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SCOUTRE guide · 2 min read · August 25, 2026

Real Estate Wholesaling Software: Calculate MAO Easily

Calculating the Maximum Allowable Offer (MAO) is a crucial step in real estate wholesaling, ensuring you make informed offers that align with your investment strategy. SCOUTRE, a comprehensive real estate wholesaling software, streamlines this process by integrating key calculations and analysis into a single platform.

Understanding the MAO Calculation

MAO is the highest price you can offer on a property while still achieving your desired profit margin. SCOUTRE assists in calculating this by considering the After Repair Value (ARV), estimated repair costs, and other factors like seller motivation and exit strategies.

Key Workflow Steps

  • ARV Calculation: SCOUTRE provides an estimated ARV based on comparable property data.
  • Repair Costs: Input estimated repair costs to adjust your offer accordingly.
  • Motivation and Strategy: Assess seller motivation and choose from six exit strategies, including wholesale assignment and fix and flip.
  • Offer and Verdict: SCOUTRE calculates the true MAO, opening offer, ceiling, and provides a verdict on the deal.

Practical Outcomes and Benefits

SCOUTRE's deal analysis flow results in a comprehensive understanding of potential deals. Users can generate a PDF report summarizing the analysis, which is invaluable for decision-making and record-keeping.

With SCOUTRE, there's no need to juggle multiple tools for comps, calculations, and follow-ups. The app supports individual property lookups within plan limits, one-by-one skip traces, and lead management, all within one plan. This integration helps newer wholesalers avoid the monthly bleed of paying for separate tools.

Next Steps

SCOUTRE costs $79/month, billed at checkout and renewing monthly until canceled. No free trial. Your first postcard remains free; other physical mail is priced per piece.

Work every property from one app. Capture property, owner and distress data, analyze deal, manage lead and start outreach with SCOUTRE. Get started →

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Research the buyer side of the deal

After reviewing your offer assumptions, build a cash-buyer research shortlist. Historical purchases help identify candidates; current criteria and purchasing capacity still need verification.

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NEW · PROPERTY DISCOVERY

Explore Property Discovery.

Alongside field capture and address lookup, search supported property and ownership criteria. Preview matches, research new records and bring selected results into CRM.

See how Discovery works →

Free match counts. Research the properties that fit your strategy. Each result bundles property details, available mortgage and equity information, plus available owner phones and emails. SCOUTRE pulls Discovery results from a live dataset after purchase—not a recycled list. Most fields update daily as new feeds arrive; MLS updates intraday, while ownership changes depend on county deed publication and can take days to weeks. Single-address research is included within plan limits.