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I'm looking at 60 acres about nine miles past the last recorded subdivision. Asking is $4,200 an acre, so $252k, taxes run about $1,900 a year on the current ag classification, no…
Duplex under contract subject-to, seller's loan balance around $211k at 3.75%, and her hazard premium is paid out of her escrow. My insurance agent says he can't just add me to he…
Deal in front of me: 1970s farmhouse on 11.4 acres at the edge of a growth path, seller relocating, existing loan 211,600 at 3.75% with 26 years left, PITI 1,430 (P&I 1,038, taxes…
I'm looking at a duplex listed at $340k, and the listing sheet says 6.8% cap. The lender I talked to went through my income, my credit, the down payment, and the appraisal, and ca…
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…
Reading an option agreement a family friend's agent sent over. House near my sister, asking $289k, and the owner has offered a lease with an option because it's been sitting. The…
I have four small buildings and I've never done one of these, but a tenant in one of my duplex units asked whether she could buy the unit over time and I'm reading up before I ans…
I put 12k into a public non-traded REIT last year. This is the smallest amount I've ever felt nervous about, and the reason I'm writing it up is that the part that mattered wasn't…
I have a 1.1 acre vacant lot I've been trying to sell for 95k. Been listed nine months, two lowballs, and now someone wants it for the full 95 if I'll take 10k down and payments o…
Trying to figure out the actual line items on the seller side. My understanding is I hand over a deed, get a note back, and then money shows up monthly. That can't be free. So: wh…
Something that doesn't come up when people compare a fourplex to four houses: in a fourplex the tenants share space, and they compare notes. Parking spot two is closer to the door…
Two fourplexes on my list, within 15k of each other on price, and the mix is the only real difference. Building A is four one-bedrooms at 900, so 43,200 gross. Building B is two t…
This is the kind of question I'd have kept my mouth shut about in a room full of people, so here it is in writing. Two bed two bath condo in a lake town about two hours from where…
$465k, 3/2, walkable to the main street of a small tourist city. The city licenses short-term rentals annually and caps non owner occupied licenses at 4% of the housing stock. The…
Ran the numbers on a deal in front of me and the headline spread is misleading. Underlying: 218k remaining at 3.9, roughly 22 years left, payment 1,430 plus escrow. Proposed wrap:…
Been doing quick turns, 60 to 90 days, buy with hard money at 11.5% and two points, out. Never held anything. Somebody brought me a seller who won't take cash and I don't know how…
This is my first look at anything in the shared-housing space, so beginner questions ahead. An operator I've met twice is raising for a small fund, six houses, all rented by the r…
I called for a quote on a four-bedroom house I'm analyzing, told the agent I'd be renting the bedrooms individually, and the first thing she asked was how many unrelated adults wo…
What I want is income that does not become a second job. I have been looking at small parks in the 500k to 900k range because the returns on paper look better than the small renta…
Just started looking at this stuff. Two things tripped me up in the same afternoon. First, I pulled up a REIT and its price-to-earnings number looked insane compared to normal sto…