Investors are supposed to be knowledge and able to take a risk, otherwise they shouldn't buy from HUD.If your numbers were off that much you either didn't look at the house in person or need to work on your ability to assess a property quickly without a contractor going through every switch plate and door knob with you.

Here's a forum thread I started earlier this year that has some basic ideas to ponder:What to say when contacting an absentee landlord

You need a basic understanding of accounting, but I love the software.

Basically as an agent you can offer to do just listing in MLS, or listing + negotiating, or whatever.I've been debating if I should create a flat fee listing package for FSBOs/investors.

Basically you have to put in a blind offer.

I mean the mls is basically monopoly.

After at least ten different incidents where the "zestimate" was off, the asking price had either been lowered at least a week or more earlier, simple things like square footage were different from the MLS listing, tax assessments were incorrect, and estimated rent was pretty different from real time evaluations by my RE agent, I have finally decided I may be wasting my time...Does anyone on BP actually use Zillow effectively?

This could result in the tenant/buyer suing the seller, especially if she can't or doesn't return the option money.My basic rule of thumb is that if a seller is in financial distress, do whatever you can to get the deed (low cash offer, Sub2, Sub2 with equity payment via a seller carry-back 2nd mortgage).

It's over 100 years old but looks to be in decent shape and rentable basically as is.

At its most basic, a bitcoin is virtual currency.