Nathan Payne made $5K on his first wholesaling deal but locked it at the wrong price because he skipped property valuation and had no buyers lined up before signing. He over-marketed to every Utah agent, risking Realtor Board violations, and learned the hard way that introducing vetted buyers directly to sellers during walkthroughs saves time and prevents confusion.
As I reflect on this, there's a lot of lessons learned that you guys don't need to, like, learn if you just learn from my mistakes. First of all, we locked up this deal at the wrong price because we didn't know what a deal was. We just didn't know. We just threw out a random number. Don't do that. You should know what your properties are worth. You can do a quick analysis. Now look, another thing is we didn't have buyers at all. We just locked it up and we're like, we'll find somebody. It wasn't as easy as you thought. And when you're under the gun, you got like 7 days of due diligence or 5 or 3, some Sometimes you don't find anyone fast enough. So going back, I would've done what I do, painless flipping now, and I would've gotten the buyer or had buyers in check and known people. So I would've been able to get buyers' offers quicker. And I wouldn't have sent this deal out to every agent in the state of Utah and gotten in trouble with the Board of Realtors. That's something I would not have done. And transparency, it would've been a lot easier if we just said, hey Donald, these are a couple investors we work with. We're gonna have 'em walk through your house. And you know, when they're done, they're gonna let us know what they'd be willing to pay us and work with us as we do this deal together.
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