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Home Finance Real Estate Why some foreclosures never get on the market?
Why some foreclosures never get on the market? PDF Print E-mail
Written by Jesse Davis   
Monday, 24 November 2008 15:54
Let's take the situation where you are looking at a REO for which they want 25k and they have just come down from 29k. Apparently, the bank did not really look at it because it isn't worth that. To rehab it the house would have to be gutted; the only good part of the house is the structure. You don't want to rehab it yourself but you would like to flip it if you could get it for a really low price.
by JesseDavis


Let's take the situation where you are looking at a REO for which they want 25k and they have just come down from 29k. Apparently, the bank did not really look at it because it isn't worth that. To rehab it the house would have to be gutted; the only good part of the house is the structure. You don't want to rehab it yourself but you would like to flip it if you could get it for a really low price.

You would not be interested otherwise, but you don't want to let this property go just yet. The interesting part is a realtor who listed it didn't put a sign in the yard. No one knows the house is even available. Besides, sales comparables are 45-106k after rehab.

So why indeed there is no sign in the yard? It could be one of two reasons. One reason could be is the realtor is lazy.

Second, if a realtor knows what they are doing, it means they have investors or friends for whom they are trying to hold the house. Then they hope that nobody notices the property and they will get to sell it to their buyer who buys from them and closes all the time. They may know it needs to get to a certain price range for their buyer to be willing to pick it up.

Anyway, this kind of thing happens all the time; and quite frankly that is just business and building relationships. You want to be that person eventually. This kind of relationships helps to get successful in real estate business. They are not hard to build over time but they do take a little skill.

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