PART 4
The double closing and the wholesaler.
Two names on the same parcel usually means one entity bought and sold it the same day. I read the rows, label the wholesaler and the flipper, then keep working the same neighborhood until I know who operates in it. By the end of this part I have names, an agent to call and a habit I can repeat every month.
The double closing in the history.
Look for a mortgage on the deal, then read the listed price.
Oftentimes in Texas you're not going to know what they bought it for. But if it's not just cash, and they used private money that gets filed against the deal, it's gonna be here. That gives me an idea of what they're buying the properties for.
Now this one is showing listed right now at $3.49 by this Kevin person.
Read the listing agent name on the property details panel.
The panel shows the MLS status as listed, with the agent's name beside it and the History tab still open. Sometimes Kevin is the owner of HHI, so keep that in the back of the mind too.
So now we have two possible flippers, and we have a possible wholesaler, and then these kind of who knows what those are. I'm still inside the same neighborhood, because I'm trying to understand this neighborhood really well.
Read the loan amount in Sunrise Brook LLC's mortgage history.
The transaction rows name the entity and the mortgage table underneath carries the loan they put against it. The MLS history sits below that with the price they are asking.
Sunrise Brook LLC, we can see that they got a loan against it for 265,000, and they have it listed at $4.89.
Open the HAR listing and read the price and agent.
The listing page carries the address, the price and the agent information. It looks like this would be new construction more than anything. They buy the land.
So I go looking for the age of the property, and the year built comes back 2024. That changes how I read what they paid for it.
Read the investor transactions in the filtered results panel.
The panel now shows only what sits inside that neighborhood, and those are the investor transactions in it. Next I want to see how many actual properties exist and have sold since August.
Scan the price tags across the filtered map.
There's like a sliver of these properties that are part of that other neighborhood, but there's quite a few that are separating across. Interesting.
So anyway, let's go back and filter by the flip again. I just want to click on a couple of those addresses and take a look at them.
Open the address, then click the History tab.
The details panel comes up with the address, the sold status and the owner. History is where the names are.
Read the row where Harker Homes sells to the other LLC.
Harker Homes is the one who wholesaled it, so Harker Homes, they are a wholesaler. Now they could buy deals too, but they definitely double closed this one.
And the LLC that bought from them is a flipper. Because they already sold it, I would open that up and see who listed it.
Stay at the neighborhood level while you collect the names.
Really what I'm doing here is staying at the neighborhood level and finding the people operating within that specific bubble. In smaller markets it doesn't matter as much, your neighborhood level is going to be too narrow.
In bigger markets I can sit here and go through a few neighborhoods, then target that whole zip code for marketing.
Repeat this on the recently sold flips every month.
Work it that way and I have a solid set of buyers without having to do that much. I just build my list and build my connections.
And I could just do this on a monthly basis, just come in and grab the new recently sold properties over that last month that were flippers, right?
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