With wholesaling, you learn the cash buyer market (aka investor market) and not the retail market as an agent (aka homebuyers market). 

I'm buying below retail at these prices already.

Just about to close on a warehouse-type building in the Crossroads that we’re going to put 6 residential units in and two retail spaces.

The bigger custom projects I do are what I enjoy the most and in terms of retail, are bigger ticket items. 

I currently house hack a duplex in the Ft Worth area and it is going great!

You also have to understand that if you are in an area that is dominated by investment properties, your retail value is going to be based on its ability to produce and income, not what Johnny and Suzy are willing to pay for it.I think that tougher neighborhoods should be handled by the locals.

Basically, the expectation that a purely retail FTHB "American Consumer" is going to just find something on the MLS at full retail market price, find a GC and pay the full retail market price for their services, full retail price for all materials, and all that, is completely out of whack.

The Roosevelt Mall is going to see the addition of 300 new condos, which will add more retail and better retail to the area, more traffic for sure.

Calling around to different septic tank / sewer contractors, they are telling me that a septic tank that is 70 years old will almost certainly fail a septic inspection, which kills the prospects of most retail sales.

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