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9 Skills Agents Need to Work With Investors & Close 50-100 Deals a Year

The Close

Want to work with all-cash buyers who scoop up multiple properties per year, close fast, and won’t drag you to open houses every Sunday? Building the skills you’ll need to regularly pinpoint undervalued, off-market properties, advise investors, and close sometimes tricky deals won’t be easy. Overpricing the Property.

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9 Proven Strategies to Find Hidden Listing Inventory in 2022

The Close

In order to make your search easier, here are nine hidden listing opportunities and the tips and scripts you’ll need to close them. Begin with an MLS search of the past 12 months’ sales in the area your client is looking. Every agent knows that they can find expired listings on their MLS or using Vulcan7. Nothing else.

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Tips for Navigating Brampton’s Crazy Real Estate Market

Realty Biz

The best real estate agents will learn about homes that have yet to hit the market, whether someone is filing for divorce or bankruptcy. This allows them to show you the home and bid on it before it hits the MLS. Now you can choose the ideal offer, whether it is a higher price or faster closing date. Set a Budget Before You Bid.

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Peek Inside the DC Townhouse Linked to Disgraced FTX Founder’s Doomed Lobbying Efforts

Realtor.com

Getty Images / MLS via Realtor.com Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried was adept at wooing investors and lawmakers alike. Access to cash was no problem six months ago, and the nonprofit quickly closed on a deal for the four-bedroom home. ” Exterior Realtor.com.

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What Is a Pocket Listing and Why Would a Seller Use One?

HomeLight

The key distinction is that a pocket listing does not appear on the Multiple Listing Service (MLS), which is the local or regional database cooperating real estate brokers use to share data and information about properties for sale. How MLS listings compare to pocket listings. Are pocket listings illegal or banned?

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How to Find Out Who Owns Property in Your Neighborhood (Or Anywhere!)

HomeLight

Births and deaths, marriages and divorces, tax liens, bankruptcy rulings, and census data are just a few examples of information available to anyone who is willing to look it up. In fact, when you purchase a home, a thorough title review is conducted as an essential component of the closing process. We’re going public (records).

MLS 97
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This Is How To Profitably Find Houses To Flip In 2023

Kyle Handy

They aren’t closing these deals through PayPal but are trying to source a buyer as an FSBO homeowner. They want to sell their house without an MLS listing or an agent, so they list it on Zillow and wait for potential offers to come in. It only makes sense. At least for now, Zillow has paused its direct real estate investing.