How to comp 10 properties in under 10 minutes with Batch leads

What is going on everybody? We are live. But hey, actually, uh, I want to do a countdown. I just found out you can do this, so let's actually do this countdown. I'll be right back, David.

All right, let's do it.

Hey, that was classic. That was classy, huh?

That was perfect.

Yes sir. Okay everybody, so if you're watching live, what are we going to do today? We are going to show you exactly how to run comps using batch leads. 10 properties in under 10 minutes. Can we do it? We're about to find out, guys, because look, Running comps, it can take all day. It can take years. It can take as long as you want. I've talked to new investors that like, they're run— they've been running comps for a long time, you know, and they almost use it as an excuse. They're like, oh, I just got to run comps. Uh, and I'm like, wait, hold on, have you even talked to the seller to know if they want to sell? And they're like, no, I just wanted to know what I would offer before I even talked to them. Like, complete waste of time, right, David?

All the time. It happens all the time because— and then how many times have you done that? And then you go to call them, but they don't pick up.

Yeah, bro, that's the worst. It's like, hey, you do all this research before because you're new and you want to be prepared, and then they're not even selling, or they don't answer, or you have— you can't even get the right info. You can't even skip trace the right info for some reason, right? So everybody that's watching, let's go do— let's dive in, because if you take too long, like I said, it will, it will kind of slow the flow. And we're going to show you how you can use batch to to, uh, do that. So I got my vibe board. I can't show you guys on my computer because this is, uh, streamed on YouTube, and if they— it shows the, the information on my computer screen when I share it of Batch, then they'll flag it because it's, it's got like personal information on it. So I'm going to show you on my screen. You're gonna have to try your best to see it, at least follow along with me. So here what we have, we're going to be going through today, is there's a wholesaler. I'm in the Orlando market right now, and there's a wholesaler. His name is Nash, but his company is called Nasty. He's got the nasty deals. All right. And we're going to look at some of his nasty deals and see if they're deals or not quickly. And if they are, great. We're going to, you know, we're going to analyze them. And but look, there's enough deals that wholesalers send out, the agents send out that you can analyze. And the cool thing is usually like when a wholesaler sends out a deal, their asking price is usually where it should be a deal. That's usually where it should be a deal, right, David? If they're actually— if they're running their numbers the right way, right?

Yes. Ideally, it would be nice to just give that price to somebody and that's it.

It would be nice, but unfortunately that's not always the case. So we are going to go right here. So this is 928 Edgewater Circle. So we're going to find out really what is the ARV of this property? What could it sell for? And, uh, if the price of $221,000 is actually a deal, and I actually already know the answer to this. And, uh, because I already asked the buyer what he would pay, and it was— we'll talk about that, but let's go right here. So you guys, that's the property we're looking at right now. Um, let's run some comps on it. So if you guys can see my screen back here, what we're going to do with Batch Leads is we're going to go here to the side where it says, uh, property search, and then we're going to type in that address, which again is, uh, 928 Edgewater. Edgewater.

Edgewater Circle.

Edgewater Circle in Eustis, Florida. Okay, so once you press search, Batch should find the property, uh, details for you. And right here it says that— it says that the house is pending. I don't know if you guys can see this, but pending means that it's, uh, under contract. It's on the MLS. So we're going to go to details. So Right here, we see that the house is listed for $247,000. So this property is actually on market, but Nashdy got it under contract for less than $221,000, and he's trying to sell for $221,000. So that means, you know, he's trying to make— who knows? Who knows what he's got under? Maybe he's got a $5K spread, a $10K spread. I don't know. David, you know what the really cool thing about this is? If you can see here, I actually can zoom in on that, bro. That's freaking tight. Nice. It says, uh, $297,000 is the, uh, estimated value of this property. David, that's, that's freaking solid. That's spot on because me and you talked about this property yesterday. $297,000 for the estimated value is, is legit, like right on, right on spot, like what this house would be worth, uh, fixed up. So thanks to Batch, We just ran the comp. You can trust that that works. Now, the problem— there's a couple problems though, trusting just immediately the value is there's some states that are non-disclosure and it's, you know, you're not going to be able to get a good, accurate estimate, whether it's Zillow, Redfin or anything. It's going to be kind of tough. Another thing is if you're in an area where there's a bunch of different properties that like there's a million-dollar house next to a $100,000 house, it's going to be tough. So I don't always trust that, but I just looking at them like that's freaking spot on. So what do we do here? We go to this part where it says comparables.

All right.

