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I've been circling two people for a paid scope on a 12 unit I'm underwriting, and they're opposites. The first has operated around 300 units over fifteen years, mostly older brick…
I own land and I hold it, that's my whole thing, so I'm the wrong person to be in the middle of this story. My neighbor's son buys beat up houses, fixes them, rents them, then bor…
The screener said 9.4% and that was the entire reason I bought it. I had $12,000 sitting in a taxable brokerage account after a car sale fell through, and I wanted the money doing…
A screener search for REIT returns both individual companies and funds that hold dozens of them, with no obvious signal about which is the right starting point. For a first purcha…
Buying a small performing first-position note inside a self-directed Roth IRA is a useful way to see how paper investing inside a retirement account actually works mechanically, s…
Take a common equity position in a ground up multifamily deal on a portal. 48 units, wood frame over podium parking, total capitalization $11.2M. Hard costs come in at $165 a squa…
Say an offering has a $50k minimum, all cash equity, no debt. The sponsor buys 40 acres of raw ground and pursues entitlement for roughly 180 units, then sells the entitled parcel…
Consider an investor who bought into a public non-traded REIT in 2018 through an advisor, 60k, Class A shares, diversified, heavy on suburban office and grocery-anchored retail wi…
Put four lease option packages side by side and the assignment clause is where they diverge hardest. Two say the option is freely assignable by the optionee. One says assignable w…
Working out what the first deal actually costs and this keeps coming up. The plan is I find the seller, sign the contract, and an experienced wholesaler with the buyers does dispo…
Here is a situation a newer wholesaler runs into constantly, and the confusing part is smaller than the split. Take a 1960s 3/2 in a working class suburb, ARV somewhere around 215…
Take a case worth studying in real estate debt funds. An investor with $60k to place looks at four residential bridge debt funds. Two send loan-level tapes on request, one sends a…
Consider a single-family house with a finished basement that has its own entrance, a kitchenette, and a full bath. A listing might call that an ADU, but a contractor could correct…
An owner holding two single family rentals in the same city for years, doing nothing to either, and then facing a new ordinance that removes the parking requirement for accessory…
In smaller markets, with houses in the $70k to $110k range and sellers who inherited a property and don't want to invest in fixing it up for a sale, the initial reaction to a rent…
Here is a sandwich lease option worth working through as a scenario, because the risk that gets missed is the one sitting between the two leases. Say the head lease was signed six…
Take two proposals for the same scope, roughly 30 hours a week of admin and light lead follow-up. One is hourly at a rate that only bills time logged, with screenshots and an acti…
Take a duplex, both sides rented, tired but no structural problems. Contract price 129,000 from a landlord ready to be done, end buyer at 152,000. That 23,000 spread can feel like…
First rental is closing in a few weeks and it comes with a permitted basement apartment, separate entrance off the side yard, own kitchen, shared laundry in the mechanical room. I…
Signed up on two platforms last week. One took me straight in, 10 dollar minimum on a pooled fund. The other put a form in front of me asking me to certify income over 200k or a n…
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