Wholesaling As A Real Estate Agent: The Complete 2026 Guide

Written by

Alex Martinez — Founder & CEO, Real Estate Skills. Has wholesaled and flipped houses for over a decade, personally acquiring 33+ residential investment properties.

RZ

Reviewed by

Ryan Zomorodi — Co-Founder & COO, Real Estate Skills. A licensed real estate agent and active wholesaler who reviewed the compliance and strategy points in this guide before publication.

✓ Updated July 2026 ✓ Fact-Checked 📄 Free Contracts Inside Watch on YouTube

Publication history: Originally published August 23, 2022. Previously updated January 8, 2026. Updated July 2026 with a full rewrite for licensed agents — adding an agent-specific step-by-step process, the commission-vs-assignment-fee comparison, MLS-listed deal tactics, and refreshed 2026 state-law and NAR Code of Ethics guidance. Compliance and strategy points verified by Ryan Zomorodi, Co-Founder & COO of Real Estate Skills.

Here's the thing most licensed agents never get told: your license isn't just a tool for earning commissions. You can use it to do the deal yourself — as the buyer — and get paid a wholesale fee instead. Same market knowledge, same MLS access, same contracts you already know. Different seat at the table.

The math is what makes people sit up. One of our students, Lee, is a licensed agent in Ohio. He put a distressed house under contract and assigned it for a $4,665 fee. That house sold for $56,000 — and if Lee had earned a normal commission on it instead, representing one side at 3% with a typical broker split, he'd have netted somewhere around $1,300. Same house, same work, roughly three times the money — and he didn't split a dime of it with his broker, because he wasn't acting as an agent on that deal. He was the principal. (Outcomes vary, and that's not income advice — but the structure is the point.)

That's the whole idea. When a house is too distressed for a normal buyer, or a seller needs to be out in a week, a listing agreement doesn't solve their problem — a wholesale contract does. The catch is that you have to do it right: disclose that you're licensed, know which "hat" you're wearing on every deal, and stay inside your state's rules and your brokerage's policies. Get those pieces straight and this becomes one of the highest-leverage things a licensed agent can do. These are the exact strategies our team and students use, and this guide walks you through all of it. You can download the free wholesale contracts here to follow along.

Can A Real Estate Agent Wholesale?

The confusion here comes from mixing up two completely different jobs, so let's separate them cleanly, because everything depends on it.

When you're an agent, you represent someone else — a buyer or a seller — and you owe them fiduciary duty. Their interests come before yours. You get paid a commission for that representation.

When you wholesale, you're not representing anyone. You're the principal — the actual buyer on the purchase contract. You sign it in your own name (or your LLC), and then you sell your right to buy the property to an investor for an assignment fee. Nobody's your client. You're a party to the deal, not a representative in it.

That distinction is the whole ballgame. A licensed person can be a wholesaler or a representative on a given transaction — but never both on the same one, because that's where the conflict lives. The question to ask yourself on every deal is simple: which hat am I wearing right now? Am I representing a client, or am I the buyer doing my own deal? Answer that, disclose it, and act accordingly.

So can a Realtor do this too? Yes — with one added layer, which we'll get to: Realtors are bound by the NAR Code of Ethics on top of state law, and the Code has specific disclosure rules for exactly this situation. A quick distinction while we're here, because people use these words loosely:

• A real estate agent holds an active state license to represent buyers or sellers for a commission.
• A Realtor is an agent (or broker) who is also a dues-paying member of the National Association of Realtors and agrees to its Code of Ethics. Not every agent is a Realtor.
• Wholesaling as either one is allowed when you act as the principal, disclose your license, and follow your state's laws, your brokerage's policies, and the MLS rules.

The takeaway is the same whichever title you hold: be the principal, disclose everything, keep the roles separate, and run the deal by the book. That's how you wholesale as a licensed agent without ever putting your license — or your reputation — at risk. (New to the strategy itself? Start with how wholesaling works for beginners.)

How To Wholesale A Deal As A Licensed Agent, Step By Step

The process is the same one any wholesaler follows, with two differences that come from holding a license: you disclose that you're licensed, and you get to use tools — MLS access, comp data, professional relationships — that unlicensed wholesalers have to work around. Here's the whole thing, start to finish.

