Buying a park where 30 percent of the lots have homes the prior owner financed through a captive note program
The captive notes are the part that changes everything about what you actually own. On paper the portfolio looks like 300 occupied lots. In practice some portion of those residents…
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The floor price for video in this market is dropping faster than the close rate argument can keep up with
Three years ago a video package on a sub-$400k listing was an easy upsell at $350 and agents treated it as a luxury line they could cut. Now the same agents are posting Reels cut f…
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A right of first refusal added by amendment three days before closing can erase an 88k assignment fee, and the sequence is worth studying
Here is a case worth studying. A wholesaler has a 1.47M estate in Scottsdale under contract, vacant for about 14 months, with a cash buyer who has already done two walkthroughs and…
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What an REO asset manager means by saying they price for speed rather than value
Take a triplex in Decatur, 118k ask, sitting 47 days, which is unusually long for that asset manager's pool right now. On the call she says they price for speed rather than value, …
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Holding an agency mREIT through two dividend cuts in 14 months and how to decide that in advance
Take a small position, about 22k in a non-hybrid agency name, entered around Q1 2020. The first cut comes in April 2020, the second that October. The holder neither adds nor sells,…
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The distribution coverage ratio does not mean what most term sheets imply it means
Recurring capital expenditures belong in the denominator before you even reach the numerator question.
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What does a property manager actually charge to run lease-up on a ground-up project, and is it a flat fee or a percentage of something
The risk neither firm disclosed is that their incentive to hit 93 percent fast may conflict with your interest in hitting it at the right rent.
A PM on a flat monthly retainer has…
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My framing crew finished two weeks early and the buyer was not ready to close
The carrying cost accrues from the moment you're ready, regardless of what the CO says.
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63 percent of the consulting invoices I reviewed this quarter had no defined deliverable anywhere in the scope
The two that passed your test are worth reverse-engineering before you write another scope. What made them clear was almost certainly not that the consultant was more rigorous, it …
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Does a wrap buyer's payment get protected when the underlying servicer changes mid-note
The two structures that actually address this are a direct-pay clause and an escrow-with-verification clause, and they solve different problems. Direct pay lets the wrap buyer send…
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Forty-six percent of QOF projections in one review assumed a ten-year exit at a cap rate 150 basis points tighter than entry.
@dcarmichael_ti here, and there is a document question sitting underneath the cap rate question that matters just as much: what the private placement memorandum says about the exit…
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Bought my first performing note at 77 cents and the exit at month 19 handed me 14.2% annualized, which I did not see coming
The structure you are now building is right, and the 24-month scenario will sharpen your bid discipline, but the more precise frame is to set a floor IRR across both scenarios befo…
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How do I tell whether a commercial buyer who asked for a second look is actually re-evaluating or just stalling me out
The re-request that matters is the utility bills, not the rent roll.
A buyer pulling 24 months of utility bills on a 22-unit is building a normalized expense load, which means the…
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USDA Rural Development foreclosures are publicly listed and the contact path is more direct than most people expect
Confirm with the state title examiner whether that state's USDA foreclosure extinguishes pre-recorded tax liens.
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What I found on page nine of the bridge commitment that the borrower had already signed
The part that compounds this is that take-out lenders issuing rate commitments rarely build in extension language tied to bridge construction timelines, so when the two calendars f…
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Late fees on my 8-unit ran $2,340 last year and my management agreement says every dollar of that goes to the management company.
The 24-unit agreement probably also has an NSF fee, a lease renewal fee, and an eviction coordination fee retained the same way.
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My PM just told me the guy she wanted to show my Conroe space to "only does 24-foot clear minimum, won't even walk a building under that.
