Build vs. Buy: Which Is Best for Your First Rental?

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Would you ever buy a house built in the early 1900s? If you answered no, you might be overlooking the best deals in your market. In some areas of the country, most houses are old, especially the affordable ones investors target. So if your buy box starts in the 1960s, you're filtering out a huge chunk of inventory, including some potential home runs. Old houses do require a different playbook. Some repairs are surprisingly cheap, like new electrical might run you only five grand, but foundation issues or bad plumbing could turn your promising new rental properties into a long term money pit. The key is spotting those differences before you close. So today we're breaking it down. How to spot the old houses that are actually safe bets, which systems you absolutely need to inspect before closing, and the most common surprises hiding behind those old walls. Plus, we'll reveal the single best construction era to target on your next deal. The sweet spot where you can add value with modern updates, but the original build quality still holds up. What's up everyone? I'm Dave Meyer here with my co host Henry Washington. Today we're answering questions from real investors in the BiggerPockets forums and we're going to spend a lot of this episode talking about how to safely buy older houses. But our first question comes from an investor named Kyler in Birmingham. He says, hey everyone, me and my fiance just got engaged. Congratulations, Kyler. And I've somehow convinced her to house hack for her first home in Oxford, Alabama. I don't know anything about Oxford, Alabama, but that sounds like it sounds like feat, so congratulations on that too. He goes on to say, being in a smaller city, there's not a ton of residential multifamily properties in the area. Would it make sense to build a duplex as our first home utilizing an FHA construction loan? I can't find much information on people taking this approach. Instead of finding a pre existing home, I understand that the cost will be higher and there won't be any opportunities to add value through renovation, but I wasn't sure if those were big enough reasons to look into a different direction. I mean, this is a good question though, right? I mean, new construction has become pretty popular these days. So Henry, what's your take?

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Don't do it.

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Sorry, Kyler. I guess don't do it is the simple answer here. But why?

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Yeah, here's in all seriousness, I think that if you had construction experience or you're in a situation where you have three the resources necessary to pull this off, like you've got a great contractor that has a proven track record, you've vetted them appropriately, you've got the funds and everything all lined up and you've got the time horizon to wait for it to be finished, then potentially, yeah, that's a really good idea because you're going to get the benefits of new construction and lower costs. But building isn't easy. It's something typically that investors start to take on after they've had some experience doing some regular real estate deals, some value add deals, once they've got some more skills under their belt. So does it mean you can't have one built? I mean, people have personal homes built all the time. So if you were going to build a new home and you hire a builder and they take care of it all for you and the numbers make sense, then yeah, it might be an, it might a decent thing to do. But if it is something where you've got to go find the team, you've got to go get the loan and you've got to find the plans and, and hire the structured, hire the engineers and like, that's just a lot. It's quite an undertaking and you can make a lot of mistakes and it could not be as profitable or as easy as just going to buy something on the market.

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Yeah, I'm with you. I think this, this idea of build to rent, which is essentially what he's talking about. Build to rent combined with a house hack, good idea. I mean, I think the numbers probably would make sense, but execution wise, it's difficult for a couple reasons. First and foremost, if you already had to convince your fiance to house hack and she was maybe a little resistant to that, I'm just gonna throw out there that managing a construction project that you've never done before might put some straight on your relationship. Just, just. I don't know you guys, but I'm just going to throw that out there. That one could imagine that it might do that a little bit. The second thing I would ask you, Kyler, is why not just somewhere else? Like maybe you live in Oxford, you, you're passionate about this place. I just looked it up. It looks like a small town, but like, is there another place where you could buy a multifamily and it would be existing and it wouldn't be that hard? I say this one for everything. Henry pointed out the complexity of it. But the other thing I think a lot of people overlook is if there's not a lot of multifamily in this market and you build something that's unusual, you may have a really hard time renting it out. If Everyone else in that market is used to renting single family homes because that's what's available in that market. You could come in with a new product and it can be beautiful, but it might not be in high demand just because people in this area want single family homes. My guess is the reason there aren't multi family homes in this area is because there's not demand for it. So I think you have to just think about the product you're building and if it's actually applicable or an appropriate thing to be investing in in that market. So if I were you, I would either choose a different market or maybe don't go with a house hacking strategy. Rent something and buy a investment property. There's a lot of great markets in Alabama to buy just regular old rental properties. For example, it looks like Oxford, I'm looking this up is not that from Birmingham. There's good rentals there. Huntsville is a great market. There's, I mean you're not even that far from Atlanta. Some parts of Georgia, like there are places that you could invest in. So for your first deal I would recommend doing that even if that means giving up on house hacking, which obviously has a lot of benefits.

