live deals, numbers on the table
After a long agent search, a buyer of rental property can land on two finalists and a question that is not obvious how to weigh. Agent A: eleven years, works almost entirely with…
Take a residential cleaning operation built around recurring biweekly homes and move-outs, approached by nightly rental owners wanting same-day turns, Saturday and Sunday heavy, c…
Six months of neighborhood-level research often turns up a spreadsheet full of properties, and a pattern worth noticing: every corporate furnished listing found in most metros clu…
A useful exercise: run the numbers on a 22 planted acre established vineyard block, seller asking 41,000 an acre all in for land, vines, trellis, and a shared well interest, call…
Take an investor sitting on land sale proceeds, say roughly 240k net after costs, who is not replacing the parcel this cycle because entitlement timelines in the county have gotte…
I've got two transactional funding quotes on a double close scheduled for next Thursday and I can't separate them on price, so I'm trying to separate them on what happens when it…
Two written buyer's agent proposals for the same search are worth laying side by side. Agent A offers 2.4 percent of purchase price, roughly $11,040 on a $460k target, full servic…
Take a capital provider with roughly $600k to place choosing between two term sheets on similarly sized checks with very different structures. Operator A: a 41 unit workforce apar…
A useful exercise in underwriting a small rural multifamily deal: a 10-unit building priced by the seller off a stated NOI and cap rate, with real numbers reconstructed independen…
I signed up for a free 45 minute strategy call from someone whose videos I've been watching for a few months. Then the confirmation email came with a form. It wants my credit scor…
Take a case with 180k set aside to launch a business, with a draw schedule pulling 8 to 10k a month starting in month four, running about 18 months until the business covers itsel…
Say a mastermind pitches at $12,000 a year, with monthly group calls, two in-person events, and a deal-review channel. The pitch number is that 41 percent of members close a deal…
Contract with the seller at 214k, resale to my end buyer at 252k. I built the whole thing as a double close because the spread is 38k and I did not want that number sitting on an…
For a builder delivering several detached spec homes in pairs several months apart, staging decisions are worth underwriting the same way carry cost is. A full stage of a whole ho…
A title commitment with several numbered exceptions in schedule two is completely normal, not a red flag by itself, but understanding what each exception actually means matters mo…
A common bind in tax lien investing: a certificate purchased three years ago for 2,410 on a small frame house on a third of an acre, statutory rate 12 percent, with subsequent tax…
Been going back and forth with an operator for six weeks. Small shop, three people, buys rural and recreational parcels in four counties across two states, sells most of them on i…
House hacking examples tend to cluster around two shapes, three roommates in a five bedroom, or a duplex where an owner shares a wall and a driveway with a tenant. For a first tim…
Take a 6,200 sq ft 1994 build on a golf course lot in a top submarket. Listed at 2.65M, sitting 140 days, seller is an estate. An offer worth considering sits around 2.35M, maybe…
Title commitment came back Friday on an 18 acre parcel I have under contract at 42,000. Builder buyer has verbally agreed to 68,000 and wants four lots off the road frontage. Two…
One for every strategy in the guide. Each has its own discussion, live deals, outcomes and polls.
