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I've been the person in this room asking questions for a long time, so here's how the first one actually went. Side-by-side duplex, two bed one bath each, built 1988, vinyl siding…
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This closed a bit over two years ago and I sold it in the fall, so I can write it down without flinching now. Building was a 1920s two-story in an older streetcar neighborhood, ma…
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Triplex, 470k, bought as a long hold with a manager on it so I could stay out of the day to day. Gross rents 3,975 a month. My model showed about 640 a month of cash flow after ev…
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Fourplex, two up two down, 585k, in a first ring suburb where the current zoning only permits two units per lot. The building predates the zoning by about forty years. County prop…
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Fourteen months, three properties under contract, none closed. Costs: 1,900 on the first including a sewer scope, 2,400 on the second, 2,500 on the third which included a lender a…
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Side by side duplex, both units two bed one bath, built in the fifties. Contract at 342k. Appraisal came back at 331k and I sat with that email for about an hour before I understo…