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I got into this sideways. A guy I know sells rural parcels on installment contracts and was tracking 14 buyers in a spreadsheet with a stack of paper checks in a drawer. I offered…
Numbers first so nobody has to ask. 14 unit brick walk-up, pre-1940, second tier midwest market, bought for 1.02m with a 700k bridge and 1.35m of LP equity from nine investors. Re…
Worth pressure testing this arithmetic on a resale, because it comes out clean and a clean answer usually means something has been left out. List price $415,000. A stager quotes $…
Consider four flips a year in a fairly narrow band, 180k to 260k, mostly 1,300 to 1,700 sq ft. Staging quotes typically land between 3,200 and 3,900 all in, so call it 14,400 a ye…
Land parcel, 68 acres, mostly wooded with about 11 acres of cleared pasture and a gravel access easement. County reassessed it and moved the value up 41 percent in one cycle, whic…
Here is the version of land investing with almost no surprises in it, worth studying as a small first split done slowly. 9.1 acres in a county about 40 minutes from a mid-size cit…
Tract is 60 acres at about $4,200 an acre, so $252k. Zoning supports 5 acre lots, twelve of them after the road takes its bite. Sold comps for 5 acre pieces within four miles are…
A useful case study in corporate and furnished housing is a three bedroom townhome near a hospital campus that runs a lot of contract specialists. Say an operator leases it from t…
Take a full first cycle on a platform-lending ladder: $46k deployed across 21 debt positions on three platforms, most in the $1.5k to $3k range with a couple at $5k. Stated rates…
In 2021 I sold a piece of inherited farmland and had a $180k long-term gain. I put the whole thing into a two-asset qualified opportunity fund, ground-up multifamily in a small me…
A ground lease on a small campground is worth flagging for anyone new to the sector, because a single clause can carry more weight than it looks like on first read. The structure:…
When structuring seller financing, the down payment size is often treated as the main protection, but it's worth separating what the cash at closing actually does from what the no…
I'm getting ready to put money into a first rental and I've spent the last month just making phone calls. Two credit unions, a regional bank, and one online lender that does DSCR…
Here is a situation that comes up often enough to be worth working through as a group. Take a two-bed unit in a small portfolio where the payment standard for that bedroom size is…
Here is a scenario worth working through for anyone on the service side of voucher housing. A small landlord fails her voucher inspection twice on the same unit. First visit it is…
The Redfin analysis showing buyer-agent commissions on luxury homes coming down slightly after the new rules, while commissions on cheaper homes held or rose, is worth sitting wit…
A useful case for anyone drowning in list size. Start with a broad pull, everything absentee in two zip codes with 50 percent plus equity, which can easily run into the thousands…
Here is an operations case that moves more money than many acquisitions do. Take six units, four of them running furnished for mid-term and corporate stays. The problem: every uni…
Two owners I did renovation work for want me running their units next season, and both drafts I've been sent handle pricing completely differently. One says I set rates at my disc…
Consider a non performing note bought at $52k against a $114k unpaid balance, with the house valued around $167k as-is on a trusted exterior BPO. Vacant, secured, being checked mo…
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