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The wholesale workflow, explained in plain English.

Twenty guides across four tracks — from your first assignment contract to reading days-on-market like a motivation signal. Free, no signup.

THE SHORT ANSWER

A free library of plain-English guides covering the whole wholesale workflow: finding motivated sellers, comping a property without MLS access, running the 70% rule, skip tracing owners, and sending mail that gets calls. No account required.

TRACK 01

Wholesaling

The core playbook: what wholesaling is, finding sellers, contracts, and buyers.

01 What Is Real Estate Wholesaling? A Plain-English Primer Wholesaling explained in plain English: how contracts, assignment fees, and cash buyers work, what a real deal looks like with actual numbers, and what it takes to start. 02 How to Find Motivated Sellers: Lists, Signals, and Outreach The list-first method for finding motivated sellers: which lists produce, how to stack them, how to reach owners, and what to say when one answers the phone. 03 Driving for Dollars: The Complete Guide for Wholesalers How to drive neighborhoods, spot distressed properties, find the owners, and turn a tank of gas into an off-market deal list nobody else is working. 04 Assignment Contracts 101: How Wholesale Paperwork Works The two documents behind every wholesale deal — the purchase agreement and the assignment contract — what the key clauses do, and where new wholesalers get burned. 05 How to Build a Cash Buyers List That Actually Closes Where to find real cash buyers, how to vet them, what to record about each one, and how to keep the list warm so your next contract moves in days, not weeks.

TRACK 02

Deal analysis

Comping without the MLS, ARV, the 70% rule, and rehab numbers that hold up.

01 How to Comp a Property Without MLS Access A step-by-step method for running accurate comps using public records and free listing sites — which sales to trust, how to adjust, and the traps that wreck valuations. 02 ARV Explained: How to Calculate After-Repair Value What ARV means, how to calculate it from renovated comps, the mistakes that inflate it, and why every number in a flip or wholesale deal hangs off this one estimate. 03 The 70% Rule Explained: The Math Behind Your Maximum Offer What the 70% rule is, what the 30% margin actually pays for, when to flex to 65% or 75%, and how wholesalers fit an assignment fee inside the formula. 04 How to Estimate Rehab Costs Without a Contractor A practical system for estimating renovation costs: the per-square-foot tiers, the 12 categories that drive budgets, scoping from the curb, and contingency rules. 05 As-Is Value vs. ARV: Which Number to Use for Every Strategy As-is value prices the house today; ARV prices it renovated. Which valuation drives flips, wholesale deals, BRRRR, rentals, sub-to, and owner finance — and why. 06 Renovated Comps and Inflated ARVs: How to Avoid the Flip Trap Comping an original-condition house against renovated resales inflates your ARV by someone else's rehab. How to spot flipped comps and keep your offer math honest.

TRACK 03

Seller outreach

Skip tracing, compliance basics, direct mail, and cold-call openers.

01 What Is Skip Tracing? How Investors Find Owner Contact Info Skip tracing turns a property address into the owner's phone numbers, emails, and mailing address. Here's how it works and how investors use it to reach sellers first. 02 DNC and TCPA Compliance Basics for Investor Outreach What the Do-Not-Call registry and the TCPA mean for cold-calling sellers, what litigator flags are, and the simple rules that keep investor outreach out of court. 03 Direct Mail Letters That Get Seller Calls (4 Angles That Work) What makes a seller pick up the phone after opening your letter: keep it under 200 words, name the property, and match the angle to the owner's actual situation. 04 Cold-Call Openers for Off-Market Sellers (Scripts That Work) The first ten seconds decide the call. Openers that keep off-market owners on the phone, plus responses for "how did you get my number" and "not interested."

TRACK 04

Lists & data

The lists deals come from — pre-foreclosures, absentee owners, and motivation signals.

01 How to Find Pre-Foreclosure Properties Before the Auction Pre-foreclosures surface in county records months before auction day. Where the filings live, how to judge equity fast, and how to reach owners while they still have options. 02 Absentee and Out-of-State Owners: Why They Sell Off-Market An absentee owner's mailing address doesn't match the property. Why distance makes owners sell, which absentee signals matter most, and how to reach them first. 03 Free-and-Clear Properties: The Best Opening for Creative Finance A free-and-clear owner has no mortgage and total flexibility. Why these properties are the natural home of seller financing, and how to open that conversation. 04 How an HOA Changes an Investment Deal (Fees, Rules, and Risk) HOA fees hit cash flow, rules can block your exit strategy, and unpaid dues become liens. What to check before you contract an HOA property — and why listing data beats county records. 05 Days on Market and Price Cuts: Reading Seller Motivation DOM and price cuts are the most public motivation signals a seller gives off. How to read the pattern, avoid stale-data traps, and time below-list offers that get answered.

QUESTIONS

Before you ask

Are these guides free?

Yes. Every guide is free to read, no account or email required. They exist so you can learn the workflow — PropTitan is the tool that runs it for you.

Where should a complete beginner start?

Start with "What Is Real Estate Wholesaling" in the Wholesaling track, then read the Deal analysis track in order — comping, ARV, and the 70% rule are the skills every other guide builds on.

Do I need PropTitan to use what the guides teach?

No. Every guide teaches the manual method first — free county records, free calculators, plain spreadsheets. PropTitan compresses the same steps into minutes, and each guide shows where.

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