Step 1 — Find A Distressed Deal (Your License Is An Edge Here)

You're looking for a property that's under-market and won't sell to a normal buyer: deferred maintenance, dated finishes, a seller who needs speed over price. As a licensed agent, you can pull these straight from the MLS, filter by days-on-market, price cuts, and "as-is" or "cash only" remarks, and comp them properly — advantages an unlicensed wholesaler has to piece together through third-party sites. The goal is a property where there's enough spread between what you can contract it for and what an investor will pay. (More on finding distressed properties and working with motivated sellers.)

Step 2 — Put It Under Contract As The Principal Buyer

This is where the "which hat" rule becomes concrete. You sign the purchase agreement as the buyer — your name or your LLC — not as anyone's agent. Include "and/or assigns" next to your name so the contract stays assignable. You're now a party to the deal with a real, binding obligation to perform, which is exactly what gives you something to sell. (For a line-by-line walkthrough, see our guide on how to fill out a wholesale real estate contract — this article stays focused on the agent-specific pieces.)

Step 3 — Disclose Your License, In Writing

Do not skip this, and don't do it verbally. In writing, before the contract is signed, you tell the seller — and any buyer you later bring in — that you are a licensed real estate agent acting as a principal in this transaction, buying for your own account, and that you intend to assign the contract. That one disclosure is what separates a compliant investor deal from an ethics or licensing problem. If you're a Realtor, the NAR Code of Ethics makes this explicit (Articles 4 and 5, covered below). Many states require a version of it too. It costs you nothing and it protects everything.

Step 4 — Line Up Your Cash Buyer

Before your inspection window closes, you find the investor who'll take the deal. This is where your professional network pays off: as an agent, you likely already know the flippers and buy-and-hold investors in your market. You want a real buyer with a real proof of funds who buys the kind of property you've got, in the area you've got it. Get this wrong — no buyer, or the wrong buyer — and you're stuck canceling inside your contingency. (Here's how to go about building a cash buyers list.)

Step 5 — Assign The Contract (Or Double Close)

For most deals, you assign: a short one-page agreement transfers your position as buyer to the investor, they step in, and your assignment fee is the spread. If the spread is large and you'd rather keep it private, or the contract can't be assigned, you double close instead — you actually buy and immediately resell, using two closings. (We compare the two in the exit-strategies section below, and in our assignment of contract and double closing guides.)

Step 6 — Get Paid At Closing

Send both contracts to the title company or closing attorney. Your assignment fee shows up as a line item on the settlement statement and gets wired to you (or paid outside escrow, depending on how you structure it) when the deal closes. The investor takes title. You never owned the property, and you got paid for putting the deal together.

That's the full loop. Notice what didn't change from ordinary wholesaling: you still find the deal, contract it, find a buyer, and assign. What did change is that your license gave you better sourcing and better relationships going in — and cost you exactly one extra obligation on the way through: disclose it, in writing.

Why Wholesale Instead Of Just Taking The Commission?

This is the question every licensed agent should run the numbers on, because the answer surprises people. The instinct is that the commission is the "safe" money and wholesaling is the risky play. But look at what each one actually pays on the same house.

A commission is a percentage of the sale price — call it 3% for representing one side — and then your broker takes their cut of that. An assignment fee isn't a percentage of anything. It's the spread you negotiate between what you contract the house for and what your investor pays. You keep all of it. No split.

Why does the gap get so wide on cheaper homes? Because a commission scales down with the price — 3% of a $56,000 house is small no matter how hard you worked it — while an assignment fee is tied to the spread, not the price. A beat-up house in an affordable market can have a big spread relative to its price, which is exactly where wholesaling shines and where the commission math gets thin. If you work a lower-priced market — much of the Midwest and South — you'd have to close a lot of retail commissions to match what a handful of wholesale deals pay.

None of this means abandon commissions. Plenty of deals are cleaner as a straight listing, and we'll get into when wholesaling is the wrong move later. But the idea that your license only exists to earn commissions is leaving money on the table. On the right deal — distressed, discounted, in a lower price band — being the principal pays far better than representing a side. That's the case for wholesaling as a real estate agent in one number: three times.

Wholesaling MLS-Listed Deals As A Licensed Agent

Most wholesalers chase off-market deals — direct mail, cold calls, driving for dollars — and spend real money doing it. As a licensed agent, you have a faster lane sitting right in front of you: the MLS. On-market, listed, distressed properties are wholesalable too, and in some ways they're easier, because a seller who's already listed has told you they want to sell. You're not talking someone into it.

