It’s ironic you mentioned your “art of persuasion post”, as when I was reading the post, I thought “I can see John using this technique”. It would take persuasion, and a very confident person to pull this off.

If a seller is not in need of selling a property quickly, this could be a great win-win for both parties (provided you sold the house in the predetermined time frame).

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It’s really cool . . . when you can get the seller to accept it.

While it’s an uncommon and completely different approach to real estate investing, this is a perfect example of how entrepreneurs need to constantly learn new techniques (usually marketing) and try to think laterally.

As per your questions (answered in reverse):

After all, wouldn’t they have to be making the mortgage payment, plus take the house off of the market?

Yes. I’ll explain why below.

Do you think most sellers would accept these terms?

The short answer: no.

However, there’s a method that can be used in nearly any situation - you just have to know when and which method to use to create yourself a profit.

This is a more sophisticated method of real estate investing and one in which sellers would not expect to be approached with. This is not a method I would approach a seller with who needs to sell his home to buy his next primary residence.

So that’s the first criteria.

This method is more for the vacant property that’s just sitting there going to waste. Maybe the seller is out of state, in jail, got divorced and doesn’t care anymore, etc.

It really does require you to know how to be persuasive in some way. You did read my the art of persuasion posts, didn’t you

See how everything I talk about on here ties in with one another?

Basically you have to show the seller how you know what you’re doing - you’re the expert. You know how to fix up and sell a house like a pro. You’re going to come in, fix up the house, and sell it in 6 months (or however long). Show the seller how you have a lot to lose: time, money, your profit, etc. and as an investor, you will never let that happen.

It’s guaranteed if the seller is using a Realtor the Realtor would say no. So you have to show the seller how you can do a better job and provide the seller with benefits without explicitly saying, “I’ll do better than your Realtor - and if not, you can keep the repairs.”

How cool is that?

Do you think most sellers would accept these terms? After all, wouldn’t they have to be making the mortgage payment, plus take the house off of the market?

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