The tenant, the seller, the closing that went sideways. No lesson required.
I've been sitting on 90 acres of mixed timber and pasture for a long time and finally decided to market off the back 30 as one tract. Hired a pilot who does mostly land work, Part…
A tired, tenant-vacant house with a seller wanting a fast exit is a familiar setup for a double close where the wholesaler takes title rather than assigning the contract. A transa…
I was finishing trim in a vacant townhouse when the listing photographer came through. I figured I'd be in his way for an hour. He was done and loading the car in about fifty minu…
A full listing photo shoot involves more preparation than most sellers expect. A photographer arriving with two tripods and a 3D scanning rig will typically walk the whole house f…
Here is a scene worth describing, because it repeats at every local meetup and it is where a lot of people first hit the wall between residential and commercial. Someone reads onl…
So I sat in on a call I had no business being on. A guy I know does investor relations for a sponsor that buys hotels and he said come listen, you'll learn something. Twenty minut…
Raw acreage in a township with no comparable sale in roughly two years is one of the harder assignments an appraiser takes on, and it is worth understanding what that process look…
A property services relationship with a vineyard client, mostly the tasting room and event barn, can turn up an unexpected lesson in risk. Picture arriving at six in the morning a…
I'm land and long holds and I don't do any of this, but I ended up at a small dinner where two people spent forty minutes arguing about pref equity and I finally admitted I didn't…
Did a full gut on a three bedroom for a guy who was going into the program with it for the first time. Kitchen, bath, all the flooring, new panel because the old one was a mess. G…
A sponsor I've been tracking for eventual first-deal reasons let me listen to a recap call. Not participating, just muted and listening, because I'd asked enough questions that he…
First rental purchase, closing in a few weeks. I got permission to be at the appraisal because I wanted to see how it worked and because I'm nervous about everything right now. Th…
Here is a scene worth describing, because it says a lot about how good land agents actually work. A long-term holder owns a handful of raw parcels. One borders a subdivision that…
I'm still in the researching phase on land, mostly holding patterns and figuring out what I'd actually do with a tract, but I wanted marketing-grade aerial on a 60 acre piece I wa…
Take an ADU project that started with a hand drawing of a cottage over a detached garage, brought to the planning counter in 2022. A quick review there found the garage sitting tw…
My cousin found a 1950s ranch that needed everything. His hard money lender covered 80 percent of purchase and most of the rehab budget, and he was about 38 thousand short on the…
There is a real gap between how hotel investments get pitched on paper and how a hotel actually earns money on a given night, and it is worth understanding before reading another…
Anyone new to notes runs into the same wall. Every article assumes the reader already knows the vocabulary, and seasoning is one of the words that gets used constantly without eve…
Sat next to a man in a folding chair at a kids' swim meet last spring. He had a legal pad on his knee with columns of lender names and little marks next to them, and he was updati…
I've been tagging along with a guy from my gym who owns a few buildings, mostly so I can be useful and listen. Saturday he asked me to help him move a folding table into a fourple…
