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My work is on the service side of real estate with a small team under me, and I keep looking over the fence at commercial wholesaling. My understanding is that you don't need mone…
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I've been reading commercial assignment agreements lately, mostly because the paperwork holds my attention better than the buildings do. On residential everything I see is a flat…
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I've been underwriting a 7-unit retail strip, about 11,000 sf, seller wants $2.1M. His marketing sheet shows an 8.2 cap but that's proforma with the two vacant bays filled at aski…
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I've got a 40-unit garden style building tied up at 3.1m. Seller is an estate, no broker, deferred maintenance everywhere, in-place rents about $180 under market on 28 of the 40 u…
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Every spreadsheet I open turns into another spreadsheet, and I'd like to actually get to a first deal. Two things are tangled in my head. First, valuation. On residential I get it…
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An assignment of a small industrial flex building has come my way and I'd be the end buyer, 22k square feet, three tenants, contract price 1.4m, assignment fee 85k. I plan to fina…
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Every piece I read about commercial wholesaling says the motivated sellers right now are in office and older retail. Fine, I believe there are sellers. What I can't work out is th…