The edge isn't just access to the listings — it's the whole toolkit. You can filter the MLS for the signals that flag a wholesale candidate: high days-on-market, price reductions, and remarks like "TLC," "as-is," "cash only," or "investor special." You can pull accurate comps yourself instead of guessing off Zillow. And you can call the listing agent directly and talk shop as a fellow professional. (If you don't have MLS access yet, there are several ways to get it — see how to get MLS access, even without a license, and here's what the MLS is and how it works if you're newer to it.)

A few things we've learned working listed deals that are worth knowing before you start:

The list price is not the price. A property listed at $400,000 does not have to go under contract at $400,000 — not even close. We currently have a deal under contract at $100,000 below list. On a listed property, the fastest way to find out how flexible the seller really is: call the agent and ask directly. "What price do I need to come in at today to get this under contract?" A lot of agents will give you a real answer, or at least a hint — and a hint is enough to know whether it's worth analyzing. Follow up with "how flexible is that?" and you'll often find there's more room than the listing suggests. (Outcomes vary — but the list price is a starting point, not a ceiling.)

You can turn one commission into two or three. This is an agent-specific lever. When you call the listing agent, ask if they'd be open to representing you as the buyer's agent on your offer. Now they can earn a second commission — both sides of the deal — which gives them a real reason to work with your offer. You can go further: if your cash buyer fixes and flips the property, offer the listing agent the relist when it's done. That's a potential third commission from one relationship. Structured right, an agent who'd normally earn one commission on a listing can earn several by working with you — which makes them want your deals.

Don't sign an exclusive buyer's agent agreement. Here's a trap for the unwary. Some buyer's agents will push you to sign an exclusive agreement, then blast you with listings you could've found yourself — and now if you contract any of them, they're owed a commission. That kills your economics. You don't need one buyer's agent funneling you everything; you want to work directly with the many listing agents who hold the distressed inventory. Keep yourself free to deal with each listing agent on its own terms.

Wholesaling Houses Listed With Agents (TOP 5 HACKS)!

Watch Alex Martinez, Founder & CEO of Real Estate Skills, break down five tactics for wholesaling on-market, MLS-listed properties as a licensed agent — working directly with listing agents, negotiating below list price, and structuring deals that pay multiple commissions.

 

The through-line on all of this: your license turns the MLS from a place you browse into a place you do business. On-market deals are hiding in plain sight — distressed, listed, and often mispriced high enough that there's real spread to work with. Most wholesalers overlook them because they're chasing the off-market myth. You don't have to.

Can You Earn A Commission AND An Assignment Fee On The Same Deal?

This is the lever that makes people ask "wait, is that allowed?" — and the honest answer is: it can be, when it's structured and disclosed correctly. On the right deal, a licensed agent can collect both a commission and a wholesale assignment fee. One of our students, Anthony — a licensed agent — did exactly this: he got a property under contract, lined up buyers, and structured the deal to earn a commission and an assignment fee on it.

Here's the logic. Those are two different forms of payment for two different things. A commission pays you for representation. An assignment fee pays you for the deal you assembled and are transferring. If a transaction is genuinely structured so that both roles are present and legitimate — and everyone is told, in writing, exactly what you're doing — you can be paid for both.

But this is the part where you have to be careful, so read it twice. The danger with stacking commission and fee is that it can slide into a conflict of interest fast if the roles blur. You cannot represent a seller as their fiduciary while also being the buyer profiting off them — that's the exact self-dealing the rules exist to prevent. So the double payday only holds up when:

• The roles are clearly separated and documented — who you're representing (if anyone) and where you're acting as principal.
• Everyone gets written disclosure of your license and your position, before signing.
• Your state's law and your brokerage's policy actually permit the structure. Some don't, and this is precisely the kind of thing to run past your broker before you build the deal, not after.

Get any of that wrong and you don't have two paydays — you have an ethics complaint or a license problem. Get it right and you've turned a single transaction into commission plus fee, which is a big part of why holding a license is worth it for an active wholesaler. But the sequence matters: structure and disclose first, collect second. Never the other way around.

The simple version: two forms of payment for two legitimate roles is fair game. Two payments while quietly wearing both hats on the same client is not. The written disclosure and your broker's sign-off are what keep you on the right side of that line.

Wholesaling And The NAR Code Of Ethics (Articles 4 & 5)

This section explains how these ethics rules generally work — it's educational, not legal advice. The NAR Code is enforced by local associations, and state law adds its own requirements on top. Confirm your specific obligations with your broker and a licensed attorney before you do a deal.

