I honestly belief that investors should stop looking for specic catagoeries/situations of people to find houses to buy, and instead focus on motivation (regardless is their house is vacant, tax liened, foreclosure etc. etc.)Do you really care that you get a vacant house deal, or do you care that you find a high profit deal regardless whether it is a vacant house or not?

The same amount of work would be involved for a deal 3x as large, focusing on larger deals.Bad tenants will cost you 100's of thousands of dollars.Business associates make better friends than friends make as business associates.

Richmond, Virginia, offers various opportunities in the real estate market.As you venture into wholesaling, focus on building a strong network, honing your negotiation skills, and understanding the local market dynamics.

Truth is many if not most markets have a lot of really poor, janky, fly-by-night PMc's and a serious lack of good, quality, value focused PMc's.

Ideally you have your own website as well for direct bookings and can put them on a Reviews page there.These are so valuable in this competitive STR market and will sway a traveler to stay with you or somewhere.For sure, start your own accounts on Airbnb etc and so you own them and this won't happen again.  

Person B has a family and wants to stay AND add person C to the lease to help with rent so the family has some stability and doesn't need to move.

Others would likely argue legislation is the biggest long-term threat to a successful well-positioned/lower LTV portfolio, but personally I'm more focused on the impact of 3-D printing. 

Between the market rate of the services I offer and at least several months of holding costs I can eliminate, I know that I can bake some legitimate value to a deal however I have no direct experience packaging that value way that could help secure financing.And that’s essentially where my research is currently focused!

One family needs to allow their cousins and aunt to stay with them "just for the 1st year" putting 11 people into the home.  

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