I'd love to see them ACTUALLY make money on it by selling to a retail buyer given all the gang activity.

From the perspective of the "retail" investor, the interface could be similar to prosper or lending club but the intermediary will need to have more financial information about the investor.

Our mall traffic was heavy, but not crowded and not too many people were carrying bags.I wonder if we are in store for a slow retail runup to Christmas after this initial surge the news has reported.

If you invest in a SFH, you have a bigger pool to sell to and can more easily sell at retail, whereas *usually* only investors are looking at muti units and most investors are going to only be buying if there is a big discount.

Even if they don't have equity in the home, advertise it as an owner carry to a retail buyer (not an investor) Ask for 20% of the top sales price down, in this example let's say $100,000.

But... if you are working on a deal where a retail buyer wants to put down $40,000 for a lease option to fix it, I would get the seller to take as little money as possible for the option and charge the rest as an assignment fee.

greg, i installed new hardiboard siding and painted itjon, thanks for the kind words...i have other apartments and rentals i hold..when i buy a flip though, i sell it...i know going in if i'm going to hold as a rental or rehab to flip to a retail buyer...however, those apartments i've blogged about are becoming my favorite property :)james, thanks and i look forward to seeing your next projects as well...what all do you have going on?

p=10714 People don't understand the risk and effort required to buy at auction, so retail buyer can't understand why the margins are so high.

I drive past MILLIONS of square feet of Commercial, Retail, Industrial and Office space that is EMPTY.

I was an investor for 10 years and then decided like the original poster to make some extra money by selling properties retail that we turned down as investments, etc. so I got my real estate license.