So what this does is it takes over here on the far right. If you guys can, if you have batch, you'll be able to see, but I'll zoom in. What it does is it sets predetermined filters. It shows property class. It will do single family if your property is a single family. It will do a house, it will do— it will check sold, active, and pending. It will do within the last 12 months, anything built within 10 years. So that's, that's something that I think we could change. I don't think we need to find something that's built within 10 years because in some areas it doesn't really matter, right, David? Like, they can be built within several years of each other and they're still kind of similar. So I'm going to change that to within 30 years because Doesn't really matter. Yeah.

With Florida, I would think the structure is more important. Agreed. Like a concrete block to concrete block.

Exactly. And then you can go over here and they got ignore bedrooms and baths. You can, you can put the certain amount of bedrooms and baths. You can do square footage, locate within 5 miles. You can shorten it to like 1 mile, 2 miles. Obviously the closer you're going to get, the better the comps will be. A lot of agents, they'll just like go within like 5, 10 miles just looking for the best comp. And unfortunately, that's what a lot of wholesalers do too. And that makes— that can kill your deal if you're comparing it with something that's like far, far, far away, right?

Yeah. And for anybody who's curious, I'm following along with Nathan on my phone app, which is actually very user-friendly. So everything you're doing on your desktop, I'm able to do, seamlessly here on, on the app, and it comes up nicely.

No, exactly, the app is money. And if you guys have a specific, uh, I think a program or tier with them, you can also use it for Driving for Dollars. But anyway, we're going to scroll down here and we're going to see that the comps that it's giving us, um, there's several, several comps in this area. So we can actually trim this down to a smaller area. You could, uh, change the, uh, let's see, the location. I'm actually going to go within 2 miles. Let's see what that looks like. So we're going to filter that. Okay, so we have, uh, so I'd actually even look at some of these properties to see what they look like when they sold. So this one sold for $379,000. That's right on— you can see this is right by the water. So property that's right by the water is going to sell for more than than one that's not. This one sold for $315,000. You can see if it's rehabbed or not. You can like dive in and do your due diligence on that. But we're just going to go, since I've already kind of done this, we know that this house, because it was built a little bit older than some of the other ones that have sold for $310,000, this one's right around like $290,000, $297,000, okay? So let's run the numbers now so you guys can see how I determine quickly if this is a deal for my buyer. So we go to my calculator. So if the house is worth $299,000, Batch says $297,000, we'll go $299,000, and Nashdy's asking $221,000. Is this a deal for a buyer? So you got to check out their hard money, their costs, because they're going to have to hold the property and flip it. So it might take them 4 months. If you look at the pictures, you see the house is not terrible, but it is outdated. So we're going to give it a medium rehab and it's about 1,647 square feet. And we can see right here that if a flipper buys it at $221,000 and sells it for $299,000 after 4 months of work and paying all the fees and the hard money costs, he'll make $13,000 on this deal. Uh, not a good, not a good return on your money, in my opinion. For you, you're gonna work 4 months and risk all that time and money and labor to make $13,000. I think there's better ways to make money. You could probably find yourself a better deal. So nasty, we love you, bro, but your deal is nasty. It's not good. It's not going to work. So I actually talked to a buyer. I said, hey buyer, this one kind of fits your criteria. Where would you be? He says, I'd be at $190,000. So does $190,000 make sense? Yeah, it makes complete sense because the guy's going to make 15% on his money, 15% of $299,000, the ARV, and $45,000, $46,000 profit somewhat. So when you talk to buyers, most of the time they're going to want to be, they're going to be wanting to make 15, 10 to 15 and up percent of the ARV. So if this house was worth half a million, then they would want to be making, you know, over $50,000, right? Over 10% of the ARV. So that was a quick demonstration, everybody, of how to run a comp. Now I've been talking, so I haven't been able to do 10 deals in 10 minutes, but as you can see, it's pretty, it's pretty easy. Let's, let's do another one. David, do you have anything to say while we're looking at—

um, I kind of had a little bit of a question, uh, when it comes to— and maybe it's just a brief sentence between you and the buyer, um, or you and, um, the wholesaler, but When it comes to repairs, are you kind of— you're doing some of the estimates yourself, and then when you bring it to the buyer, you're like, hey, I think these are the repairs, what do you think? And, uh, kind of want to ask about that.

