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Houses for Wholesale: 3 Simple Steps

As a beginning wholesaler, figuring out how much to offer on a property is one of the most confusing aspects of the wholesaling process. It could typically take someone hours (sometimes days) of crunching numbers, running comps, and plugging figures into various formulas before reaching a decision about how much the offer should be and feeling comfortable with that amount.

Stephanie Davis, a wholesale expert has been in this business for that last three years and her method for determining offer amounts has changed quite a bit. These days she doesn't use any sort of formula and rarely run comps.

The strategy she now uses is pretty simple, and can be broken down into the following three steps:

Step #1

Choose a farm area and determine who the active investors are in this particular part of town. There are multiple ways of finding out who the active wholesale buyers are in any given neighborhood, some of which I have written about in this article, and also this one.

Step #2

Once I have located some active cash buyers in my farm area, I ask them if they are looking for more deals in the neighborhood, and if so, I find out EXACTLY what they are looking for, including price range, preferred type of construction, minimum square footage, etc. I try to get as much information from them as possible so I have a very clear picture of what type of properties they are looking for and the prices they are willing to pay for them.

If I have the buyer’s first and last name... Read more.

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