Do you need to see a house before agreeing to move someone's dispo contract

What stands out here is the position of describing a property nobody has seen to buyers who trust that description. That is a different risk than being wrong about a deal held directly. Any outbound material should say plainly that the information came from the contracting wholesaler and that buyers verify everything themselves. That language will not fix a bad photo set, but it sets expectations before the first walkthrough.

Property managers who walk a few hundred units a year still get surprised by houses they have stood in. Photos are chosen. Nobody photographs the crawlspace they would rather you not think about. Even so, a flipper buyer almost never takes the assignor's word on condition. They send a guy the same afternoon.

A common approach among people who move contracts regularly is to skip the drive entirely and require unedited video instead: one continuous take, phone held level, narrating room to room. A wholesaler who won't do that is telling you something about the deal and about themselves. That video requirement tends to filter more than a personal walkthrough would, since it is much harder to stage than a curated photo set.

Quarry, the continuous video approach is the first answer in this thread that an operator could actually copy tomorrow. 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 are 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 part is a question for a licensed attorney where you operate. On the condition side, a signed statement from the wholesaler about known defects is worth more 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, there are a couple of ways this 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 is used changes who is 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. It is 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 have 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 is useful to hear, but it describes one buyer type. Somebody buying as a rental hold with no crew of their own is likely to lean on the description a lot more.

Operators who run this as a service for clients tend to land on one rule: nobody describes condition in their own words. Ever. Forward the source material and quote the wholesaler's numbers as the wholesaler's numbers. It's slower to write and it saves relationships when a repair estimate comes in double.

Parcel, you said you froze. The freeze is rarely about the house. There was no rule written down, so every question was open at once. Write the rule now while there is no deal on the table and the next one takes four minutes.

Most of what a property teaches is visible from the street, which is the argument for going once. Look at the first deal from a new source purely to calibrate how that person describes things, then stop going. The trip is an inspection of the wholesaler rather than the house.