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All right, our next question comes from an investor named Nicole. Now Nicole asks on the BiggerPockets forum. I'm starting to look at some older properties pre 1960s in Columbus, Ohio. Previously my buy box was post 1964 trying to avoid knob and tube wiring and other challenges with older homes. But that is becoming a barrier to buying. So I'm thinking about expanding my buy box and looking for any advice on things to be cautious about or questions to ask. Here's what I would look out for in older properties. It's yes, obviously knob and tube wiring. So the same thing applies. I'm always looking at the big five. I'm looking at plumbing, electrical, roofs, H VAC and foundation. But these older properties, I think where they really can hurt somebody is foundation.

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Especially in the Midwest.

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Some of them have the old cinder block foundations. They're super wobbly. And sometimes even when you fix these foundations and you can spend 20, 30, 40, 50 grand to do it, the house still is, is sloped and wobbly. Like it's, it's not like you can just completely remedy these things. So it's something you have to consider when owning in this asset class and more so even if you buy a property that's older and you fix the foundation problems, if it's still a little kwonkaty on the inside, kwankety what is like, you know, a little, a little wobbity, a little wobbly, a little, little.

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Okay, kwankety, you've got a new one.

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You may have to sell that property eventually. And trying to convince somebody else that even though you spent 20, 30 grand on fixing that foundation, it may be a hard sell. So the first thing I tell you to look out for is to always have a specialist, a foundation specialist, take a look at the foundation of that property and give you their fair assessment on how structurally sound they think it is and how long they think it's going to last or if it's not, what's it going to cost to fix it? Because foundation work is, I think the, the number one thing that's going to cause you a big pain in the butt next is probably plumbing issues with old pipes. And make sure that you get a quote for what it's going to cost if you've got to re plumb that entire house up to new plumbing standards. Because especially if it's an older property and it's a, it's a buy and hold. If you're planning on holding this for, you know, 5, 10, 15, 20 years, at some point that falls on you to take care of. Right.

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So I'm doing this right now re plumbing a whole house. I think I've been telling you this for nine months because it's been going on for nine months.

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And what's it costing you?

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80 grand.

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That's a house.

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Yeah. Well, for you.

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For me, yes. For me, the things to watch out for in older properties is always going to be plumbing and foundations. Electrical. Yeah. Everybody says watch out for knob and two, but like electricals, you know, between five and ten grand, you put new electrical in like it's not the end of the world on electrical. Roof is fine, but yeah, roof, 10, 15 grand, depending on how big the property is. Not the end of the world. But plumbing and foundation, you can get up there into. Into almost, you know, six figures and having to fix some of those problems. So you definitely want to have an understanding of what's going on with those things prior to you buying or closing on an older property.

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I really like this question because I don't think there's a right answer. I think in the first eight years of my investing career, I didn't buy something that was after 1940. Everything I bought in Colorado was 1890s, 1920s, that kind of stuff, because that's what I could afford and those. The deals that I can do. So I feel like I've Learned a lot about this. I would still buy older properties. I think what you need to think through, though, is how recently renovated the property has been when you're buying it. Because if it's. If it's. Hasn't really been touched, if no one's done the work Henry was talking about of making sure the foundation is good, making sure the plumbing is up to date, you don't want to do that. Like. Like most people don't want to do that unless you have a lot of experience with this kind of thing. Like, I even talked to James, our mutual friend Flipper. He said that there's only a certain number of contractors he uses, and he has done thousands of deals for these older type homes because it is really specialized to be able to do this effectively. So I think the challenge here is that a lot of people look at these older homes and say, oh, that's a great value add opportunity. And there is, if you can execute it. And there are some things that I've been able to do successfully. But I will say everything costs more when you're doing these renovations than if you're, you know, you take out a tub all of a sudden, like, literally this happens and you're like, oh, that's a drain I've never seen before. Like, I just like that you can't get a part, so you wind up having to replace the whole thing. The other thing I would say is that doing a lot of the value add that is most valuable, like redoing a layout is very, very difficult. And so, like, I think it's the kind of situation where you can buy an old home if the layout is good, if the plumbing has been upgraded, ideally electrical, but as Henry said, it's not crazy. But like, ideally it's been updated. If all that's true, and you're just doing like cosmetic or someone's done a great job and it's like a really cool old house that's been renovated. Go for that. Like, that's fine. But I think it's the, like, hey, this is cheap. I'm going to renovate it cheap. It's tough.

