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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…
Take a stand planted in 2003 and thinned once already, on a piece of hunting or recreational land carrying a seller who isn't in a hurry. A forester walking that ground will tap t…
A cosmetic scope of paint, flooring, fixtures, and a light kitchen refresh on a mid seventies house can run into a hard decision the moment an electrician flags a panel brand that…
Take a small two bed cottage, dated but sound, 900 square feet, with a cosmetic budget of $26,000. It is common for an early phase of a project like this to run $4,200 in costs th…
Four of us were on a punch list at a 288 unit complex, three story garden style, built in 2021 out in a Sun Belt suburb where there were two more cranes visible from the parking l…
A brokerage I quote for asked whether I do generated staging, and when I said I do standard virtual staging with photographed furniture composited in, they asked what the differen…
A hand-painted yard sign reading RENT TO OWN, NO BANK NEEDED, with a phone number, is a common enough sight that it's worth walking through what's actually on the other end of tha…
Take a management company that runs stabilized buildings and gets asked to take on a lease-up. Say 180 units across three buildings with phased certificates of occupancy over abou…
Ground-up apartment development is often labeled the most capital intensive of the 132 real estate strategies, and the reputation is largely earned. A construction lender commonly…
Consider a property manager overseeing units for a sponsor running multiple syndications, asked to take over quarterly investor updates and LP email responses for a flat monthly f…
First real private deal I did. $75,000 into a value-add multifamily fund in 2021, 216 units across two properties in a sunbelt secondary market. What sold me was the investor rela…
Here is a live scenario worth working through. An investor is under contract on a 6.2 acre infill parcel at $340,000 in a growth path suburb. The seller wants a 30 day close and w…
A 60-space surface lot, mid-size downtown, one block from a hospital employee entrance, with trailing gross around $19,000 a month, or $228k a year, roughly 60/40 monthly contract…
Consider a paved surface lot with 34 marked spaces half a block from a regional hospital's employee entrance, priced at $565,000 by a retiring owner who has held it since the nine…
Third owner is signing and I still don't have a consistent way of getting paid. My first two are set up with the Airbnb co-host payout split, so my percentage lands in my account…
Mapping out what a 20 unit co-hosting book should look like before taking a single owner tends to land on the same fork every time. Density in one submarket is the operational ans…
Two common agency models sell opposite things. One trains people through a four week program on real estate terminology and common CRMs and charges a premium for it, with the pitc…
First-time buyers ask this constantly, and the answer isn't as obvious as it seems. In a lot of states the title company also holds escrow, meaning the same outfit researches owne…
I put 400k into an open-end debt fund in late 2022. Weighted average LTV on the tape was 63, average coupon 10.4, mostly bridge and a slug of construction. Target net was 8 to 9.…
Reading through a purchase agreement I marked up last week and the inspection period language is where the whole cost question lives. On land the killers are title, not condition.…
One for every strategy in the guide. Each has its own discussion, live deals, outcomes and polls.
