How (and Why) I Offer on Properties BEFORE I Ever Step Foot in the House

by Brandon

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How (and Why) I Offer on Properties BEFORE I Ever Step Foot in the House

The other day I flabbergasted a friend of mine.

(I’ve always wanted to use that word in a blog post. Score!)

I explained to him my simple funnel for getting real estate deals:

As I walked him through this, my friend was befuddled! (Another word I’ve always wanted to use in a blog post!)

“Wait a minute,” he said to me, “you are telling me you make an offer BEFORE ever stepping foot in the house?”

“Of course!” I responded. “At least, if it’s a foreclosure. If it’s a motivated seller, I still make a verbal offer.”

“That’s crazy!” He laughed. “How would you know what to offer? And how do you know the condition?”

As I explained it to him, I thought it would probably interest others as well, hence this blog post!

So before I explain how I do it, let me tell you why I do it this way.

Why I Make Offers Before Looking at the Property

I realize that to newer investors, making offers sight-unseen probably seems crazy.

When I think back to my early days investing in real estate, I used to do exactly what my friend does:

  • Walk through the property
  • Walk through it again
  • Measure everything
  • Make a detailed spreadsheet
  • Panic
  • Walk through it again
  • Get scared and overthink everything
  • Then make an offer
  • And the offer gets rejected 80-90 percent of the time still.

Today, I make my offers before I step foot into the property.

Why?

Related: 8 Tips to Put Your Real Estate Offer in the Best Light — And Get it Accepted

Four reasons:

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About Brandon

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Brandon Turner (G+) is the BiggerPockets.com Senior Editor and Community Director and owner of RealEstateInYourTwenties.com. He is also an Active Real Estate Investor (Flips, Apartments, and Buy-and-Hold), Entrepreneur, World Traveler, Third-Person Speaker, and Husband. Come hang out with him on Twitter!

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