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Another thing to be cognizant of is your heat and air situation. Some of these old homes have boilers. Oh, yeah. And these things vary depending on what part of the country you're in. But if you've got to update that to modern heating and cooling, especially if it's a property that's never been ducted before, your price goes through the roof in terms of what it costs to put modern Heat and air in there. If you have to do all new ducks and actually duck to house instead, instead of you spending five to eight grand, you spend 16 to 20 grand or more putting in H vac and modernizing H vac. So another thing to watch out for.

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What is your sweet spot year? Like if you could pick a year for a house to be from, what would you pick?

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70 to like 75? Yeah, because they're, the layouts are cool. They have big rooms.

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They might even have a sunken living room with like one of those weird couches built in couches.

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Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

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I think it's the sweet spot because yeah, you don't have the risk of knob and tube. 60s is good, but you still have some asbestos risk. So. Yeah, lead paint. Like if you get into like the mid-70s, the lumber quality was better than it is today.

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That's fine.

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It's true. Like if there's some really funny like memes, you can go look at the size of a 2x4 over time. Like it used to actually be 2 by 4 now it is far from that. But yeah, like the, a lot of the quality of the construction was really good back in the 70s and I, I agree. You see a lot like mid century kind of style homes. That layout is popular right now again, so I'd still try and find 1960s or more recent. But you might be able to find some gems in there in the older stock that has been upgraded where, you know, someone bought it in the 80s, upgraded a lot and now most of the systems are 80s quality. Like that's a little different than something that truly is like a time capsule, hasn't been changed in a really long time. All right, great question though, Nicole. Really interesting one. I think a real predicament and thing to think about for anyone investing, especially in the Midwest and the Northeast. You see a lot of these old homes. It's a, it's an important thing to consider. We gotta take a quick break, but we'll be back with more bigger pockets community questions right after this. Stick with us.

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Us.

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No, it's a good question.

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It's a good question. What do you, what do you do, just write $50,000 on a piece of paper and hand it over?

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Yeah, I give them, I give him a napkin with like Cheeto dust on it. Then I write a number. In my experience, let me put it this way, I've done hundreds of deals. I've used the exact same template for a rehab budget to send to a lender every single time. And it's just across lenders for different lenders, different lenders. And it is a very simple high level renovation budget breakdown. So I'll do a detailed scope, but when I send it to the lender, I roll it up to high level. And so I'm just going to read some of the line items that I have on one of my most recent renovation budgets. So I'm going to share my screen so you can see what it is that I submit to the banks. I've been using the same template here and it really is just the trade in one column and then the total cost for that trade on the other column. And it's a, I'd say it's a fair mix between enough detail so that the bank knows what I plan to do, but not so much detail that it's annoying for me to put it together. Does that make sense? Yeah.

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You're prioritizing. How annoying is this for you?

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Right? Absolutely.

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Like that.

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Absolutely.

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So you're thinking about it just so like the way your mind is working on this is these are the different vendors, like, trades that you're going to and paying to. So you're not saying, like, oh, I'm putting down X square feet of Y product.

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Correct.

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A flooring, you're just like flooring six grand.

