Nathan Payne made $18,000 matching a seller and buyer without a purchase contract. He argues traditional wholesaling is broken because investors guess property value before knowing what buyers will pay. His solution: start with buyers, gather their actual prices, then secure the contract.
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No contract signed. Just was straight up with her. And I ended up finding a buyer for the deal without having under contract. And I made an $18,000 fee on it. When I called her, one of the first words that came out of her mouth were, "I will never sign another contract with you people again." I remember that still to this day. And that moment hit me like a truck because she wasn't wrong. She was burned, not by bad people, but by a bad model. So after Margaret told me, She'd never sign with wholesalers again because of the way they did it. I realized something. Traditional wholesaling fails because it forces you to guess first and find out what buyers will pay later. Pre-flipping flips the order. It's backed by buyer data first and then contract second. So stop guessing what buyers want. Just ask them because buyers decide what it's really worth.