Want to be a Real Estate Flipper? Start Out as Bird Dog

Real estate flippers have gotten some really bad press of the past few years. There is legal flipping, and flipping is basically turning a property over for a profit. The flipping that has gotten the bad press is the quick property turn over that involves appraisers intentionally falsifying home values to banks that loaned more money on houses than the property was actually worth. Real estate investors were paying off appraisers, real estate agents, attorneys and mortgage brokers to fraudulently turn over full value properties quickly, most of the time in 30 days or less without doing any repairs.

It’s possible for flippers to legally gain profits by buying properties below market value or repairing a property up to it real market value. As long as an investor properly flips a property then there is nothing wrong with an investor turning over a property in a short time.

Opportunities exist for bird dogs that want to learn how to get started in the real estate industry by working with an investor that needs multiple deals. Flippers need bird dogs to bring them deals so they can feed their investor list. If the flipper doesn’t constantly provide their list of buyers with deals, their investors will move to another source to find them deals.

Quick turn investors is a high pace niche in real estate and bird dogs can learn quite a bit in a short time because their mentor will demand a high level of leads. Bird dogs that are smart will track their efforts through a journal because it will be very easy to forget some of the key steps involved because of all the leads that are going through the process.

Once a bird dog gets familiar with the deals other investors are looking for the bird dog will be on their way to begin investing. There is no faster way for a bird dog to learn the ropes as an apprentice or intern than working with a quick turn real estate flipper.

New investors that want to become real estate flippers should be a bird dog for a quick turn investor to learn the ins and outs of the business. There are many parts to flipping houses so it’s best to work with someone that is doing what you want to do.

Dante Mazyck is the acquisitions manager for a web based company that buys houses and they want to train bird dogs to find deals for a joint venture profit split. Bird dogs that want to learn to flip houses for free can go to Real Estate Flippers.