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I hit the ceiling on my active deals and started underwriting a 12 room house that the current owner runs with two meals a day and weekly room cleaning. His rents are roughly 190…
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I've run a small service business around these houses for five years, and the sentence I hear most from owners at closing is that the license transfers with the property. Then a f…
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I've spent enough time in zoning files to know the difference between a use that's allowed and a use that's allowed after a hearing, and I'm now sitting between two boarding house…
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I run services into three rooming houses and the owners all handle staffing differently, and after five years I still cannot tell which one is right. The live-in case: someone is…
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Two houses in the same submarket right now. One is a 10 room licensed rooming house asking about 90k more than comparable single family stock, license current, inspection file cle…
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Halfway through getting licensed and the boarding house owners I've met keep pushing me in two directions. One path is third party management. Fee is typically higher than convent…
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I'm mostly looking at land and holding patterns, but a listing in a small town described itself as a rooming house with 9 sleeping rooms and 21 residents on the license. That conf…
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Eleven rooms, three full baths and a half bath on the main floor. Code minimum here is one full bath per five residents, so I am compliant with room to spare, and my plumber has q…