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Strategies where you do the work yourself, from house hacking to flips.
Tax lien and tax deed investing exploit the mechanism by which local governments enforce unpaid property taxes.
27 threadsA bird dog locates promising investment properties, distressed houses, motivated sellers, off-market opportunities, and passes the lead to an investor who does the actual deal, in exchange for a finder's fee.
40 threadsA listing agent represents the seller, marketing the property, advising on price, managing showings, and negotiating offers in exchange for a commission, typically a percentage of the sale price paid from the seller's proceeds.
21 threadsReverse wholesaling inverts the traditional sequence.
27 threadsDouble close wholesaling reaches the same destination as a standard assignment but takes a different road.
31 threadsLand development is the process of converting raw or underutilized land into buildable parcels, then selling those parcels for far more than the raw land and the improvement work cost.
22 threadsA live-in flip combines homeownership with the flip strategy: the investor buys a property needing work, moves into it, renovates it while living there over a period of time, then sells it for a profit.
36 threadsAn investor-friendly agent is a licensed real estate agent who specializes in working with investor clients, people buying property for income or profit rather than to occupy.
23 threadsOpportunity Zone investing uses a federal tax incentive, created to direct investment into designated economically distressed areas, by reinvesting capital gains into qualified projects within those zones.
27 threadsVirtual wholesaling is standard wholesaling conducted remotely.
32 threadsThe dispo-only or marketplace model focuses exclusively on the disposition side of wholesaling: selling contracts to end buyers.
24 threadsLuxury wholesaling applies the standard assignment model to high-value properties, typically distressed or off-market estates priced above one million dollars.
20 threadsThe wholesaler never takes title.
33 threadsOff-market deal sourcing is the discipline of finding properties to buy before, or instead of, their appearance on the open market, then profiting by putting them to one of the standard exits.
28 threadsDual agency occurs when a single agent, or a single brokerage, represents both the buyer and the seller in the same transaction.
28 threadsBRRRR stands for buy, rehab, rent, refinance, repeat.
35 threadsA buyer's agent represents the purchaser in a real estate transaction, helping them find properties, evaluate them, negotiate, and navigate the close, in exchange for a commission.
40 threadsForeclosure and REO investing means buying property cheaply at one of the distress stages of the mortgage default process and then profiting by reselling or renting it.
26 threadsAdaptive reuse is the conversion of a building from its original purpose to a new one, most prominently transforming obsolete office, retail, or industrial buildings into residential or mixed-use space, then profiting from the gap between the cheap, functionally obsolete building and the far...
22 threadsMultifamily development is the ground-up construction of apartment buildings, from small five-to-twenty-unit projects to large institutional complexes.
28 threadsCommercial wholesaling applies the assignment model to commercial real estate, multifamily buildings, retail, office, industrial, and other income-producing property, rather than single-family homes.
25 threadsThe full-gut flip is the deep end of renovation, where the investor takes a property in serious disrepair, often down to the studs, and rebuilds it: new systems, reconfigured layouts, structural work, full kitchens and baths.
30 threadsLuxury flipping is the renovation and resale of high-end properties, where both the capital at stake and the potential profit dwarf those of a standard flip.
24 threadsLand wholesaling applies the assignment model to vacant and raw land rather than houses.
28 threadsA broker owner holds a broker's license, the tier above a salesperson's license, and operates a brokerage that employs or contracts other agents.
30 threadsA luxury specialist agent focuses on high-end residential property, representing buyers and sellers of expensive homes.
22 threadsDriving for dollars is the practice of physically driving through neighborhoods to spot distressed or neglected properties, overgrown yards, boarded windows, deferred maintenance, vacancy, that signal a potentially motivated seller, then turning those finds into deals.
32 threadsJoint-venture wholesaling is the practice of two or more wholesalers partnering on a deal, splitting the work and the fee.
29 threadsMicro-wholesaler networks are coordinated groups of small, often part-time wholesalers who pool resources, leads, buyers, deal flow, and knowledge, to compete more effectively than any of them could alone.
31 threadsPre-foreclosure outreach means reaching homeowners who have fallen behind on their mortgage, after a notice of default but before the auction, and buying their property before they lose it, then profiting by reselling or renting it.
24 threadsCommercial development is the ground-up construction of income-producing commercial property: office, retail, industrial, healthcare, hospitality, and increasingly specialized assets such as data centers.
19 threadsThe cosmetic flip is the lighter end of the renovation spectrum.
36 threadsProbate investing means buying property from heirs who have inherited it through the court-supervised process that follows an owner's death, then making a profit by reselling or renting that property.
28 threadsGround-up residential development, often called spec building, means constructing a new home on vacant land with the intention of selling it, on speculation that a buyer will materialize at a profitable price.
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