Yeah, great question, David. So for me, man, I use, I use this, uh, this basic formula: $18 per square foot, $24 and everything. And basic is like carpet, paint. Medium is, uh, carpet, paint, kitchen and baths, okay? And then everything is like studs or pretty much roof. You, you throw in anything on top of kitchen carpet, uh, and bathrooms, and you have additional stuff like plumbing. Let's say you got a bunch of stuff, it's, it's an everything job. So my numbers, like a lot of people fluff these up and they increase them like $20 for the basic, they like $30 and $40. Um, I keep it at this and it's worked pretty good. And this is all I do. And to be honest, a lot of buyers do the same thing. Like they're not going in. I don't know how many walkthroughs you've been at, David, but a lot of buyers do not like go in and like do 100 line items. Yeah, they don't, right? They just kind of give it a big estimate. And you know what good buyers do? Not good for us because we want to make money, but they just, they just make a big, big estimate. They're like, well, that's $120,000. You're like, bro, you could do this for like $80,000 or $60,000. They're like, nah. But you know what they're doing is they're just making sure they protect themselves.

And I get it. I have that combo every day.

I get it. And a lot of the time is they'll try to protect themselves. But it's also, you never know what you're going to run into when you're coming into that rehab.

You'll get outbid. Yeah, sometimes they'll get outbid. You know, it's pretty common, especially if, you know, in my market particularly too, they're willing to let the ARV potentially be higher.

'Cause, but yeah. And what I've seen, I talked to a lot of guys is that have lost money on flips is they're like, bro, I, I budgeted. I wish I would have budgeted more because we started tearing stuff down. Then we found this, we found foundation. We found— so, you know, as wholesalers, we see a bit, we see a very— this is very prevalent. This happens a lot. Like what you're seeing with Nashdy, Nashdy, you know, all respect to Nashdy. But, you know, he's trying to find a specific buyer that will buy this. But we just ran the numbers. It just doesn't make sense at $221,000. That's why it's on the MLS at $247,000. There are a lot of people who put a property on the MLS just hoping that like a family buyer will move into it and fix it up. But like when it comes to working with flippers and what we do, we need it because, you know, we— if we bought it at $221,000, which is discounted from what's on the MLS, we're going to pretty much lose money. You know, with all everything we have to do. So a lot of people think we're unreasonable, we're trying to like screw people over. It's like, nah man, it's expensive to flip homes, you know, there's a lot of costs that are involved. So all right, let's look at another one. Let's see how accurate we can get, how fast and accurate it is. So 9-2, you can read that for me, right?

Oh, my bad, it just went—

went out. All right, I got it right here. 912 Holiday Lane, Leesburg, Florida. Okay, so all I did is I typed it in, I go to search. Let's see what the estimated value is. Now, a lot of people, they don't want to just trust just one source. They'll go to Batch Leads, they'll go to any other software they have, they'll go to Redfin, Zillow, they'll put all 4 and they'll do an average estimate. And they'll say, hey, that's what all these systems are saying this house is worth. Let's just take the average, right, of what these house— what it's saying. So right here, I'm looking at this property. Batch is saying that this thing is worth $287,000. Okay, so it's a 4-bedroom 1 bath and it's saying $487, sorry, $287,000. Now let me see if— let's just take kind of like what I just told you. Let's see if Zillow agrees. Okay, so I don't see a Zillow estimate on here. You know what, they might— I think when you list a property, they take away the Zilla.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's true. And the format changes too.

No, for sure. But look, so Batch says $287 on the value. They have it listed $272. Uh, so they're— they were trying to list it pretty much what Batch thinks it's worth. And then according to the information we have— oh, I'm not even sharing my screen, my bad guys. I typed it in here. Um, Here it is, so they're trying to list it. It's on the market for $272,000. They are— let's see, but Nashdy's got it for $162,000. So yeah, he's a lot lower than where the value is. So this might be a good one, right? This might be a good one to send to one of my buyers. And I can probably say that that's probably pretty accurate. It's like Batch again, crushing it, $287,000 right here. I would say that's fairly accurate if you guys can see that, $287,000 on the estimate. And then again, you can go to the comparables and you can just double-check. But if they have it listed at $272,000, which I believe they think was probably— they were crossing their fingers hoping someone would buy it, but it's been on the market for 70 days and nobody wanted it. So let's go back to the calculator. Let's see if it's a deal. First, let's take a look at some of the pictures. So let's see, how much of a rehab does this need to get to $287,000 which is the ARV? Oh my dear, that's like indoor pool. Indoor pool? But an indoor ghetto pool.

Luxury ghetto. Bro, look.

Yo. How would you like that man, to have a nice indoor pool right in the middle of your living room, dog? I mean—

In theory. That's wild. Yo, with the boat.