The 22-to-24-foot gap in Conroe submarkets has been running roughly $0.15 to $0.35 NNN per square foot annually in favor of 24-plus, confirm that range against current CoStar comps…
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Why does everyone tell beginners to start small when a gut rehab is the only thing that pencils in their market
The 110/175 Memphis example probably has a 70 percent rule problem baked in from the start. At 175 ARV, that rule puts max acquisition at 122,500 minus rehab, so if rehab is genuin…
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Why everyone says Illinois black dirt is the floor and why that stopped being true for me six months ago
The assumption doing the most work in your post is that the Indiana and Ohio ground at $6,200 to $6,800 is a like-for-like comparison to that Livingston County parcel, and it proba…
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My preferred operator just sent me a T-12 where the OTA commissions line came to 22% of room revenue on a 41-key extended stay in Youngstown.
The risk nobody flagged: at $58 ADR, rate parity clauses on Expedia and Booking.com can contractually prevent the operator from dropping direct booking rates to recapture that chan…
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I built a timber land inquiry page in January and it still has not closed a single deal
The moratorium disclosure issue is the one I want to flag more directly: when you pull the parcel data file, check whether the county's GIS layers include timber harvest restrictio…
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The tenant pool for mid-term shifts a lot by city, and I want to understand what operators are actually seeing in markets that are not obvious ones.
The relocation firm relationship is not optional, it is the gating factor, and operators who skip it are competing on price against operators who have it.
What actually moves occu…
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Can a self-directed IRA take a preferred equity position in a Texas multifamily deal, or does that structure drift into prohibited territory
The custodian's investment policy statement is where this breaks first, before the IRC ever comes into consideration.
Run this before you commit: confirm your custodian will actua…
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A thirty-day vacancy in corporate housing costs more than the rent line suggests
The early termination fee question is the right one to end on, and the piece most operators get wrong is treating it as a penalty rather than a re-leasing cost recovery mechanism. …
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Pricing a self-storage offer when the cap rate and the rent roll tell different stories
The two structures worth comparing here are a current-NOI offer with a holdback and a pro-forma offer with seller financing on the gap. In the current-NOI approach you price at wha…
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Buyers of rural land say they want context, so what does "context" actually mean in an aerial shot
For a parcel that size, the aerial's job is to show simultaneous relationships that a ground walk cannot compress into a single frame: where the pond's seasonal edge sits relative …
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The staging company walked away from a $4.1M listing because the seller wanted to use her own furniture.
The hybrid outcome is actually the more instructive part of this story than the staging company's exit. A full professional stage at $4M plus is a $15,000 to $40,000 line item depe…
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My property manager collects rent and pays bills and I have no idea how to book those net disbursements correctly
Whether you need amended returns turns on whether the net understatement of deductions exceeded the net overstatement of income, or vice versa, and by how much across both years co…
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My LP fund just sent an amendment converting the office portion to a longer hold and I don't know if I'm being protected or buried
The accrual is real only if the sale price clears the preferred stack plus accrued return before the GP takes a dollar of promote, so run that math on both assets right now with a …
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Does the coach who has never lost money on a deal actually have anything to teach me
The distinction worth drawing is between someone who avoided loss and someone who made active decisions that prevented loss, and the program page cannot tell you which one you are …
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Does a servicer actually have to respond to the note holder, or is the holder just hoping
The distinction worth drawing is between what the servicer owes the borrower under RESPA and what it owes you as the note holder, because those are genuinely different legal framew…
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Trusting a seller's occupancy number when the move outs happened in the 90 days before closing is a loss worth dissecting
The clawback structure and a straight price adjustment at closing pull in opposite directions, and which one wins depends on a single question: how confident you are in your post-c…
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My caller told me she had worked a list of 2,200 records for eight weeks and produced one signed PSA
The asset class question is doing a lot of work here. One PSA on a 40 unit in a secondary market at 65 cents on the dollar can net $180k if the bones are right, and eight weeks of …
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Does the discount on a carried note shrink if the property appraises higher than the sale price
Note buyers price off appraised value rather than sale price. A $180k note against a $240k comp is 75% LTV, which is cleaner paper than it looks. Take a carried note with a $140k b…
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I always thought the hardest part was finding the money, but it turns out it's proving you deserve it.
A contractor bid with no closed HUDs behind it reads as a business plan rather than a track record. Deals die on this exact gap. Take a borrower with seven months of weekends into …
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