We are behind now which eliminates the possibility of using the eqiuty in the home.

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.

You're eliminating an unnecessary expense.

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.

you nearly eliminate the chance of the tenant deciding to misuse it.

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.

So if one was to attempt terms like this (I had been thinking about it a lot lately) The best way to set it up with the lowest risk from what I'm reading in your post would be to make the offer assignable and put some money down say 10-20% to help eliminate the risk of being upside down right out of the gate?

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?