How to find off-market properties in today’s market

Anson Young is a real estate agent and the owner of Anson Property Group, which is based in Denver, CO, and specializes in distressed property purchases. As a full-time real estate investor for the past ten years, he has completed more than 120 wholesale deals and 95 flips. Anson and his team specialize in marketing directly to sellers for off-market deals, using many of the methods that can be found in his book Finding & Funding Great Deals. A common talking point today is that supply is low, demand is high, and cash-flowing deals are hard to come by. Anson pushes back on this by focusing on finding off-market deals. These off-market properties, otherwise known as pocket listings, are a great source of leads for those that know how to find them. By using some old-fashioned elbow grease, Anson is able to find cash-flowing deals in competitive markets. Today, Anson shares his insights on how he finds off-market deals in today's market. Episode links: https://www.instagram.com/younganson/?hl=en https://www.biggerpockets.com/users/anson https://www.youtube.com/c/ansonyoung --- Transcripts Before we jump into the episode, here's a quick disclaimer about our content. The Remote Real Estate Investor podcast is for informational purposes only, and is not intended as investment advice. The views, opinions and strategies of both the hosts and the guests are their own and should not be considered as guidance from Roofstock. Make sure to always run your own numbers, make your own independent decisions and seek investment advice from licensed professionals.   Michael: What's going on everyone? Welcome to another episode of the Remote Real Estate Investor. I'm Michael Albaum, and today I'm joined by Anson Young, who is an investor, agent, wholesaler out in the Denver, Colorado area and he's gonna be talking to us today about how do you find off market deals in today's market environment. So let's get into it.   Hey, everyone, before jumping into the episode today, I would just like to encourage everyone to leave us a rating or review wherever it is you listen to your podcasts, they are super, super helpful for us in getting out there to a wider audience. So if you'd like the content we're producing, or even if you don't like the content we're producing, we'd love to hear from you. Let us know how we can improve and do better, so thanks so much and well let's get into the episode, Anson Young, what's going on, man, thanks so much for hanging out with me today, appreciate you.   Anson: Yeah, thanks for having me. It is awesome.   Michael: Now, I'm super excited. So I know a little bit about your background. But I would love if you could share with our listeners who might not be familiar with you, who you are, where you come from, and what is your doing in real estate.   Anson: Yeah, so I come from Denver and we were just talking about how there's not many natives left. But I was born and raised here and what I do is for since 2006-2005, I've done investment, real estate fix and flips wholesale. Wholesale are just now getting into kind of burr buying holds looking more into short term market and I've been licensed since about 2007. So I've been licensed almost as long as I've been investing.   Michael: So right on we actually like just before this episode, we're recording with another guy who is a broker, licensed broker agent as well, as an investor we were talking about, does it make sense for investors to go get their license and kind of vice versa and so that was a really interesting discussion. Has it helped you in your investing being a licensed agent?   Anson: Yeah, I don't know honestly, how people do without it, because I can't stand waiting for waiting on other people. So if I had to wait for somebody to send me comps, or if I had to wait for somebody to submit an offer, I would probably go insane. So being able just to do that myself, is huge. So but besides that there's a lot of advantages for sure. I have never regret