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Yeah. So for me, flooring six grand, that includes the tile I'll use, the LVP that I'll use. It includes the carpet that I'll use in the bedrooms. It's just all rolled up into one. Interior paint. That's just interior paint that. If I was going to paint the kitchen cabinets, it would be in this same number. Labor and materials. Right. There's some individual items that I'll purchase in here. You know, toilets, appliances.

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Yeah, you get granular with some of it.

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Some of it gets a little granular. But for the most, I consider this high level because you can get a lot more detailed and behind the scenes. If I were to unhide some of these columns, you will see, like, the detail behind it, how many square feet of flooring or paint. But I don't show that to them. I just roll it up and show them. So when I'm building the spreadsheet, I'm doing it in detail and then I'll roll it up to give to the bank.

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Well, let me ask you this, because you do far more flips than I can ever dream of. But aren't you doing this anyway? Like, aren't you creating this budget when you're underwriting the deal? So, like, what additional work are you really doing here? Even to talk to the lender?

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Yeah, you are doing this work or you should be doing this work? Where this gets annoying for the investor is if you're shopping lenders, what they will do is a lot of them have their own templates for this that they want you to fill out. And it becomes very tedious and annoying to have to keep converting your spreadsheet into whatever versions they have. So I just use my own and I send that to them and I tell them, if you have your own template, that's great, you can put this in your template. But I'm just going to do this one time and. And I do it. Like I said, I do it at the detailed level, but then I can roll it up because I have to do it anyway. So I'm not really spending any extra time to build this for a particular lender. It's something I have to build anyway. I just give them a simplified version.

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And like, you've never, regardless of who you're talking to, what lenders you're talking to fine. No one's pushing back on this.

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No one's ever pushed back and said, you must put this in our template. I have had people say, we want this in our template. And then I just say, you can absolutely put that in your own template.

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Yeah, go for it.

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Yeah, ye,

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have fun. Do whatever you want.

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Have at it.

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I get that it's annoying to do it, but, like, if you go to the level of detail Henry has done here, which doesn't seem onerous.

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Right.

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Like, it's not crazy, you're just going to give people a lot more confidence in you. So, like, I don't see why you wouldn't. I. I don't see, like, quote unquote, say, just writing interiors, 50,000 or doing what Henry's talking about is a difference. What, 30 minutes of work? Like, yeah, just do that and get the lot.

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Absolutely, yes. It'll give lenders confidence. You're right. They're just going to do a gut check. And honestly, if I gave them this and they came back to me questioning the details of it, that's not a lender I'm going to use because that's telling me that the rest of this process is going to be equally as annoying.

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The one thing I will say is if you're a newer investor, expect a higher degree of scrutiny, and that's okay. Like, that you have to put yourself in the lender's shoes. And if they're going to make you jump through a couple extra hoops to say, like, look, I've done my research, I've gotten multiple quotes. I have good people lined up. Just do it. Like, I know it's annoying, but it's like a couple hours of work. You have to think about the scale of what you're asking for. Usually you're asking tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars for someone to lend you. It's not that big of a problem to do this because you should be doing it anyway for your underwriting.

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All right, Dave, we have another question coming in from Andrea in Houston. Andrea has a classic question about house hacking a duplex. She says, I purchased a duplex and I'm planning to live in one unit and rent the other one. I don't want the renters to know that I'm the owner, but I'm not sure how to do that. I have a realtor who will list and show the property, but I'll be the property manager and sign the lease agreement. I'd appreciate any tips on minimizing issues.

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When I first house hacked for Several years, I did this exact thing. I said that I was the property manager and that I had a partner, which is true. And so, like, when they would ask me questions, I would say, like, oh, I gotta go talk to my partner, which is true. But there were times when I just kind of like, you know, you want to distance yourself from it. And so this can be useful. I will just say, like, looking back on it now, I probably wouldn't have done that. Like, I guess I've just, like, gotten to a more mature place in my life, or, like, I just feel more comfortable having direct conversations with people about, like, what you're comfortable with and not comfortable with. I was just young, and I. I, like, didn't want to have hard conversations, and I was trying to avoid conflict, and it worked fine. But you don't need to do this.

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Absolutely not. You need.

