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Flipping Properties For Large Profits

Today we’re going to make some money, your going to “flip your 1^st property”, what do I mean by “flip” you ask?  There are two methods for flipping properties, wholesale and retail.  When flipping retail there’s a lot involved including the buyer getting conventional financing which requires title seasoning.  Also a lot of the properties that you’ll be examining are in tough shape.  I like to focus on flipping wholesale for several reasons.

1. You’re dealing with professional investors 

2. You can build a relationship with the investor which means repeat business

3. A quick sale, a wholesale investor will use hard money to purchase the property so the sale will be with in days

The wholesale investor will buy the property from you, renovate the property and sell it retail.  We buy properties all the time from wholesalers; they get them under contract from the bank and do exactly what we’re discussing. At Fortress Investments we purchase properties, renovate them and sell the properties with a tenant in place at a wholesale price, leaving 25% equity.  We structure the financing in a way that reduces the down payment for the investor to only $7,500 total out of pocket. For us to deliver these types of deals we have to buy at a very good price, we don’t make a lot on each deal but we do volume, 5–10 properties a month. 

Just find an investors like us who buy properties on a regular basis, I discussed how to find these investors in the 3^rd post in this series called 5 Must Have Members of your Real Estate Investment Team.

Now that you’re officially in escrow your inspection period starts, have your realtor take you to the house for a physical inspection.  Bring your camera and take pictures of everything, I usually get roughly 20–30 pictures of a house we’re buying.  Upload these pictures to Picasa and call your investor friends and tell them about the smokin deal you’ve just tied up.  Email them the price along with the link to the Picasa wed album.  Put the property on CraigsList, this will help you find more investors in your area, the terms you are going to request are as follows:

1. Cash Sale with a 10 Day Close

2. $2,000 EMD (Earnest Money Deposit) Non Refundable

3. Buying in “as is” condition

4. Escrow Company to Be Your Choice (Use the same title company that’s holding the first contract)

When you have an investor that wants to purchase the property use a blank contract provided by your real estate agent to write up the deal, you should be fairly comfortable with the process from the 10 contract you previous signed with your agent. Open escrow at the same escrow company that’s holding the first contract and let the escrow agent know you plan on doing a “double escrow”.  The escrow agent will know exactly what this means.

Now let’s use the example we discussed in the last article Locking in a $15K Profit on your Very 1st Deal, we’re in contract with the bank for $125,000 and we’re offering it to the investor for $140,000 assuming the value of the property is $200,000.  This will give the fix and flip investor room for a profit and put $15,000 in your pocket.  A true “win – win”.

Your investor will have a $2,000 non refundable deposit and will most likely move to closing. The investor will fund the 1st leg of the transaction of $140,000 and the escrow agent will fund the 2nd leg, your contract for $125,000 and then cut you a check for the difference between the $140,000 and the $125,000 which is a whopping $15,000, Congratulations, you completed your first deal and made $15K!!.

You’ll get better at this and more comfortable, don’t quit if the investor backs out or if something goes wrong just persist.

This method works and works well. We’re closing a deal on Monday that we’re buying from a wholesaler, he got the property under contract from the bank and is selling it to us. It’s taking us a week to close the deal and he’ll make roughly $10k.  No bad for a couple weeks work and no risk….don’t you say.

In the next article we’re going to discuss how to build Momentum, I’ll share with you how to scale your business allowing you to do 3–5 deals a month.

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Happy Investing 

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