If you're a Realtor — meaning a member of the National Association of Realtors, not just any licensed agent — you're bound by the NAR Code of Ethics on top of your state's law. The Code is a real document with real teeth: violations are handled by your local association and can carry fines and loss of membership. For wholesaling, two Articles matter, and both are about the same thing — disclosure.

Article 4 governs buying and selling for your own account. In plain terms: when you buy or sell property in which you have an interest, you have to make your true position known. If you're the buyer on a wholesale contract, you're an interested party, and Article 4 requires you to disclose that. The Code's Standard of Practice attached to it is specific — that disclosure must be in writing, and provided before any contract is signed. Not a verbal mention. In writing, up front.

Article 5 is broader. It says you can't provide professional services concerning a property where you have a present or contemplated interest unless you disclose that interest to everyone affected. "Contemplated" is the key word — it covers not just the deal you're doing now, but a position you're planning to take. If you're eyeing a property as a wholesale target, that's a contemplated interest, and Article 5 says disclose it.

Put the two together and the rule for a Realtor who wholesales is simple: the moment you have — or are planning to have — a personal stake in a property, put it in writing and tell everyone involved, before anything gets signed. That's it. The Code isn't trying to stop you from investing; it's trying to stop you from hiding that you're the investor while wearing the trust of a licensed professional.

One thing worth saying plainly, because it's where Realtors actually get into trouble: this is the same self-dealing line from the earlier section. You cannot owe someone fiduciary duty as their agent while quietly being the buyer profiting from them. The Articles exist to force that into the open. Disclose, separate the roles, and you're compliant. Hide it, and you're not — regardless of how the deal turns out.

And a note on currency: the NAR Code is updated periodically — the current edition took effect January 1, 2026 — and the substance of Articles 4 and 5 on disclosure has held steady. But specifics can change, and your local association may interpret them in its own way, so confirm the current language with your broker rather than relying on any single summary, including this one.

Is Wholesaling Legal In Your State? (2026 Reality For Agents)

Wholesaling laws vary by state and change often — this is current as of 2026 and is educational, not legal advice. Always confirm your state's current requirements with a licensed attorney before doing a deal.

Here's the good news if you're licensed: most of the state-law drama around wholesaling is aimed at unlicensed wholesalers, and you're not one. As an agent, several of the recent crackdowns don't apply to you the way they apply to someone operating without a license. But you still need to know the landscape, because the disclosure and marketing rules apply to everyone.

The honest picture as of 2026: wholesaling is legal in most states, but the "just sign a contract and assign it" era is over. Over the past few years, a wave of states has added rules. A few examples of the shape of it — South Carolina has effectively restricted unlicensed wholesaling; Illinois limits unlicensed wholesalers to essentially one deal in a 12-month period; Oklahoma's Predatory Real Estate Wholesaler Prohibition Act (strengthened by SB 1075, effective November 1, 2025) requires a license to publicly market a deal and now sweeps double closing into its definition of wholesaling; Pennsylvania's Act 52 treats contract-assignment wholesaling as brokerage activity requiring a license, and Philadelphia adds its own municipal wholesaler license on top. Others — North Carolina, Ohio, Maryland — have added disclosure or cancellation-right requirements.

Notice the pattern: most of these laws hinge on licensure and public marketing. Requiring a license to wholesale is a non-issue for you — you already have one. What still applies to you regardless is the disclosure side: telling sellers you hold an equitable interest, not legal title, and marketing your contract rather than a property you don't own. That's true in nearly every state, licensed or not.

This is genuinely one of the quiet advantages of doing this as an agent. A lot of the regulation that makes unlicensed wholesalers nervous — licensing thresholds, public-marketing restrictions — you clear by default. Your compliance job shifts from "am I even allowed to do this?" to "am I disclosing properly and following my brokerage's rules?" — which is a much easier bar.

Because these laws change fast and vary state to state, we keep the full state-by-state breakdown in a dedicated guide rather than trying to freeze it here: see whether wholesaling is legal in your state for the current rundown on where you operate. Before you do a deal in any state — especially a new one — check that guide, confirm the current rules with a local attorney, and make sure your disclosure language matches what your state requires.

Wholesale Legally In Any State: Your 2026 Compliance Roadmap

Whether you are operating in a strict regulatory environment or a high-velocity metro market, staying compliant is the foundation of a long-term investment career. We teach you how to wholesale legally in any state, no matter where you are, giving you the specific legal structures and technical transparency needed for the current year. Start today with this guide to audit-proof your business and ensure every deal you analyze is backed by a bulletproof legal strategy.

