A seller signed the contract, then leased the timber rights to a logging company the next day before the assignment closed.
The parcel was 47 acres in a county where timber rights run with the land unless severed by a recorded instrument, and no severance was recorded, so the lease was binding on any bu…
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When a NNN tenant goes dark but keeps paying, what does that do to the sale price?
A retailer with eight years of term remaining stops operating out of the location, locks the doors, and mails the rent on time every month. The lease is intact, the guaranty is int…
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The address everyone ignores in a driving for dollars list is the neighbor next door.
Say you log a boarded Victorian because the siding is half gone and the yard is waist-high weeds. The owner of that property may be unreachable, in probate, or simply not ready. Bu…
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An REO fund that assumes courthouse steps supply will translate into acquisitions usually finds it does not
Here is a fund pattern worth working through, because it catches a lot of first time LPs. Eighteen months in, an REO fund has deployed maybe 35 percent of committed capital. The th…
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How a senior loan modification can cram a preferred equity position when the notice clause never defined material
Here is a case worth studying for anyone in a pref position on a value-add deal with bridge debt. Picture a pref investor 14 months into a 36-month hold on a 220-unit garden comple…
Thread · 15 points
Does anyone actually run a land deal when their only prior closing experience is wholesaling
The sourcing skill does carry, but the gap you are describing is not about finding dirt, it is about knowing what the dirt costs to build once you own it. The Phoenix buyer on thos…
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The distribution coverage ratio does not mean what most term sheets imply it means
The coverage ratio framing also interacts with return of capital distributions in a way the term sheet almost never flags: if the fund is returning investor principal to make up th…
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The PR accepted a full-price offer, the court confirmed the sale, and the deal still fell apart at the funding wire.
The creditor window and the confirmation order are separate legal events, and treating them as one is what sinks these deals. Court confirmation establishes the sale price and term…
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My framing crew finished two weeks early and the buyer was not ready to close
The trigger is almost always the contract, not the CO.
Confirm with your attorney exactly which event starts your closing deadline clock, today.
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Rural land notes sold to a fund versus held to term is not a clean comparison unless you account for what you do with the cash
The piece of this comparison that usually gets compressed is what "12 percent on a $40,000 balance" actually means in yield terms once you account for the origination basis. If the…
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The cap rate on a NNN property is only as good as the lease language nobody reads until closing
The lease structure you described also interacts with renewal option rent, which most year-by-year models treat as a given but almost never stress. If the primary term runs flat an…
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The depreciation method my accountant chose is cutting my passive losses in half compared to what the other one projected
The study cost is a capital expenditure you depreciate too, not a current deduction.
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Cockroach infestations show up on inspections more than buyers expect, and the source matters more than the count
The assumption doing the most work here is that the inspector identified the species at all, and most standard home inspection reports do not go that far. Inspectors typically note…
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The property manager wants a flat annual contract and I want per-job pricing, and I cannot figure out which side of that argument actually benefits me.
Flat contracts win on volume efficiency; per-job wins when unit condition is unpredictable.
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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
What is each buyer's typical hold period, because a value-add buyer and a stabilized-asset buyer read the same utility bills for completely different reasons?
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USDA Rural Development foreclosures are publicly listed and the contact path is more direct than most people expect
The installment resale angle is where the acquisition cost gap actually creates margin.
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How much of a storage facility's stated NOI is actually repeatable when you strip out the one-time items
The rent roll tells you the floor, but the category I would pressure alongside late fees is the expense side of the reimbursement line. If the seller negotiated a favorable utility…
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The client says six to nine months, so how many of you actually build a hard minimum term into the lease?
The clause I see undercut this math most often is the one that lets the tenant terminate early by paying X weeks of rent, where X was set without modeling the furniture depreciatio…
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My property manager said REITs are not real investing and now I cannot let it go
The property manager is describing a feeling, not a category error. What she means is that REITs do not give you the control levers that direct ownership does: you cannot force app…
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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 misconception worth clearing up is that OTA mix shift is a demand problem. At $58 ADR in an extended stay market, the demand is almost certainly corporate relocation, insurance…
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The easement the deed describes and the easement that actually exists on the ground are sometimes two different things
The survey exception waiver is doing something most buyers do not track: it shifts the risk from the insurer to the buyer for anything a competent survey would have revealed, and t…
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Negative cash flow makes a subject-to deal harder to price, not impossible
Month-to-month cuts closing timelines but the seller's credit exposure is the condition that controls negotiating leverage, not the rate spread.
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Did my buyer's agent just save me from a deal or kill a good one, still not sure which
Confirm with whom the probate comp closed and at what discount before anything else.
A title company or the county recorder can pull the deed transfer and sale price in a day, and…
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Anyone else losing sleep over what their storage manager is actually doing with the gate code list
Credential cycling tied to lease status, not to unit turnover, is where third-party managers earn or lose the job.
Most management agreements I have read specify what the manager …
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The seller's attorney marked a cross-collateralization clause "standard" and neither broker flagged it.
The misconception worth correcting: cross-collateralization is genuinely common in portfolio lending, so the attorney was not necessarily being deceptive when calling it standard, …
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The tenant moved in on month nine of a ten-year hold and the investor's basis step-up clock had already been running for seven of those years.
The assumption doing the most work is that the exclusion value is fixed, when it is actually a function of the gain you are excluding multiplied by a tax rate that may not hold for…
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Does anyone in Phoenix run rooming houses as multifamily or do they underwrite them separately
Three different counts and a city license that is two rooms short of the rent roll means the operator is collecting income the city has not sanctioned, which is the first thing a l…
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The title commitment is the document most clients read last, and it is the one that should be read first.
The pushback question is where the engagement structure usually reveals its own weakness. Most clients accept the explanation because they hired the title company to explain it, wh…
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My zone deal just hit the five year mark and the step-up I was counting on is worth a lot less than I modeled
The 18k is now a contingent liability until guidance resolves, and your return modeling needs to treat it that way.
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The statutory rate is the ceiling, not the floor, and most fund decks never explain what separates the two.
The duration mismatch you are describing has a specific clause problem underneath it: most offering documents define "projected return" against the statutory rate without a corresp…
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My operator wants me to sign off on a refi at month 14 and I never agreed to a refi in the term sheet
The question your attorney needs to answer before anything else is whether the distribution of refi proceeds to you constitutes a "return of capital" or a "distribution" under the …
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The meal credit looked like an amenity. The income statement said it was a subsidy.
The assumption doing the most work is that the 340 dollar cost figure is fully loaded and stable.
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Is it normal for holding costs to eat 30% of projected lot profit before you even get to market
Eleven to thirteen months is the optimistic case when a sponsor already burned seven in county.
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How easily a wire goes out before the investor understands who is actually receiving it
The common version of this is a wire that goes out before anyone pulls the entity history on the GP. Eighteen months later it surfaces that the sponsor dissolved two prior LLCs mid…
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Bought two NPN firsts in Georgia back in February and I'm still waiting on a BPO that should have taken three weeks
Eleven weeks against a three week turnaround is a material breach. Pull the agreement and look for a cure clause.
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