Do you need to see the house before you agree to move someone's contract?

The part that jumps out to me is that you'd be describing a property you haven't seen to people who trust you. That's a different risk than being wrong about your own deal. I'd want language in whatever I send saying the info came from the contracting wholesaler and buyers verify everything themselves. Doesn't fix a bad photo set, but it sets expectations before the first walkthrough.

I look at maybe 300 units a year on the management side and I still get surprised by houses I've stood in. Photos are chosen. Nobody photographs the crawlspace they don't want you to think about. Even so, I've never once had a flipper buyer take my word on condition, they send a guy the same afternoon.

I move contracts for two other wholesalers and I don't drive to any of them. What I do instead is make them send unedited video, one continuous take, phone held level, narrating room to room. If they won't do that, that tells me something about the deal and about them. Took me about four deals to figure out that the video requirement filters more than my eyeballs would.

quarry, the continuous video thing is the first answer in this thread I could actually copy. Does anyone ever refuse?

Two things sit under this question. One is condition accuracy. The other is whether you have any right to be marketing the property at all, which comes down to the agreement between you and the contracting wholesaler and, depending on your state, whether what you're doing looks like brokering someone else's property. Marketing rules and licensing triggers differ by state and some states have gotten specific about wholesaler advertising, so that's a question for a licensed attorney where you operate, not for me. On the condition side I'd rather have a signed statement from the wholesaler about known defects than a drive.

Total beginner question, sorry. When you say "move the contract" is the wholesaler still the one who signs with the buyer, or do you? I can't tell from the thread whose name is on what.

rigging, from what I've pieced together there are a couple of ways it gets papered. Sometimes the original wholesaler assigns to the end buyer directly and pays the dispo person out of the fee under a separate agreement. Sometimes the dispo person takes the contract first and then assigns. Which one you use changes who's exposed and who gets paid at closing, and fathom is the person in this room who reads those documents.

The site visit is rarely about information, and five years running a service business hammered that into me. It's about being the person who can answer a question in nine seconds when a buyer calls. "Is there a basement?" If you have to text someone else and wait, you've lost the tempo, and tempo is the entire product on the dispo side.

I'll be the hard no on the drive. I do renovations. Anything you tell me about scope I'm going to ignore, because your $30k is my $52k every single time. What I need from a dispo person is an address, a price, access, and a straight answer on whether the seller is actually under contract. Save your gas.

harrow that's useful to hear but you're one buyer type. Somebody buying as a rental hold with no crew might lean on the description a lot more.

We run this as a service for clients and the rule we landed on is that nobody on my team describes condition in their own words. Ever. We forward the source material and we quote the wholesaler's numbers as the wholesaler's numbers. It's slower to write and it has saved us at least two relationships when a repair estimate came in double.

parcel, you said you froze. I do that too and I've decided the freeze isn't about the house. You didn't have a rule written down, so every question was open at once. Write the rule now while there's no deal on the table and the next one takes four minutes.

Every unit I own taught me something and about half of those lessons were visible from the street. I'd go look once, on the first deal from a new source, purely to calibrate how that person describes things. After that I'd stop going. You're not inspecting the house, you're inspecting the wholesaler.