Have you ever dreamed of making it big in real estate but felt held back by a lack of capital?
Maybe you've heard about flipping houses, but you are worried about the risks of taking on massive loans or dealing with contractors.
What if I told you there's a way to profit from real estate deals without ever owning a single property?
I've spent years in the real estate game, and I'm going to share something that might surprise you.
How To Make Money Flipping Real Estate Contracts?
While everyone's fighting over fix-and-flip deals, there's a better opportunity hiding in plain sight.
But before I reveal that, let me break down what most people think is the easiest way to get started in real estate: contract flipping, also known as wholesaling.
Here's how it typically works.
You find a property owner willing to sell their house below market value, get it under contract, and then sell that contract to another investor for a profit.
Sounds simple enough, right?
Let's look at the numbers.
Take an average house worth $400,000.
Professional flippers typically need to buy at around 70% of market value – that's about $280,000, including repair costs.
To make it worth their while, you'd need to get the property under contract for even less, say $250,000.
If your flipper is willing to pay $300,000, you've just created a $50,000 profit opportunity.
But here's what nobody tells you: finding someone willing to sell their $400,000 house for $250,000 is like finding a needle in a haystack.
Especially in today's market, where any homeowner can list their property and have multiple offers within days.
To make it work, you need to become an expert at finding distressed properties.
We're talking about houses with fire damage, landlords fed up with problem tenants, people going through divorces, or properties tied up in messy estates.
You'll need websites, advertising budgets, direct mail campaigns, and often teams of virtual assistants making hundreds of calls.
It's a numbers game, and the numbers aren't pretty.
Very few homeowners will sell at the 25-35% discount you need to make the deal work.
But this is where it gets interesting.
While everyone's fighting over these increasingly rare wholesale deals, there's another opportunity that most people have never heard of.
One where you're not competing with dozens of other investors and where the profits can be even bigger.
It's called tax sale overages, and it's completely transforming how smart investors are making money in real estate.
Instead of trying to convince people to sell their homes at a massive discount, you're helping people recover money they didn't even know they had.
Here's how it works: When properties go to foreclosure auction, they often sell for more than the debt owed—way more.
Remember that $400,000 house? If it goes to auction for unpaid taxes (say around $50,000), it might sell for $300,000.
That leaves $250,000 in excess funds—money that legally belongs to the former owner.
However, most people never claim this money because they don't know it exists.
One state study showed that over 70% of these funds go unclaimed, eventually forfeiting to the government.
We're talking about tens, sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars, just sitting there waiting to be claimed.
Unlike wholesaling, where you need to make hundreds of calls to find one person willing to sell at a huge discount, with overages, you're calling people to tell them about money they didn't know they had.
You're not asking them to give up anything – you're offering to help them recover what's rightfully theirs.
This business model is beautifully simple: You get lists of unclaimed overages (usually free), find the former owners' contact information (about $20-30 per month for search services), and reach out to let them know about their unclaimed money.
When they hire you to help recover the funds, you earn a percentage – typically 30-40% – of what you recover.
No websites needed. No expensive advertising campaigns. No virtual assistant teams making endless calls.
Just you, helping people recover money that would otherwise be lost forever.
In today's market, with high inflation and increasing foreclosures, which business would you rather be in?
One where you're begging people to sell their houses at massive discounts?
Or one where you're helping people recover money they didn't know they had?
The choice is yours. But I know where the smart money is going.
Want to learn more about how this business really works?
I've put together a free training that shows you exactly how to get started.
Because while everyone else is fighting over increasingly scarce wholesale deals, there's a better opportunity waiting for those who know where to look.