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You can be the owner. It's okay to own the property. It's okay to say no when someone asks for something that's unreasonable. And I think, honestly, it just builds trust. Like, I kind of look back on that. I'm like, I wish I was honest about that. The truth was, I was a part owner. So, like, I could have just said that and have it been fine. I just think realistically, like, you're gonna tie yourself in knots to, like, create an illusion that doesn't need to exist.

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This is all based, I think, in, like, like, one bad story or myth or something that's made its way around, like, the investor sphere. Like, it. I've never done this. Anytime I've house hacked, they knew I was the owner, and I didn't have problems, and I didn't get excessive questions. No one bothered me. Like, it was fine. It's not a big deal.

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I would also think about the upsides of telling them you're an owner. Like, if they know the owner of the house and not just some random property manager is sitting next door, yeah, they might take more care of the property. That's like, maybe you could just focus on forming a strong relationship with your tenants, and then they'll stay forever and they'll like living there. I think that part I did get right. Even though I, you know, I wasn't fully honest about my ownership stake in these things. It's like, when I house hacked, I just tried to get along well with people. And before they moved in, I would sit down with them and explain what I've explained to every tenant I've ever had. I am a very reasonable person. I will pay for the things that need to be fixed. I'm not trying to nickel and dime you. I want you to have a good experience in this home. All of those things are true. And I would ask in return for them to be reasonable, like if they are going to be late, if they have a problem, just tell me and we'll talk about it. And it was always fine. It was always fine. So I just think that that is the better long term approach. I just see people recommending this, I think out of fear instead of realizing that like the best thing to do is just have an honest and good relationship with your tenants.

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My initial thought process when I was becoming a landlord and I was going to house hack was that I just assumed if they knew I was the owner and I lived next door that they'd probably take better care of the property. And I was more concerned about that. But I do the same thing you did with tenants when I, when they moved in. I just sit down and have an honest upfront, just open conversation. Because there's just such a stigma between tenants and landlords. And it goes both ways a lot of the times. And tenants just want a landlord who's going to take them seriously if they have a real problem. And landlords just want a tenant who's going to pay rent on time. And so I just sit down and have that conversation like, hey, my job, what I want to do, is to provide you a safe, clean, comfortable place to live. If something's wrong, like I want to fix it, I don't want you to fix it. Like, I want to do my job 100%. And so as long as you let me do my job, I want you to do your job, which is to pay rent on time. And if there's something that's stopping you, let's just talk about it. And that's it's always set a good tone.

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My general answer to this question is sure, you should work with wholesalers. I think where the question comes from is because there are a lot of bad wholesalers that kind of give the business a bad rap. And maybe it's disproportionate in wholesaling, but there's bad operators in every business and we still use other businesses. Every business there's bad realtors, you still hire a realtor. There's, you know, there's bad contracts. You still hire a contractor. So and that's scary when you're new because it's hard to know what to evaluate or how to evaluate if a wholesaler is a good wholesaler. And I also think there's two parts to this question. Slash answer. If you bought a bad deal from a wholesaler, chances are that's your fault and not their fault, right? That means you didn't evaluate the deal properly. Maybe you took the wholesaler at their word on what they said the property ARV was. Or maybe you took the wholesaler at their word on what they said the renovation was going to cost. When I look at a deal from a wholesaler, I pretend anything they say isn't there. I don't care how much they think the ARV is. I don't care how much they think the renovation is. I don't care how much they're asking for the property.

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I agree.

