An investor-friendly agent is a licensed real estate agent who specializes in working with investor clients, people buying property for income or profit rather than to occupy.
Log in to followFour agents have sent me an investment summary in the past year. Every one of them had the same three problems. Vacancy at 5%, which is a number people type rather than a number t…
The same argument keeps coming at me from two directions when I read about how private capital moves, so I'd rather ask than keep guessing. One side says a specialist earns their…
Ran the arithmetic on three years of my own buy-side spend and the percentage structure looks harder to defend the bigger the deal gets. On a $180k rental, 2.5% is $4,500 and the…
Coming off a 1950s three bed I bought at $186k from a seller she found through a property manager she knows. Nothing on MLS, no competing offers, and she took a reduced buy-side f…
I've been at research for six months with nothing closed, and I finally sat down with two agents in the same week. First one owns nine rentals himself, has had a license for eleve…
I've now had coffee with four agents and every one of them said the word "investor-friendly" before I did. Two of them then sent me owner-occupant listings with a cap rate typed a…