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The world witnessed many challenges in 2020. Igniting fear and uncertainty, COVID-19 affected spending behavior among consumers across the globe. Average annual expenditures saw a 2.7 percent decrease from 2019 as housing expenditures increased by 3.5 percent. While these changes signaled danger to many, others capitalized on challenges.  

While stay-at-home orders ruled our lives, every genre of reality television emerged. These shows helped us escape the real world and virtually jump into the real estate business.

Everything from finding dream vacation homes to rehabbing distressed properties, a reality television niche appeared for everyone. While some watched TV screens, others launched successful wholesaling real estate careers.

If you’re passionate about learning how you too can hop on this exciting train of opportunity, stick with us as we discover how to start wholesaling real estate for beginners.    

• What Is Wholesaling Real Estate?
• What Is...

Maybe you’re facing a pivotal point in your professional life where you’re asking, “Is this all there is?”

If you’ve ever considered the possibility of making a career move into wholesale real estate, you’ve undoubtedly wondered about the potential of your wholesale real estate salary.

We’re here to make sure you start wholesaling real estate the right way. This entails having realistic expectations about how much money you can earn on your real estate investment journey.

Whether you’re in New York or New Braunfels, given the state of the world today, there’s never been a better time to consider the possibilities of wholesale real estate.

As beginners in your quest to discover if this is the right fit for you, we’ll help you understand:

• What are the secrets to making the most money through wholesaling real estate
• How you can maximize your wholesale real estate salary
• Why this is a great time to consider...

Wholesaling is a wise real estate investment strategy that allows you to get your feet wet in the real estate market in South Dakota without significant capital or time invested. But, similar to any new business endeavor, a real estate wholesaler must understand both the benefits and the areas of concern related to wholesaling real estate in South Dakota, which are discussed below.

A real estate wholesaler’s work resembles that of a flipper but reduces some of the more glaring risks associated with rehabbing real property. This is because there is no need for construction, permits, or time for something to go wrong.

A real estate wholesaler enters into a real estate contract – which can be for owner-occupied property, investment property, or rental property – but typically at a price below market value. The attractive price is usually the result of the seller needing to move quickly or another financial challenge that requires raising cash quickly. Therefore, many...

Wholesaling real estate is currently one of the most popular real estate techniques - reaching the upper echelon of profit-generating strategies, along with its sister strategy, the fix and flip.

What Is Real Estate Wholesaling?

Real estate wholesaling is simply a type of real estate investing strategy in which an investor executes a legal contract to purchase an investment property – single-family, rental property, a multi-unit property, or otherwise. But before closing on the first purchase contract, they choose to assign their right to purchase the property to another end buyer.

The difference that exists between the two sale prices is known as the defined gross profit. Wholesale properties are often sold to other potential buyers from a curated cash buyers list.

A fully executed real estate contract awards the purchaser/wholesaler with a bundle of rights to purchase the property through the Principle of Equitable Interest or the Principle of Equitable Conversion. The sale...

Wholesaling real estate as an investment strategy has become one of the preferred real estate investments in today’s real estate market. Its popularity is because real estate investors who choose to wholesale –

• Have easy access to available wholesale properties in a digital landscape that includes online auctions, foreclosure info sites, and websites like Zillow and Redfin, among others.
• Have only small capital requirements to complete the wholesale deals in terms of the earnest money deposit given in good faith.
• And perhaps, the most important aspect of the current market – located in Stage 2 of a robust expansion stage of a real estate cycle –

Current Real Estate Market Metrics at the National Level

According to the Core Logic HIP index (an indicator designed to demonstrate early home price trends), prices for real estate and homes in the United States have increased 18% between September 2020 & September 2021.

Remarkably, this year-over-year...

The real estate market in the United States has been firing on all cylinders for the past several years, bucking conventional wisdom in the face of what is usually an extremely disruptive economic pandemic.

And while the cyclical nature of real estate is not front-page news to investors and economists, anyone paying attention to the current market recognizes it for what it is – a seller’s market characterized by expansion and appreciation as noted below in STAGE 2-

A ‘seller’s market’ offers real estate wholesalers a ‘prime time opportunity’ for investing because Stage 2’s property appreciation is robust and meets the most salient requirements of a successful wholesale deal.

Wholesaling real estate is a type of investment technique in which an investor, acting as a middleman, follows these steps –

• They find a rental property or an investment property that is listed for a price below market value, usually because the owner is...

Wholesaling real estate has become a wildly popular real estate investment technique, primarily due to the fact that it fits hand-in-glove with the current cycle of the real estate market. As noted by FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data), the third quarter of the median sales price of a home in the US in Q3 – 2021 has hit a new high – of $404,700, as follows (Note – the shaded areas indicate those times when the US economy hit a recession

The pandemic and the resulting shortage of homes inventoried for sale dropped to some of the lowest levels but has since recovered to about 5.7 months, as follows –

Wholesaling real estate as an investment strategy is also wildly popular with new investors for these reasons –

• The capital and cash flow requirements are minimal, which is typically the earnest money deposit
• These real estate deals are considered short-term in nature.
• It allows investors to learn the wholesale strategy and real estate market from the...

Real estate wholesaling has been splashed across investing headlines as the latest real estate investment strategy. But despite this media-induced hoopla, most seasoned investors know that this investment strategy is anything but new.

What has made real estate wholesaling a ‘hot topic’ is the fact that, as an investment strategy, wholesaling is an excellent fit for the placement of the current real estate cycle.

Understanding the cyclical nature of real estate investing helps real estate investors understand which strategy to deploy based on current market metrics and expectations. The real estate market is inexorably intertwined with the overall economy and is often impacted by domestic and global events – like Covid.

There are four phases to the real estate market’s cycle –

The current market, despite the pandemic, is currently located in Phase 2 – the Expansion Phase, the part of the cycle where prices peak – at the point where there is...

Wholesaling real estate has become a popular investment strategy for both new and experienced real estate investors. However, it is often preferred by newbies because, as a short-term strategy, it requires little in terms of capital investments – just an earnest money deposit that is held in escrow until the transaction is complete.

But, like all real estate investing, there are pros and cons to the practice and market factors that must be understood to be successful.

What Is Real Estate Wholesaling?

Real estate wholesaling is an investment technique in which an investor – aka – the wholesaler, enters into a real estate contract to buy a property - but chooses to assign the “rights awarded by the contract” (known as Equitable Conversion or Equitable Interest) to another buyer – with an assignment of contract, often before they have closed. The final buyer is known in the biz as the end buyer.

Real estate wholesale deals provide new investors the...

Successful real estate investors understand the concepts that define the real estate market’s cycles. This knowledge is pivotal in identifying emerging investment opportunities as the market enters each stage of its cycle.

The significant appreciation that the United States’ real estate market has experienced in the recent past is best understood by its entrance into the second stage of the cycle – Expansion - somewhere near the beginning of the 2020 pandemic.

It is noted that the market, at this time, bucked conventional wisdom as most world events (like Covid) that impact the global economy negatively ultimately impacts real estate in the same direction.

Source

The recent measured growth and appreciation characterize the phase of expansion with robust market metrics that include -

• Low vacancy rates.
• Rising rental rates.
• Rising home prices.
• New construction is visible and prevalent

"Stage 2" is defined as a seller’s market, which essentially means that...