With the boat, if the boat's in it, it's worth $287,000, 100%.

Yeah, that seems to, that seems to stack up too, um, with the other comps because I see like a 4/1 but it's like mad nice, um, that sold for $360,000. But that's also a little bit bigger, it has another bathroom, um, so when you take those facts into consideration, like just being under $300,000 seems to make sense, bro.

Can you I would even say that the pool inside the house makes it less valuable. Like, who wants a pool inside like their living room?

Yeah, unless that's like the room right next to the outside. But still, like, it doesn't look like— like, those look like regular wall, like sheetrock. I don't think it should be like that.

Yeah, no, I agree with you. And I think the issue is like pools are very expensive, bro. Like, I'm sure to even restore this, to get it going, Ooh, it's probably very expensive. So that's probably a big reason why this thing has not sold.

Oh yeah, that's tough, man.

I don't even know how to throw in the rehab on a pool like that, dude.

Indoor pool?

No, I haven't dealt with that one yet. So Nash G's got it for $161,000.

That rehab might go up another $15K right there.

Yeah, because it's 2,600 square feet. So, and I, to be real, bro, this— yeah, it's gonna need everything. So even at nasty's price, $161,000, you're at 5%. Where this needs to be for someone to really probably want to buy it, bro, like $120,000, $120,000. If you got it $120,000, you probably could wholesale it to a buyer for like $127,000. And you'd have to find like the right buyer that's like, all right, I'll take on something weird like this, take that indoor pool. Yeah, so again, Batch strikes again, and they show us that quickly, instead of having to run your numbers and do all this, you can just quickly see. Now, when you're making offers to, um, let's see, if you're making offers to off-market sellers that, you know, you definitely want to do maybe a little bit more due diligence. If you run into someone who's like, yes, I want to sell, you don't want to just go like with one number, one estimate, and then just go make them an offer because that might be wrong. You never know. But it's to a wholesaler. I would say, hey, like, just make them the offer that makes sense. And if you have a buyer, obviously you don't want to be just saying, hey, I'll buy your house. And then let me tell you something that actually happened the other day, bro. This fired me up. So I got a house in probate. One of my— a buddy of mine was like, hey, dude, can you help me wholesale this? Can you wholesale this to your buyers list? Will you sell this for me? I was like, yeah, I'll find a buyer. So I'm working with Nellie, who I partner with, and she was talking to some, some buyer, right? And he's— she's talking to him. He's saying, yeah, we're going to buy it. Like, we, we have the ARV at like $510,000 and we're ready to go. So then she's ready to send them over the paperwork. And before he makes his final offer, he's like, hey, is this contract you're signing to me? Is it assignable? And she's like, hey, she calls me. She's like, hey, why is it— why does he need the assignment that we're signing him to be assignable so he can assign it. And I was like, well, sounds like a wholesaler. So I get on the phone with him and I'm like, hey man, so I'm just curious, like, we're going to sign this to you. You're going to put EMD down. Like, why do you need it to be assignable? He's like, well, you know, we buy houses, but sometimes we don't. If it doesn't make sense, like, we'll, we'll find— we'll assign it to someone else.

I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa. Never heard that script before.

I'm like, no, I get that. I get that you can assign other stuff, but if you're going to buy this, you're— there's no reason to sign it. He's like, well, we always put this in our paperwork. I'm like, dude, just— I've been doing this forever. Like, you, you don't have to play with me. Like, you're gonna buy it or not? And he's like, no, we're gonna sign it. And I was like, well, you just wasted all your time because we wholesale and we're looking for the end buyer. Like, we have the list that you, that you have. You can run it by your buyers, but they're not gonna go under contract for 7 days and just wait for you.

Yeah, you can't perform.

Yeah.

No, yeah, go ahead, David, go ahead. And then when you can't perform, I look bad, or everybody looks bad. Nelly looks bad, the team looks bad. 7 days, it's not like a direct-to-seller, it's a wholesale. That means that's a relationship, you know, so that's, that's dozens of leads potentially.

Yeah, man. So it was just really interesting to me that like that's how a lot of wholesalers come off, man. They're like, yeah, we're gonna buy it, or We're going to sign it. And it's like, dude, just be real. And that's what I preach to everyone here is like, if you're going to work with a wholesaler or an investor, just be like, hey, do you mind if I run this by some of my buyers? And if you're going to work with an off-market seller, make sure you can actually do the deal or don't just tie them up and waste their time. Like, no offense to anyone that does this, but if you get someone under contract and you have no idea if it's a deal, but you just want to try it, you're wasting their time.

