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Posting the variance because the shape of it surprised me and I've since seen it in two other operators' books. Acquisition: 610k on an eleven room licensed house in a mid-size ma…
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Fourteen months of looking, one purchase. Posting the numbers because the part I got right and the part that nearly killed it were both about the license, and I didn't expect eith…
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First purchase, a five bedroom house in a working neighborhood, bought as a normal rental. The plan I talked myself into was renting bedrooms individually on separate leases, 525…
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I spent six months researching, and my first real move was a conversion that never got permission to exist. The property: a 4,100 square foot 1920s house, six bedrooms, two baths,…
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Two years in on a 10 room licensed house I took over with residents already in place. The number I actually track is average tenancy measured at move-out, and it went from 7 month…
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The seller's agent said the house had "always been a rooming house." It had. Six rooms, all occupied, papers going back to the eighties. What nobody said, and what I never asked i…