I'm looking at a small rental off one of these deal marketplaces. Listed at $142,000 and then further down there's a line saying a $10,000 buyer premium is due at closing, payable…
Long holds and land are my thing, so I've never had to care where leads come from, they came from letters I wrote myself. But I've been asked to help someone price out the back en…
I run search ads in one metro for the usual "sell my house fast" terms. Last month: $2,400 spent, 31 form fills, 9 people who actually picked up and talked, 1 under contract. That…
My agency spent three months building out my renovation pipeline inside their own stack. Draw requests, lien waiver chasing, subcontractor check-ins, all of it running on their au…
I'm buying a small single-family rental, nothing complicated, seller is a retiring landlord and the contract is the standard state association form with two handwritten addenda ab…
I'm working two houses this month in a county of about 12,000 people, both listed in the low $90s. 2.5% on one of them is $2,375 and the agent I actually want to work with has a $…
Small team, we do turnover and light rehab coordination for a handful of owners. Started posting before and after work about two years ago and it brought in real business, so last…
I don't have a deal of my own yet. What I've been doing instead is helping a wholesaler I met at a local meetup with his dispo for free, because I wanted to see the buyer side bef…
I've been talking to two acquisition people who both said the same thing: they hate the selling half and would pay someone to handle it. My side of it would be taking their signed…
I'm getting a house I've held a long time ready to list, and the two proposals I have in hand are structured completely differently. First one: 1,100 design and install, 850 a mon…
First deal with a TC involved and I got confused at the closing statement stage. My agent's coordinator charges $425. On the estimate it showed up as a line item against me as the…
I've got a lender contact, three brokers I talk to, and about thirty properties I've looked at and passed on over the last year. All of it lives in notes on my phone and a spreads…
Eighteen months ago I was reading recorder indexes by hand because I wanted to see filings before they showed up anywhere else. It took an hour every morning and I was doing it fo…
I come from the trades so I know houses, I don't know this business. Got a quote sheet from an inspector for a friend's purchase: $450 base, $150 radon, $175 sewer scope, $125 for…
1926 bungalow, 2 bed 1 bath, 168k, my first rental and I've been reading about screening for a year while apparently not reading enough about inspections. Inspection was 475 and t…
A guy I know wholesales and asked if I'd run his Facebook ads. He'd pay me $500 a month and put $1,500 on the card for spend. I've built landing pages before and I can read a dash…
I lend short term against renovation projects, small book, mostly repeat borrowers who came through two brokers. The brokers were costing me a point on origination and, more annoy…
I do underwriting for other people and I've been asked to look at prospecting vendors for the first time, which is a different shape of problem than a rent roll. The two vendors b…
2.4 acre lot in a first ring suburb, I've been holding it four years waiting on a sewer extension. Somebody has been using the back of it as a dump. Last count from my walk: 41 ti…
I'm looking at putting working capital into a trash-out and preservation crew and the shape of the risk is unfamiliar to me, so I'd like the holes poked in it. Numbers as presente…