The market for properties needing rehab for retail is tight.

Everything that's selling retail isn't losing money.

My friend has a townhouse with the intention of selling it a retail buyer for 285k.

I also need to arrange financing.However, there is a problem - I need to make sure I am the only potential buyer.If this was a retail purchase, I would put all my contingencies in the contract and proceeded with property inspection, etc.But with wholesalers - I heard - it is different.

And if the other three are correct you're paying full retail for the property.

You might suggest it as an alternative, but I think it will only be appealing to her at a "near retail price," which is bad for you.

Can anyone comment on what we need to know about wholesaling a subject-to house to a retail buyer (owner-occupant).

I have to tell them thats what the materials are RETAIL , not my cost .

Obviously you can do this with new or seasoned agents however realtors are a funny breed, trust me when I tell you I know, I own real estate brokerage with nearly 50 agents and even though we primarily focus on investments a lot of my people still do retail for living.Try to get them to understand what it is we do on the investment side of the process and people say anything and everything to dismantle the investment business model from it is illegal, unethical, doesn’t work here etc..

its not bad but not only do you want to know your ARV on the high side you want to know if that is a rental area or a Retail, homeowner area.