Download The Free State-by-State Guide

The Honest Tradeoffs: When Wholesaling As An Agent Is The Wrong Move

Everything so far has made the case for wholesaling as an agent. Now the honest other side, because a strategy you only hear praised is a strategy you don't actually understand. There are real advantages, and there are real reasons to not do a given deal — and knowing the difference is what separates a professional from someone about to make a mistake with a license on the line.

The Real Advantages, Specific To Being Licensed

You operate on the right side of the law by default — the licensing thresholds that trip up unlicensed wholesalers don't apply to you. You bring credibility a seller can verify; "I'm a licensed agent" is a trust signal an unlicensed cold-caller can't offer. You have the MLS, real comps, and a professional network already built. And on the right deal, as we showed, the assignment fee can beat the commission several times over. Those are genuine, and they're why this is worth doing.

When It's The Wrong Move — The Part Most Guides Skip

When the house would simply sell better as a listing. If the property is clean, market-ready, and would fetch full retail on the MLS, wholesaling it is often the wrong call for the seller — and you owe honesty about that. Pretty houses get listed. Distressed, discounted, must-move houses get wholesaled. Forcing a wholesale onto a deal that should be a listing isn't clever; it's leaving the seller worse off, and if you're their agent, it's a fiduciary breach.

When your brokerage takes a cut — and it might. Here's a tradeoff the hype ignores: if you run a deal through your license and brokerage, your broker may be entitled to a split of what you earn, and you'll carry E&O and liability exposure that an unlicensed wholesaler doesn't. That's part of why our student Lee's deal was so clean — he didn't use his license on it, so he kept the entire $4,665 with no split. Sometimes the right move as a licensed agent is to do the deal purely as a principal, not as an agent, precisely to avoid the split. Know your brokerage's policy before you assume the license is always the advantage.

When you can't disclose cleanly. If a deal only works if you stay quiet about being licensed, or blur which hat you're wearing, that's not a deal — it's a complaint waiting to happen. The disclosure isn't optional overhead you can skip on a tight deal. If the numbers only pencil without it, walk.

When your state or brokerage restricts it. Some states and some offices genuinely limit what a licensed agent can do here, or how often. If you're in one of them, respect it. No single deal is worth your license.

Who probably shouldn't do this at all: a brand-new agent still learning fiduciary duty and contracts, someone whose brokerage forbids personal-transaction wholesaling, or anyone who can't yet tell the difference between "I'm representing this seller" and "I'm buying this myself." If that line is fuzzy for you, get the fundamentals solid first. The strategy will still be here.

None of this is a reason not to wholesale as an agent. It's the opposite — knowing exactly when not to is what lets you do it confidently when the deal is right. The agents who get in trouble are the ones who never learned where the edges are.

Should You Get Licensed To Wholesale?

This question usually comes from the other direction — not from agents wondering whether to wholesale, but from wholesalers wondering whether to get licensed. So let's answer it straight, both ways.

If you already have your license, there's nothing to decide: you have the sourcing, the credibility, and the compliance cushion, so put them to work. The rest of this article is for you.

If you're an unlicensed wholesaler weighing whether to get licensed, here's the real tradeoff, without the sales pitch. You do not need a license to wholesale in most states (the exceptions are covered in the state-law section above). But a license buys you three things that matter:

• Direct MLS access. This is the big one, and it's the honest reason most investor-agents get licensed in the first place. Both of our founders hold licenses substantially to get clean, direct access to the MLS — the same database of on-market deals we covered earlier. You can wholesale without it (third-party sites pull a lot of the same listings), but direct access is faster, deeper, and comps better.
• Credibility. "I'm a licensed agent" is a verifiable trust signal with sellers and other agents that an unlicensed wholesaler simply can't offer.
• Legal cover. In the states that have tightened rules around unlicensed wholesaling, holding a license puts you on the safe side of most of them by default.

Now the honest cost, because nobody selling you a course mentions it. A license isn't a one-time fee — it's an ongoing bill. Between state licensing fees, local board dues, National Association of Realtors dues (if you go the Realtor route), and MLS fees, you're looking at roughly a couple thousand dollars a year just to maintain it, plus continuing-education requirements and, at most brokerages, broker supervision and a possible split on your deals. That's real money and real strings, every year, whether you close deals or not.