B

It has absolutely nothing to do with what I'm willing to pay for the property. The only thing that matters on a wholesaler's sheet when they send me a property is the address so I can do my own due diligence and so that I can underwrite that property myself. I can determine what the renovation budget is myself, and I can figure out what my offer price is. And even if my offer price is fifty thousand dollars or a hundred thousand dollars less than their asking price, guess what? I make the offer anyway. So the first part that I think you're concerned about, which is probably buying a bad deal from. From a wholesaler, that's on you. You have to evaluate every deal on your own with your own research, and come up with your own number and then decide whether you want to buy that deal or not. Now, the second part about this is fear of working with wholesalers because you get yourself into some sort of legal trouble because things weren't done the right way. From a legal perspective, this is a different problem, in my opinion. And this does happen. Sometimes. Wholesalers will market deals as if they have them under contract when really they're just available on the mls. Or wholesalers will daisy chain a deal, meaning they don't have the contract on the property, somebody else has the contract on the property. They found that deal that's already under contract. Maybe they said, all right, this wholesaler's got it in the contract and is trying to sell it for $100,000. I'm gonna pitch it to this guy for $105,000. And if I get this guy to say yes, then I'll go to the wholesaler who has it and say, hey, put me in this deal. I got you a buyer for 105. I just want to make my five. Like, that's the kind of stuff you need to watch out for, right? That's the kind of stuff that takes a little more knowledge to be able to know what to look out for and what questions to ask. So I would always make sure you under. You ask the question of the wholesaler. Hey, are you in direct contract with the seller? Right. That's a very upfront question and they should be able to answer that. Yes. If that answer sounds funky or funny or it sounds like there's some other stuff going on, then you should probably just stay away. There's other deals that may be able to get done a lot cleaner than that. 2. I would ask them about their experience. How many deals have they done? Ask them where they close those deals and then call that title company to verify that they've done transactions before and ask that title company, did they go smooth? Did everything work out okay? Does this seem like somebody that I, I should be able to trust based on the deals that they've done in the past? So you can verify their experience through the title company that closed their previous deals, if they don't want to share any of their experience or the title company that closed their deal, I'd probably stay away from, but I probably wouldn't do it. And then always, always, always ask to see the original contract between the wholesaler and the seller before you sign the assignment contract. Because an assignment contract is just an addendum to the original contract the wholesaler has with the seller. And when you sign that addendum, you're agreeing to take the wholesaler's place in the original contract. And so if there are things in that original contract that you don't agree with, you can't perform on or you don't like, you are already saying that you will do those things. So never sign an assignment contract without seeing the original contract. And now wholesalers may have an issue with this because typically that's going to let you know how much they make to get around this. I just tell them, hey, you can redact the original purchase price and you can redact how much your assignment fee. I don't care about that. I need to see what everything else in the contract says so that I can make sure that I can perform to this contract that I will now be legally obligated to perform on.

A

I mean, that's perfect. I have very few things to add to that. That was an incredibly good holistic answer. I will just say this. I think you should view wholesalers the same way you look at all of your deal flow. Like, you wouldn't just take a listing that you saw Zillow or sent to you by an agent or a pocket listing and be like, oh, that's the price I should pay because this person sent it to me. I'm going to buy it and I'm going to trust it. You would verify everything and Just treat wholesalers the same way. The second thing I'll just say is this idea that it's marked up too much. I hear this a lot. I understand that it does not feel good to do that. But your job is not to figure out who's making what before you get your hands on it. It's to figure out, am I willing to pay the price that we've agreed on. If it works at that price, what does it matter who's going to the wholesaler and what's going to the seller? Like, it doesn't matter. I know. It's like, gets in your brain. I've had those thoughts too. But, like, at the end of the day, if you're getting the deal at the price you need it to be at, don't care. Absolutely. Good for you. You got it. That's. That's what you want. Don't, like. Don't be mad because they made some money too. Like, I think that's kind of the right way to think. Think about it.

B

The last deal I closed from a wholesaler, I made $50,000 on, and I found out as I closed that the wholesaler also made $50,000. And I'm not gonna lie to you. I was a little like, man, you made 50 grand and you didn't have to do anything. But would I do that exact same deal all over again? 100% I would.

A

I mean, you're just a little jealous. Like, you did way less work than me, right? Same amount of money. Right. Like, it's. It's annoying, but, like, you still made money. So, like, you got to just kind of look at it from the big picture. All right, well, these were fun. Great questions for the Bigger Pockets community. Again, if you have them, go check them out on Bigger Pockets forums or answer some for yourself. If you can answer these questions, go help out another investor on the Bigger Pockets community. That's what the whole thing is about. Henry, thanks as always, man. This was a lot of fun.

B

Thanks, man. Good to be here.

A

And thank you all for watching this episode of the Biggerpockets podcast. We'll see you next time.

B

Sam.