Bringing a deal to a buyer network: what to have ready

If you want a fast answer on whether a property fits a buyer list, the quality of what you send determines how quickly you get one. Most deals we cannot act on fail for the same handful of reasons.

The minimum useful package

Address. Contract price and your fee. Photographs of the actual condition, including the parts that are bad. Beds, baths, square footage and unit count. Whether it is vacant or occupied. Your closing timeline.

That is enough to give you a yes or no. Everything else is helpful rather than necessary.

What makes it faster

Recent comparable sales with your reasoning. A rehab estimate, even a rough one, with how you arrived at it. Confirmation the contract is assignable. Access arrangements for a walkthrough.

If the property is occupied, the rent roll and whether there are written leases changes the buyer pool entirely, so include it up front.

What makes a deal hard to move

A price with no basis. If the number does not leave a spread after realistic rehab, no buyer list will fix that — the arithmetic is the arithmetic.

A property already blasted to a wide list. By the time it reaches us the buyers have seen it, often at a different price, and the credibility cost is real.

Photographs that omit the problems. Buyers find out at the walkthrough, and the next deal you send gets less attention.

Be straight about the condition

The deals that place easily are the ones described accurately. Understating scope does not get a property sold; it gets it retraded or cancelled, and it costs you the relationship.

Buyers on a vetted list are experienced. They will price a bad roof correctly if you tell them about it, and they will disengage entirely if they find it themselves.