So the calculus is simple. If you're doing enough volume that MLS access and credibility clearly pay for themselves — and you're fine with the annual cost and the brokerage strings — getting licensed is worth it. If you're brand new, unsure you'll stick with it, or in a state where you can wholesale freely without one, don't rush. Do a few deals with the tools you have, prove the model works for you, and get licensed when the math obviously favors it. The license is a business decision, not a rite of passage. (Curious what the license itself takes? Here's how to become a licensed real estate agent.)

Exit Strategies & Earnings

Assignment vs. Double Close: Which Should An Agent Use?

Two ways to exit a wholesale deal, and the choice is usually easy.

Assignment is the default. You sign a one-page agreement that hands your position as buyer to your cash buyer, they close directly with the seller, and your fee is the spread. One closing, little to no cost to you, fast. For most deals, this is it.

Double closing means you actually buy the property and immediately resell it — usually the same day — using two separate contracts and two closings. You reach for it in specific situations: when your spread is large enough that you'd rather your buyer not see it, or when a contract genuinely can't be assigned. The tradeoff is cost — you pay two sets of closing costs — so it only makes sense when the spread is big enough to absorb them.

For a licensed agent, the calculus is the same as anyone's, with one wrinkle: some of the recent state laws (Oklahoma, for one) now fold double closing into their definition of wholesaling, so it no longer sidesteps those rules the way it once did. Check your state before assuming a double close avoids anything. We walk through both in full detail in our assignment of contract and double closing guides.

How Much Do Wholesalers Actually Make?

Wholesaling income is per-deal, not salaried. You make an assignment fee on each deal you close, and that fee is the spread you negotiate — so what you earn is a function of two things: how many deals you do, and how good the spread is on each.

The honest range: assignment fees commonly run from the mid four figures into the low five figures per deal, and stronger deals go higher — but this varies enormously by market, property, and your skill at negotiating the buy. Lee's first deal, from earlier, netted $4,665; other deals pay multiples of that. There's no cap, but there's also no floor and no guarantee — it's earned deal by deal. (Outcomes vary, and this isn't income advice.)

For a licensed agent, the number that matters is the comparison we already ran: on lower-priced homes, one wholesale fee can beat several retail commissions, with no broker split. That's the whole reason to add this to what you already do. For a fuller breakdown, see our guide to how much wholesalers actually make.

Wholesaling As An Agent FAQs

Final Thoughts On Wholesaling As A Real Estate Agent

Your license was sold to you as a tool for earning commissions. It's more than that. Used as a principal — the buyer on the deal instead of the representative in it — that same license lets you wholesale, and on the right property that pays far better than the commission would.

The whole thing comes down to a few disciplines you now know. Be the principal, not the representative. Disclose that you're licensed, in writing, before anything gets signed. Know which hat you're wearing on every deal, and never wear both on the same one. Follow your state's rules and your brokerage's policy. Get those right and you've added a high-margin play to a business you already run — one most agents around you will never even attempt, because nobody told them they could.

It won't be right for every deal, and that's the point of knowing when to walk. Pretty houses get listed. Distressed, discounted, must-move houses get wholesaled. A deal you can't disclose cleanly isn't a deal worth doing. But when the property fits and the disclosure is clean, being the principal is one of the highest-leverage moves available to a licensed agent — and you already have every tool it requires.

Here's your next step, and it's a small one: before you touch a deal, write your license-disclosure language into your standard purchase agreement and save it there. That one move means the compliance piece is handled automatically on the first property you contract — so the only thing left to do is go find the deal.

About The Author

Alex Martinez

Founder & CEO, Real Estate Skills

Alex Martinez is the Founder and CEO of Real Estate Skills. With more than a decade of investing experience and 33+ residential properties acquired, he has personally wholesaled and flipped houses across the country. Through Real Estate Skills, Alex and his team have helped thousands of students learn how to find deals, use the right contracts, and close profitable real estate transactions. This guide was reviewed by Co-Founder & COO Ryan Zomorodi, a licensed real estate agent and active wholesaler.

Full Bio LinkedIn YouTube Instagram

Real Estate Skills is not a law firm, and the information in this article is provided for educational purposes only — it does not constitute legal, tax, or financial advice. Wholesaling laws, licensing requirements, and the NAR Code of Ethics vary by state and change over time. Real estate investing carries risk, and past results do not guarantee future outcomes. Always consult a licensed real estate attorney and your own tax and financial advisors before entering into any contract or transaction.