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I've been reading in circles on this. One thing I read said land banking is what big homebuilders do, where they option lots from a third party who holds them so they don't sit on…
Two years ago I bought a $215,000 three bed in a decent suburb inside a traditional SDIRA. $112,000 IRA cash down, $103,000 non-recourse at 7.9 percent on a 25 year amortization w…
I want income that doesn't turn into a second job, and this strategy looks like the version of that I can actually qualify for. What I can't settle is the pace. The fast version:…
Small one but it cost real money and I haven't seen anyone describe this failure mode, so here it is. I sold a rental in early 2024 and had a gain of about $50k. I took my time, w…
Total cost was three weekends and about $18 of gas. My state posts survey and complaint inspection results for licensed care homes online. I pulled everything for the 14 licensed…
Studying for my license now and most of the material is about representing buyers and sellers. Nothing in it touches REITs, which made me wonder whether buying them for my own acc…
I've got a brokerage account open and about six months of savings I want to put toward real estate exposure without buying a building. The two paths I keep circling are a broad RE…
I've got seven doors, mostly small stuff I bought and fixed over the last three years, and two of them are killing me on turnover. One has had four tenants in 26 months. Every tur…
Building out services for small landlords and voucher compliance keeps coming up as something people say they'd pay for, so I'm trying to price it honestly rather than guess. Two…
A guy I had done subcontract work for bought a 1958 ranch, three bed one and a half bath, in a decent working class pocket. Purchase 168k, his money, his loan. I did the rehab: fu…
I've been building a buy list for room rentals for a while and kept hitting the same wall: I could find 4 bed houses all day, and I had no idea which ones I'd be allowed to rent b…
I handle lease-ups and turns for a handful of owners with voucher units, and the request amount is where I get overruled most often. Two defensible strategies and I've watched bot…
I'm planning a first purchase and I've narrowed to two single family houses, both around 1,100 square feet, both older. Section 8 keeps coming up as the steady option and the paym…
40 acres, half pasture half scrub, in a county where the average parcel trades a couple times a decade. Seller called off a letter, said she had inherited it from her father in 20…
Something clicked reading through this. The reason absentee owners sell at steep discounts isn't that they're bad at math, it's that the parcel produces a bill every year and noth…
I'm back to building a list instead of buying because the last one took 14 months and about 180k off me, and I'd rather write down why than pretend it was the market. Twelve bed l…
I'm going to lay this out simply because I understood almost none of it at the time and I suspect other people reading are where I was. A friend I've known 15 years owns a 210-uni…
Bought a triplex two years ago at 412k, 3.5 percent down, owner-occupying the small back unit. PITI including the mortgage insurance is 3,205. The two units I rent are at 1,340 an…
My lender walked me through FHA on a small multifamily and I came away confused about one thing. I had it in my head that since I'd only be living in one of the four units, the 3.…
Closed out a seasoned performing note portfolio in late September. Gain is roughly $610k, mostly long term. My 180-day window runs out in the third week of March, so this decision…