You just made us all look bad as wholesalers, just so you know.

Yeah, you made us look bad. And not only did you make us look bad, you just wasted a lot of your time. You wasted a lot of your time, energy, effort. And it's very demoralizing to be like, yeah, I'm going to get paid. And then it's like all these buyers come back and they're like, bro, I'm $100K less than what you have this thing for or whatever. So just make sure, guys, be open and honest, especially always in everything you do. 'But don't try and play games, bro. Like, yeah, I'm gonna buy it, and if not, I might—' It's like, just be real, okay? It's either you're gonna do it or not, because I'm about to make you put down non-refundable earnest money. Yeah, you can't, then I know you're not buying it.

And not to, you know, 100% not understand that script or that way of saying, you know, 'Hey, like, I buy, but like, I do that,' but that's for like That's not— that's for an intro call and not what we're talking about, the literal deal we're talking about right now. Like, okay, I understand, but that's— you still have to decide in your process what you're gonna do with this property. So have you decided what you're gonna do with this property yet, or you still don't know if you're gonna buy it or assign it? If you don't know that you're gonna buy it, then we can't work on this one this way together, right?

Way better conversation if he would have started out and said, hey, 'We got a lot of buyers. This one doesn't work for me, but I can check with my people to see if it'll work for them.' Great, man, go ahead and check. Check the whole world. You can ask everybody, but I'm not going to just like sit here and wait for you. Like, go ahead and check. Yeah. So anyway, I just thought I'd tell you that, man, because it's funny that just happened yesterday and it was like, come on, man, you can't play. You can't play me. So, David, what we've seen today is My process for quickly checking a property, we go look at Batch, we run the numbers to see where it makes sense. Now, there's a couple of things that I could do now that I've run the numbers on 2 properties. I could just go to Nashdy and say, hey, Nashdy, I got a buyer or I got buyers that would be around $130,000 on this one. Would that work? Without even having to check with my buyers, because I know these are my buyers' numbers. My buyers are going to be around here, right? So that's what I could do, just say, hey, you know, um, I got someone around 1:30. So let's, let's try it. Let me, let me, let me show you guys how to do it. Let's do it. All right, hold on. And David, while, uh, while I'm doing this, do you have any questions, anything I should clarify on, or anything you want to add?

Um, I think, uh, I think part of this process and a big thing to bring up is You're analyzing the deal, right? So it requires a couple skills that we're kind of all putting together here in this one thing where, uh, we're putting together the skill of comping, we're putting together the skill of underwriting, we're putting together the skill of, you know, social awareness of when to reach out to people at what time. So if I was to say anything, that's probably just one thing to bring up, especially for anybody who's kind of just jumping into it. It's like, oh wait, like I don't even know this and that. It's like, I get it. But if you— and even with calls like this, you can take your time, break it down, pause it. That's why it's so great, you know. And you might need to do that step by step. Okay, like, so it took me hours to learn, like, when I first started comping, like hours. Like, I had 6 properties, like, all day. Like, sometimes it would take me 2 hours, just to be honest, because like I didn't want to bring it to my team and be wrong. And sometimes, you know, one comp might change your mind because it's a, it's a flowing market. It's not just like science where it's like, hey, like this person paid this. Okay. But it's all, it's really the market, what the market will pay. Somebody is going to pay for this house and there's no guarantees. So an investor's always looking at something, not as a guarantee, like they have to always be prepared. So just to say, like, there's a few skills we're putting together here and I know it could be overwhelming, but by, I mean, things with like batch. You're really just stepping into another world of what you could do, but with that power comes responsibility. So let's be responsible with that Spider-Man stuff, you know?

Yes, with that power comes responsibility. That's, that's the truth. Well, let's take a look at this property. So this is nasty on my CRM. I'm going to, uh, text him and say, hey man, um, I got a buyer that— my buyers would be interested in this property around, uh, $130,000. Well, actually, let's make sure that's right. So $130,000 is probably where it would make sense on that one that we looked at, David. It's about a $91K rehab. With a pool. With a pool. I feel pretty confident about that.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

He's got it under contract. Well, I don't know what he's got it under contract for. That's why we're making the offer. Sure. But he's asking for $161,000. You know, you guys got to shake all all, uh, like apprehension of making low offers to people, even other wholesalers that have deals. You know why? Because buyers— David, didn't you have a deal the other day that the seller wanted $450,000 or $480,000 and your buyer hit you at $350,000?

