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Picture 60 addresses logged and sitting untouched for two months, which is its own kind of answer about which channel feels comfortable. The choice among the standard first touche…
Consider a course built on taking raw parcels through rezoning and preliminary plat in secondary markets, 14 modules with real submittal packages redacted and a spreadsheet modeli…
A question that gets skipped right up until signing for a seat: the clock. An agency will typically offer either overlap with the client's business day, which for the VA is overni…
Take a live-in-then-rent portfolio at the point a fourth property closes and the lease on the third property starts the same month, keeping the sequence intact for another year. T…
A gap worth closing, because the origination side of this loan is well understood and the aftermath is where the confusion lives. Say someone buys with 5 percent down as an owner…
I've been buying and holding raw land on my own and a couple of people I know keep asking me to look at parcels for them. Rather than doing it for free I'm thinking about getting…
Structure was a 2,500 monthly retainer, creditable against commission at closing, non-refundable if nothing closed. Twelve month term, which I talked down to four. He pitched it a…
Spent about five months on a jobsite last year that I didn't understand until near the end. Single story, enormous, no windows, concrete everywhere. I was on the electrical crew r…
I own three parcels I intend to hold for a long time. They generate no income and they cost me property taxes, a mowing contract on one, and liability insurance. About 7,400 a yea…
Same week, two conversations, two completely different doors. The first sponsor said their offering only takes investors they already have a relationship with, so they'd put me on…
Take a 1960s ranch, 1,320 square feet, inherited free and clear, clean inspection, everything functional but dated: wall to wall carpet, wood paneling, an older bathroom, a kitche…
Run a house as an exercise. ARV that can be defended at 325,000. Cosmetic scope, paint, floors, fixtures, kitchen refresh, call it 35,000 with a little padding. The 70 percent rul…
I'm close enough to being licensed that I'm working out where the phone calls come from, and every person I ask gives me the opposite answer with total confidence. Agent referrals…
I've been researching land mostly as something to hold, and the more I read the wholesaling side the less obvious the choice gets. Assign it: no capital tied up, no property taxes…
A private lender writing residential first position notes in the $80k to $250k range, whose loan documents currently give the lender the right to select the settlement agent, is w…
Take a management book with a mix of unit sizes, where the small multifamily side is where margin tends to disappear. Ten percent of collected rent on a triplex averaging 1,200 a…
Take a buyer slowly building a number for a duplex around $300k whose whole worksheet is down payment plus a few thousand for closing. A lender mentions reserves, the buyer nods a…
Sitting on an engagement where I built the operating model for a 180-unit value-add, and the sponsor now wants my firm's name on the model tab and a one-page memo that goes into t…
A scenario that splits consultants down the middle. An investor sanity checking a small market emails four consultants and hears back from two. The first sends a booking link with…
A list building question that keeps getting dodged. Say a county produces 340 new probate cases in a full month. Matching names and addresses against the assessor turns up about 6…
One for every strategy in the guide. Each has its own discussion, live deals, outcomes and polls.
