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I've got eight hours a week and I'm not interested in inventing more. That's the whole constraint. Weekends are not available and evenings are half available. Everything I read ab…
Closed this last spring, done unwinding it now, so here are the numbers. Off-market lead, tired landlord, 22 years of ownership, came off a mail campaign I'd been running for six…
Mid-process on a couple of things and realized I've never thought about this. I'm not buying, I'm putting properties under contract and assigning. Nobody has mentioned insurance t…
I've been getting ready for a first rental for about a year, mostly reading about screening tenants, and now something landed in my inbox before I was ready for it. A guy who call…
I'm building out a done-for-you dispo and transaction coordination service for wholesalers. Flat $1,500 per closing. The work is taking their signed purchase contract, sending it…
Third inquiry this quarter came from a general contractor prequalifying subs for hyperscale work about 90 minutes out. Big scopes, long schedules, prequalification requirements I'…
I own small multifamily and I've never done a land deal, so I'm going to define the words as I understand them and someone can correct me. Entitlement means getting the government…
I've been saving toward a first purchase and I got impatient with 4 percent, so a year and a half ago I put 225k into the second lien position on a luxury flip instead. It paid of…
House is a 1,900 sq ft two story I bought 19 months ago for $312k with about $8k in closing costs. I've put $68k into it, receipts kept, mostly kitchen, two baths, windows, and a…
Planning my first purchase and a live-in flip looks like the version I can actually stand. Where I keep getting stuck is the loan. The houses I like have no kitchen or a bathroom…
Two operators told me two opposite things this month and I can't decide which one is right. The first funds every deposit himself, usually small, and says it keeps the file clean.…
Deal was 118k on a 3/2 in a first ring suburb, going out at 133k, fee 15k, split 60/40 to my partner because he brought the seller and I brought the buyer. My first real fee and I…
This one closed last month and most of what mattered was the paperwork, so bear with me. The property: a 1,450 square foot two story in an older working class neighborhood about 9…
I'm two years out of a different career and running the numbers on a live-in flip before I commit, and the piece I can't resolve is basis. Say purchase at $265,000, and over 26 mo…
I look at deals from the lending side and I'd never seen one of these come across as a borrower profile until this spring. Someone came to me for a second position loan of 60k aga…
For anyone new: a notice of default is the document a lender or trustee records at the county when a borrower is far enough behind for foreclosure to start. It's public. That's ho…
Finished a 5,900 sq ft luxury flip in late spring. Bought at 2.6M, all in at 3.68M including a scope overrun I'd rather not relitigate. Listed at 4.45M on comps that supported 4.3…
Looking at a luxury flip as a passive investor. Deck says $2.6M acquisition, $700k renovation budget, $4.2M target resale. Debt at 65 percent of cost, 12 month term with one 6 mon…
A broker I know in a small land and rural market is sitting on a decision I find genuinely hard to call. He has nine agents. Four of them close, five don't. Over the last year he'…
I've spent about a year reading about this and watching two subdivisions go in near me, and I still can't tell whether I'm supposed to start small or start adjacent. The two paths…