Yeah, it was actually— he wanted $345,000.

Okay, he ain't afraid to tell you the truth, bro.

He tells me on like every deal I bring to him, he just like goes— it's— and especially here in New York, you know, it's— you're looking at 60% to 50% on every offer, or else it honestly is not going to be a deal. So you got to get, you got to get kind of used to it. And if it makes you feel good, you don't really got to do it with agents and wholesalers, but direct to seller, you can like prep them up. Hey, I'm going to give you this offer, please, you know, I don't want to offend you. But with wholesalers and agents, I mean, the right relationships, you could just give them the number, like that's it, you know.

Just hit them hard, bro. Yeah, hit them. They're ready for it. My buyers, I got— I'll say my buyers would be interested in this deal at $130K. I know you got it for higher, but that's— that was me. That's where it makes sense. Can we make this happen?

And just so everyone knows too, like, this is because Nathan's been able to talk with this person and has had the conversation of, hey, like, I'll give you a price, but that's like what my buyer— and somebody like this is happy to go, hey man, like, just give me the number and like we'll make it work, because he's smart enough to be like I'd rather get a number in to get an idea, especially if he's working 20, 40 deals. Just getting an offer on one of those is a win for the day.

It is. Yeah. Because like I told you guys on this one right here, uh, I had a buyer that offered $190,000, right? So he's got it at $221,000. So he's, he's asking $221,000. So that means he's definitely got it for less than $221,000 unless he's trying to make nothing, right? So he's obviously trying to make some. So He might not— he definitely doesn't have it as low as $190,000 because he said he can't make it happen. But it's at least some more ammo for him to go back and talk to the agent and just say, hey, look, you know, I ran the numbers. I need to be around like $185,000 or whatever so we can get the buyer involved. So, you know, what I think happens a lot with wholesaling, David, is I think people think there's not a lot of deals out there. There are a lot of deals, but the thing is, we're just not getting them low enough.

Yeah, I think it's like a conscious thing where there's just so many deals that it may just seem like that there's nothing, but you really have to carve and sift through because think about the point of entry to do something like wholesaling. You could just start calling and putting things under contract. You got a lot of ambitious people trying to make something happen, and then you have people who have experience locking things up and selling them when they didn't even know how it sold for that. So they just do that anyway because they're just playing high numbers. That's right.

I check out— this is, this is why it's important to like have conversations and make offers. As I, uh, there's this property that I did, um, That's like no pool.

Oh, is that the other one? My bad.

Yeah, this is the other one. Yeah, yeah. The other one says, see, no outside pool. Yes on the pool. So this is what happened to me. And that's what I want to stress to everybody on here, the importance of making offers. I called on a property in Salt Lake City, Utah, a while ago and made— a house just got listed. It was listed like at ARV. At like $450,000 and it really needed to be at like $325,000, $320,000. So I called the guy and I said, hey, I'd like to make an offer at $320,000. He's like, yeah, right. That's so low. They would never accept that. So I was like, okay, that's all good. So then like 2, like a month later, I didn't follow up. I was like, whatever, that guy's not going to accept my offer. So a month later, someone on like a Facebook group wrote, hey, I have a property in Utah. I need help. Finding a buyer. I reached out to the person, I said, hey, I got buyers, um, how can I help? It was the same property, they had it under contract for like $390,000 or $380,000. Okay, so that guy at $450,000, when I offered $320,000, he didn't accept it, but he came down, um, to like $390,000. Okay, or $380,000. So I, I looked at the deal and I said, hey, I've actually ran comps on this, this thing needs to be like $320,000. I already made an offer, this it's just not a deal that high. And they're like, all right, let me see if I can renegotiate. So they renegotiated with the guy and the guy finally accepted like $315,000. I think we got him down to like $315,000 or something. And then I found a buyer for like $340,000, $335,000. So we made like $25,000. So the thing is, guys, is like even if someone like I just made this, I told Nasty I need to be at $130,000 and then this other one, I'd be at $190,000. Like they might not say yes at the beginning. But if you follow up, you know, after they get a bunch of low offers where they need to be, a seller, a wholesaler, an agent, they're eventually going to be like, this is what I'm getting. And one more, one more example. I have an aunt who's awesome, but she listed her house at $850,000 because she's like, that's, that's what I think it's worth. After a couple of months of no one buying it, now she's asking for less. And but that's just what happens. People get ambitious. Got to do it. Yeah. But what helps those people? You get the right price. Well, you got to make the offer, right? And you got to follow up. And it's not just a text offer. I can text, I can text Nash because we're homies. But if we didn't— if I didn't know him and I just text him a low offer, he's going to be like, forget this guy. And he's not going to remember me. But you got to build that relationship. You got to make that call. You got to make that offer. And that's how flippers survive and get deals because they're making low offers and they're being consistent and they're getting it done. 30%. Yes, sir. All right, well, let's see if there's any comments coming in from the chat. Let's see. No, it's been, it's been kind of quiet. I guess we've been answering all the questions. Um, let's see, David, anything else before we wrap up, or anything you'd like me to check right now? Because I know we were going to kind of walk through some of your deals. This is— I did this specifically to kind of to work with you as well, is just say, hey, This is how fast I would do it. I wouldn't even waste time, you know, reaching out to buyers necessarily on a property unless like it's so hot and it's already a great deal. But if it's like you're not sure, I would just run your numbers and then kind of tell the wholesaler that has the deal like where you'd need to be. And if it's— if they're close, they're like, oh yeah, like we're close, then yes, it's worth reaching out.

