Christian OsgoodCEO, Multifamily Strategy · CEO at Multifamily Strategy

If a Seller’s unwilling to show you this… RUN!

11 May 2023 · 0 min

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In this brief real‑estate advisory video, the speaker stresses the importance of verifying a seller’s claimed income before purchasing a property. He outlines concrete due‑diligence methods—reviewing bank statements and obtaining an imaging report that lists every deposited check. The core warning is that if the seller refuses to provide these financial documents, the buyer should immediately walk away from the deal.

When you're buying a piece of real estate, before you buy it, you need to actually verify what you're looking at. It's one thing to trust somebody, but you should trust and verify. When we're going to buy something, we need to verify the income. We do that through a couple of means. Bank statements. You can get a bank statement and an imaging report that'll show every check that's ever been deposited to the bank. If a seller is unwilling to show you this, run.