbers based on ARV (145,000 x .70)-50K in repairs =51,500K for selling price.Also the property has an 8K lean on it by BB&T bank.This would be my first wholesale as I have no other experience in real estate other than buying my own home.I do not have an investors list, but will be going to the local real estate meeting next Monday for the first time.Any thoughts, opinions, and advice on what I should do from here are welcome.

Surprisingly many of our best absentee deals have been inheritance or parents who have purchase properties for their kids and now need to sell.

So YES we take every call and unless we're too slammed we try to meet every seller in person.Even if we can't buy their house, they might have a brother, aunt, parent, or friend that needs to sell fast for cash as-is...This is a people business and every person is a new "node" in your network... add as many nodes as possible by engaging with everyone that reaches out to you...

I am actually asking this for my parents..

I got into this deal with my parents.

My grandparent and parents owned and operated a 90 unit mobile home park.

Hi Alex,You could do this in theory however your issue is the co-signor co-borrower relationship usually FHA will only allow blood relative (maybe your cousin, brother, sister, aunt, uncle but friends will be hard but "not," impossible).This strategy is usually called the kiddie condo strategy because parents would at times want to participate in the real estate market when their kids went to college.