FortuneBuilders Student Success

A couple of years ago, one of our team members met a local real estate agent at a networking event. They hit it off, grabbed coffee the next week, and even went on double dates. Her boyfriend, an investor, and wholesaler, brought this deal to our team. It was a single-family vacant lot at the…

This property was from a referral from another seller I was working with. The initial property was found through Facebook Marketplace. I didn't know how to handle the paperwork, so I reached out to my local network and a guy advised me to find a mover to buy it. I posted it on Facebook Marketplace,…

The deal was acquired through a private lender who foreclosed on a borrower and was offering it as a wholesale deal. The deal was funded through a fellow FortubeBuilders student who was looking to seek hands-on education by doing a deal. This particular rehab was a full gut with about 700sf addition, detached garage, and…

I found the deal thru the MLS. I funded this deal with a PML. The entire house was demo-ed and gutted due to the poor shape that it was in. This deal was unique because I encountered many setbacks from my first general contractor quitting and walking away because of the large amount of work…

I purchased the deal through working with a Real Estate agent which was listed on the MLS. The deal was funded with hard money and also personal funds, with a rehab budget of $40,000. We eliminated a couple of small walls to open up the main entrance to the house. Installed all new doors, new…

We found this deal with one of our realtors via the MLS. We self funded the puchase and worked with a local hard money lender for the rehab. This was a bank owned property that had multiple offers on it. Ours was accepted because it was a strong cash offer that waived inspection, took the…

On November 3rd, 2020 we closed on our 6th Rental Deal this year! Located in Jacksonville, Florida the 8337 Cocoa Ave home was built in 2020 and consists of 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, and a 2-car garage with 1330 s.f. of living space. We located this opportunity with one of the FortuneBuilders partners, JWB. The…

We want to thank everyone that helped us get to this point CAW! This is our first deal and it started as a rehab then turned into a rental. A realtor in Nashville introduced me to a contractor in Alabama. We funded the deal with our own money at first/then a private lender to finish.…

Implemented off-market Facebook campaign. We got it under contract and collected all the short-sale documents and handed them to our agent for short-sale listing and negotiation process. Civic funded 70% of the purchase price, 100% rehabs. Removed and replaced roof shingles, windows, doors, flooring, kitchen, and bathrooms. Painted inside & out. Removed all debris left…

This property is a 4-bd/2-ba, 1225 sq ft, stone 2/2 duplex located in the suburb of Greenfield. Tenants both had moved out and seller was interested in selling as is rather than doing the repairs to get it re-rented.

Nathan and I jumped headfirst into the deal and just utilized the methods taught to us by FortuneBuilders. We had such a good time exercising the education in real life and came out on the good side of profit, especially for the area!

We found this deal, cold calling high equity owners. This was a rental and renter just left and the property was in great shape. We only put carpet and paint all for under $2000 (2-3 days). The property was bought, rehab, and closed in 6 weeks.

This was a big rehab to finish. Initially I started with a rehab budget of $65,000. When I got into the rehab and found more things, I ended up spending $85,000 to make it more appealable to sell. This house had a downside that it was on a shared driveway and once listed for a…

We found this property on Facebook, talked to the owner in May. They have had tough times due to Covid, including the death of loved ones. After looking at pictures I told them that they should list the property & would get top dollar. Gave them my good friend & agent's contact info so they…

The properties are a part of the rebuild Indianapolis program. These properties are distressed properties and are in need of many repairs. Using the tools provided through FortuneBuilders we found and were able to fund the properties.

This was an MLS listed deal that we made an initial offer on in March. Through months of follow-up and watching the property continue to take price reductions, we re-stated our original offer. We acquired the property through Private Money Lending funds and were able to renovate the full interior including flooring, cabinets, lights, and…

This was a pocket deal from a REALTOR friend of mine. This property had been occupied by an older couple prior to the death of the husband. The husband had made some "unique modifications" to the property like, putting a wheelchair accessible bathroom on the first floor, in the middle of a room, and other…

This was an off-market property that we got through personal relationships. It was originally the jail and was estimated to have been built between 1830 and 1850. It was a unique build because all of the boards were stacked horizontally versus vertical stick builds today. (you could build 10 houses with the amount of wood…

We were relocating and started looking at property opportunities during a visit. We found this property on the MLS and realized it was a great opportunity in the area. We also looked at the rental market and determined there was a big demand. We painted, updated flooring, made some electrical repairs, and cleaned it up.…