You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if we can maybe do it off for another call. The only thing I had pretty much was two direct-to-seller— a direct-to-seller who is planning to sell two properties within the next 4 months.

So, um, that's a little different, but yeah, yeah, we can do that another call. Plus, we don't want to share that info and have someone, you know, I don't think anyone would do that. But so let's wrap up the call so everybody kind of knows what we're— what we've been talking about today. If you want to comp deals, whether it's from on the MLS, whether it's from a wholesaler or someone that's on market that you texted— sorry, off market that you've texted— you can do a quick way where you can just go and run it in Zillow, run it in batch, you know, compare them, see if it's pretty close, and then make an offer by running it into a calculator. You don't have to have a calculator like mine, but you do need to run something where it makes sense. After you break everything down. Because if you just take the 70% minus ARV— uh, sorry, 70% ARV minus your wholesale fee minus your rehab— that's going to be way, way, way, way low. Always. Um, it's— and I'll show you guys like why that is.

So $287,000 is the ARV, and if you find that deal, you're better off buying it for yourself. Yeah. Let's see.

By the way, this is, uh, that's not, uh I sent this picture to someone. Not judging you. Because it's actually Nathan Valley. I thought it was Nathan Valley's sister, if anyone knows Nathan. Oh yeah. It says something Valley, so I was like, hey, I was like, is that your sister, bro? Anyway, let's see. So $287,000 times, what is that? 70% minus— on this one, we were saying it was like a $91K rehab, right? We were saying it was like a lot. And you want to make $10K, right? So you're at $99,000 versus when we're like $31,000 higher. And that's because we actually ran the numbers the right way. And we, you know, but again, if you do a 70%, you're going to be so low that I don't think you'll, you'll really ever get a deal because I'm going to be— or so there's going to be someone that's going to be able to pay, run the numbers the right way and pay more, right?

Yeah, I experienced that. I experienced, you know, months, months of that, of trying to make offers just based on that.

And Uh, and if you do happen to get one in there, then you got a great deal and you're probably going to make a lot of money. But, you know, if that's— if you just live and die by that rule, you're going to let a lot of stuff go that was deals. Because again, it's about knowing who your buyer is, knowing what they want, because sometimes they'll pay when there's a slim margin. And, um, you know, that's what they were doing a lot during the pandemic is the inventory was so low that they were buying deals that didn't make sense. And we're kind of getting to a period where the inventory is pretty low in a lot of areas. So we might be coming into that where you can find buyers that will pay like more than others, but you just got to look for them. You got to find them. And I know, David, you got a couple that, you know, that are pretty good landlord buyers, right?

Yeah. Yeah, I got a couple landlord buyers and it depends on the area and it could be challenging to cash flow around here. But yeah, at times they'll— they're able to, you know, pay more, um, especially if, you know, could get creative. But with cash deals, it can be tricky, tricky to work, especially with the rates and how pricey it out here. But, um, yeah, we come across— we have like 2 landlord buyers, um, mainly that like to bring deals to, and they'll buy them even if they've been on the MLS. That's good, because some people around here like if it touched the MLS, like, they might not even return your call or, or answer any calls after that, like, just because you brought them that one time.

Dude, I don't, I don't know. I don't get that. Like, if it's a good deal, then it doesn't matter if it's MLS, Craigslist, whatever, you know? It's weird.

