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After five years of running a service business, the thing I learned is that how you name the charge changes how people fight about it. Bringing that into this room because I'm see…
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I've got money set aside and no deals, and I'm reading the luxury assignment numbers with real suspicion. The pitch is that the spread scales with the price, so a single distresse…
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On the second luxury file I've been near, the seller's attorney asked me a direct question on the first call: are you the buyer. I said I was the buyer of record and that I work w…
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Trellis here on the management side, so I see the tail end of these deals more than the front end. Two of the operators I manage for argue about this constantly and I want to see…
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Two operators have approached me in the last month and they want opposite things. The first wants deposit money. He's got sellers who won't take a 5k good faith check on a 1.9M ho…
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I priced a 7,800 square foot lake-adjacent house last month and the appraiser's world and mine didn't touch. Within four miles and two years there were three arguably comparable c…