This property started out as a short term flip and became a buy and hold in a college town. We bought it, did the obvious cosmetic repairs, completely rehabbed the kitchen. converted the small one car attached garage into a man cave, electrical, cable, insulation, drywall, and lighting. Upgraded electrical service and completely replaced the…

We got this from an agent with whom we've bought a house in the past. She reached out to us before she put it on the market and we offered what the sellers were expecting to get plus we waived our contingencies, so there was no "bidding war". We funded the deal through a Hard…

We found this great Houston condo deal through our SMS Broadcast Campaign to Preforeclosure leads; it cost us only $0.02! No repairs were made and no financing needed since we decided to "virtually wholesale" it to a local buyer in that market. However, we had the deal underwritten by two of our lenders to secure…

This property was purchase in a foreclosure auction. It is a 1960 sqft 3,2 double wide on 2 acres in the country. It needed a new roof, new septic, new complete kitchen, new flooring throughout, some updating for bathrooms, two wood decks, one new porch, new underpinning, and interior paint all-around. The deal was funded…

We found this property through a local wholesaler. It had been rented for approximately 30 years and needed to be completely gutted. Interestingly, Google view photos showed that the renters had stored about a dozen cars on the property behind a fence. All cars and junk was removed before we purchased the property luckily. We…

Our Sharon Project was our first rehab and we found a deal through MLS by setting up alerts for "AS-IS" properties. Multiple offers were submitted and though, we weren't the highest offer, the seller accepted our offer due to the all-cash proof of funds letter able to close within 2 days. This deal was fully…

This took I got from driving for dollars. The seller responded back off the first piece of mail. I got the house under contract the next day. I sent this deal out to my VIP cash buyers list no one was interest at the price I had because it did have a mortgage. This was…

This was a 4 house deal that we bought from a tired investor as a package deal. We were originally under contract with three different investors on the deal but ultimately we simultaneous closed with two other investors, keeping the 4th, a duplex, as a renovation project.

This property was brought to our attention by our real estate broker through an MLS listing. The property is a 24 unit office building located in the central business district of a small city 45 minutes north of Boston, MA. It was listed for less than 1 day before we put in our cash offer.…

Our first offer was not accepted. Found the deal on the MLS. The original buyers backed out due to the potential leaky roof (it had been fixed!), and the amount of mold remediation. This was an absentee owner who had neglected to check on the property until the City of Eau Claire contacted them with…

We got this deal from the MLS. We used ourselves as PML to fund this deal and Credit Cards, HELOC for gap funding. We made the following repairs to the property. We opened up the kitchen, refinished cabinets, new flooring, changed windows, kitchen and bathroom renovations. new front landscaping The house was in a flood…

Found the home on MLS and funded the deal using our personal HELOC. Home went under a "full gut rehab", right down to the studs. All new mechanicals, plumbing, electrical, etc. Created an "open floor" plan on the first floor and also added a bath on the first floor. Home originally had just one bath…

Found the property from Direct Mail. Received a call from the resident, the owner had passed and she needed help and couldn't do any repairs. Meanwhile, we found the heir to the property and informed them that their father had passed. They were not aware and it had been 3 months. We then worked with…

This was JV deal that was found by my JV partner who is also a real estate agent. We knocked the house down to the ground and re-built it adding a second story. Our house was the only house on this particular street with an attached garage so in addition to that, everything in the…

We found the deal via our realtor. The unit was owned by the same person we purchased a previous unit from the year before. The unit had been on the market for a while. Susana submitted a strong offer and the seller accepted. The strength of the relationship between the seller and buyer was key…

Seller walked up to my friends' house, they were neighbors and asked her if she could buy her house. My friend called me immediately and the next day I had negotiated and submitted an offer to purchase. I bought with a conventional mortgage, raised private money for 25% of the down payment. I did painting…

The property was priced at $155,000 but appraised lower at $140,000, so we purchased it for $145,000. We closed on the property on the 15th and have already made money on the property.

In May of 2020, we found this deal through a wholesaler. We were not able to see the property other than a few pictures before we purchased it, and the project was delayed because the tenants had a hard time finding another property due to COVID restrictions. We were able to fund the deal with…

This was a deal I got through networking. A friend of a friend was selling their ill dad’s house and needed a quick and convenient transaction. The backyard had 3 broken down recreational vehicles and tons of scrap metal and junk.