Making Your Real Estate Offer As A Wholesale Buyer

Hi, this is Frank Chen with REIClub.com, the only site you need as a real estate investor. Today I've got quick video on structuring wholesale real estate offers.

Real Estate Purchase Offers

Formula Chart – Microsoft Excel

• calculate wholesale offers
• create tables and equations – plug in numbers, easy to replicate, free tool
• 70% ARV minus profits
• repairs – taking averages of your repair estimates is a good start.

Profits for End Buyer Real Estate Investor

• How much will room will the end buyer have?
• If you take to much, not appealing enough for buyers

Contract Clauses for Real Estate Offer

• 24/7 access to the property
• Request for key – inspectors, lenders, appraisers but most importantly your Buyers can get into the property with ease.

Contingencies for Purchase Offers:

For those who don't know what contingencies are:
A contingency is a provision in a real estate contract that specifies the contract would cease to exist upon the occurrence of a certain event. So if anything is found to be an issue with the following contingencies, the contract would be null.

– Request a 15 day inspection period
— potential deal breakers — foundation, septic bust, pretty much any big ticket items that could destroy your investment profit.
– Third Party Approval – partner, funder, etc. — they might catch something you didn't, always great to get a 2nd or even 3rd approval as long as it's done in a timely fashion.

– Earnest Money for Purchase Offer — this is the sole remedy for non performance — when people have their own money vested into a deal, they tend to take it a bit more seriously.

Earnest Money

• good faith to secure the wholesale contract
• put in as little as possible $10-$100, and $500 if a real estate agent is involved
• expiration date – usually 48 hours

Everything in writing:

• Verbal agreements do not protect you, written proof does.
• your responsibility – writing and signatures of all the people who are involved in the transaction
• real estate attorney – overview contract

Here are 5 tips on how to handle your earnest money:

1. Never give earnest money deposit directly to seller.
2. Make the EM deposit payable to a reputable third party – real estate brokerage, legal firm, escrow company or title company.
3. Verify that the third party will deposit the funds into a separately maintained trust account.
4. Obtain a receipt.
5. DO NOT authorize release of your earnest money until your transaction closes. (includes pass-throughs)

Structuring Real Estate Offers has many variables, and it will take a bit of time to fully understand the process. Just remember, as an investor making wholesale real estate offers, make sure everything that is agreed to is in writing and you have it approved by an attorney. This is the safest way to make sure your real estate investing contracts are solid, and you minimize your investment risk for every purchase offer you make.

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