There are a lot of listings on MLS or other websites that say “MOTIVATED SELLER” in the listing. Most of them are meaningless to me. The seller may want to sell their house but they are not the kind of motivated seller that actually wants to give you a discount on the house for making the deal happen in the timeframe or with the terms they need.
Finding Motivated Sellers can lead to special sales on properties
Of course, one of the best ways to get a good deal as a real estate investor is to find a property that you can buy for under market. And, most of the time, when you find a property that you can buy for a price that is lower than it’s market value, you’ve found a motivated seller.
Once in awhile, we get a really good email that is from someone who isn’t happy with what we said. I say once in awhile because we don’t get very many emails from people that aren’t happy with us (thank goodness!), and when we do it’s usually something very random and useless to us like “This is annoying content – I’m unsubscribing”. Okay then!
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