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Take a surface lot, 64 spaces, three blocks from a hospital campus and a transit stop, asking 940k. Underwriting off actual collections rather than a seller's projection gets to r…
Take an investor closing nine files in a year: 5 assignments, 2 double closes with transactional funding, 2 straight retail resales of finished flips. Average time from contract t…
Most of what I buy is raw acreage, cash, no appraisal and no loan. The deadline list that a coordinator would normally run against is largely the lender's, and there isn't one. Wh…
Two units in a beach market with a permit cap, same owner, both already registered. He's had a co-host who quit in September and he's trying to close the gap before spring. What I…
Owner of a lake cabin about 40 minutes from me wants me to run it. 18% of what the guest pays, he keeps paying the cleaner and the linen service directly. He told me his policy is…
Connecticut's Public Act 25-168, effective July 1 2026, sets a registration requirement and a 90 day closing cap that are mechanical enough to plan around. The three day seller ca…
Take a case of five lots coming off 41 acres, preliminary approval in hand, plat set to record in the spring. Access is off existing county frontage, so there's no road to build,…
When bringing on a transaction coordinator for the first time, a common intake question is whether the coordinator should be introduced to the client as part of the team, with dir…
Consider an investor with a gain recognized in March and a 180 day window landing squarely in the interim period everyone is discussing. Two ways to play it, and reasonable people…
Third spec on the same plan, 1,850 square feet, entry level neighborhood where clean resales trade 372 to 388. Lot is paid for, permit is in hand, I break ground in three weeks an…
Consider a mixed-use property, 11 apartments over four commercial bays, roughly 5,800 square feet of ground floor, purchased with leases inherited from a prior owner who had held…
Six apartments over 2,400 sf of storefront, building went up in the 1920s, and the parcel got rezoned to a residential district decades ago. The commercial space is a legal noncon…
Flip, 1,400 square feet, seller left about half the house furnished. I got three bids. $3,400, $3,100, and a two-man crew at $2,200 who could start Monday. I took the $2,200 becau…
Coming into this from nothing, no real estate background at all. I've got a truck lined up and one property manager willing to try me on turnover cleans. Every video I watch is so…
Put $30k into an office deal through an online platform in my second year of doing anything at all. 110,000 sf, two buildings, 81 percent leased at acquisition, plan was to renew…
I've been doing trim and cabinet work for a guy who flips maybe six houses a year. Last week he said if I find him anything off market he'll pay me for it, and he mentioned wantin…
A common structure in buyer-broker agreements has a blank for the buyer's fee, then a clause crediting anything the listing side offers against it. If the agreement is written at…
Take a case worth studying: a sponsor closes a 24-unit older brick walk-up in a second-ring suburb of a midwest metro, at 1.92 million, about 80k a door. Loan of 1.44 million on a…
An investor placing roughly $300,000 across LP positions over 24 months, with minimums running $25k to $50k, is typically looking at six to eight checks, and the grid produces a d…
Take a small 6 unit that comes up two blocks from a building an investor already owns. Asking 720,000, in-place NOI 41,000, so 5.7 percent before any capital goes in. It needs roo…
One for every strategy in the guide. Each has its own discussion, live deals, outcomes and polls.