Yeah, so there's guys who get that and they're totally cool with it, but I guess similar to where certain guys feel certain ways about wholesaling, they're just like, bro, don't bring it to me because I already know. It's like Well, what he knows is that every time he had that experience, it was not good. He doesn't know that with me it's a different experience, but sometimes you can't prove that to people. I mean, you could send them— you could follow up and prove it, and I've done that, right? Which is why I still share deals with my landlord buyers that I talked to you the other day, just why they know I'm still actively looking for it.

Yeah. Now I think the thing that puts a sour taste in most people's mouth with the MLS is like, I've seen guys that will get a property on the MLS for like, it's listed for $287,000 and they'll get it for like $285,000. And then they'll be like, hey man, I got a deal for you. And people are like, bro, why would I go with you when I can just wait for you to lose that contract and I'll just call the agent myself? Like, they just don't have a deal. But if you call someone and you're like, bro, I got this deal, it's listed on the MLS for $280,000, I got it for $100,000, or I got it for $200,000, and you're providing value. There you go. Wow. Yeah, man, thanks for letting me know. That's a great deal. That's when it works. But now sometimes Jerry Norton was telling me, he's like, you know, sometimes I'll lock up a property immediately when it's listed because it's just listed at the right price where it is a deal. And you're going to run into some buyers that are going to be like, bro, this is listed. But you're like, dude, it was listed at the right price and I locked it up because it's a deal. So it's a double-edged sword, right? You got like, if you lock it up quick and it is a deal at the— Jerry Norton. Yeah, but, uh, you know, I haven't had very much success with locking it up at price and then being able to wholesale it. So anyway, all right, well, we got one question that did come in through for— through InvestQuest_17. Do you let buyers walk the property before locking it up all the time so your offer could be spot on? InvestQuest, great question. Um, It depends if I have a specific buyer who I think would be a good fit and I'm like, hey man, you want to just come with me? I was going to go take some pictures and see the house condition. You might as well come with me because I think it would be a good house for you. That's when I would do it. And if it's like I'm walking it to just see— now where I wouldn't do that is if it's like I'm talking to the seller. Let's just say it's off market. I'm talking to a seller and they're like, hey, I want $250,000. And I'm like, I can do $224,000, and they're like, okay, and $224,000 is a deal, then, then for me, I don't need my buyer to walk it because I already have a deal. But if it's something that's like I'm unsure of, or it's really tight and the seller wants $250,000 and they won't go less than $250,000, and it's like barely a deal at $250,000, I'll have my buyer go then because I don't want to say, yes, I can do $250,000, lock it up, waste their time, waste my time. Might as well just, you you know, send— bring them with me. Does that make sense, David? Did I explain that? Yeah, yeah.

And I would agree, um, that's as close you can get is always better, especially if you don't know much about it. Um, but if your deal is low enough and it makes sense, uh, personally with me, uh, at least my local market here in New York, we walk pretty much every property, whether it's my buyer or me literally going with my buyer. I have a good buyer who's been very cool and let, um, let me walk through properties with him. Um, but because in New York, once you're locked into contract, there's an ironclad— like, it's not like other states where you can get out. Like, with New York, it's an attorney state. Once you're in contract, that's like the good and bad. The good part is that seller's probably not gonna have that contract, but the bad part is you're not gonna have that contract. Well, that's wild.

Yeah, that's wild. You locked in, bro. You, you're a new wholesaler and you lock in, you know what you're doing. Yeah.

And it's usually $10,000 to $15,000 EMD. So around here. Yeah.

So you can't really just lock up somebody without, you know, a good earnest money. Well, that's InvestQuest. If you're watching this still, that's, that's the answer to the question. And yeah. So David, tell everyone where they can find you if they want to do some deals in Tampa and Long Island. How can they reach out to you?

Yeah, my phone number here, 631-495-7586. That's my personal number right there, so you can feel free to message me there. I'm also on Facebook. I'm pretty accessible on there, and Instagram, you search my name, um, I'm pretty accessible through there. Feel free to reach out. Long Island deals, Tampa, Orlando as well, since we got some connections there. But yeah, 100% happy to help and take a look at things.

For sure, for sure. And guys, I just put my, uh, the link to, uh, Batch Leads. If you haven't tried it yet, definitely give it a shot. It's a you get a 50% off discount with my promo code Investor Thrive. And I think they're still running the free trial as well. So you might as well try it, guys. We just ran a couple properties and saw it was spot on on the ARV in Florida. Now it's not always going to be like that depending on the state, but give it a shot and run the averages and see, and you'll see for yourself. All right, guys, peace out. Have a good one. Okay, bro.