On a first gut, do you hire a GC or run the subs yourself
I've done it both ways and both hurt, so I want to see how this room splits. The GC version: you pay a markup, usually 15 to 25 percent on top of the subs, sometimes more on a gut…
one click, then see the split
I've done it both ways and both hurt, so I want to see how this room splits. The GC version: you pay a markup, usually 15 to 25 percent on top of the subs, sometimes more on a gut…
The ingestion side of my seller lead platform is held together with a scheduled scraper, a Zapier chain, an Airtable base and two Google Sheets doing work no sheet should do. It h…
I've been reading through public filings for the listed data center owners because I wanted to understand what a passive holder actually pays out of the rent before anything reach…
Two offerings arriving in the same week can look close to identical on paper and still price very differently. Both are 1990s vintage, both leased by the bed, both roughly 100 bed…
Fund summaries for data center holdings often quote a distribution figure that includes a line called power and infrastructure reimbursement, which is typically the tenant paying…
Five month placement in a three bedroom near a medical campus ended in October with nothing booked behind it. The unit sat seven weeks furnished before the next inquiry, and for s…
A theme that shows up in nearly every wraparound mortgage failure story is the same. The buyer stops paying, and the seller still owes the underlying lender, on time, every month,…
I'm doing scope pricing for a group buying a 288 unit 1996-vintage property in a Sun Belt submarket where deliveries are dropping off hard after 2026. Two scopes on the table and…
Take an LP slice in a 9 MW single-tenant data center in a secondary market. The lease runs twelve years with two five-year renewals at market. The power side is a seven-year block…
I've got a furnished 2 bed coming available in three weeks, 30 day minimum, mid-size market with a hospital and a decent amount of corporate traffic from two plants. My margin on…
Two brokers in the last month have come back to me with the same message, which is that my quote is no longer competitive. I have been holding at 11.5% and 2 points with a 70% cap…
Working out what passive hotel exposure should actually look like for me, and the two structures I keep landing on behave completely differently in a downturn. Structure one, own…
Two conversion theses circulate right now and they argue for the same strategy from opposite directions. One rests on basis. Secondary office is distressed, delinquency is elevate…
This is a decision worth thinking through carefully before a first live-in flip purchase, well before a specific house is even chosen. On a live-in flip the owner is the one livin…
Raw land, three parcels, no income at all. What actually moves through the accounts in a month is a property tax payment, an occasional mowing invoice, sometimes a survey or a tit…
I've been shooting turn units for a couple of small landlords and the occupied ones are where my process falls apart. One owner wants media 30 days before lease end so he can pre-…
A common fork for newcomers to assisted living real estate is landlord versus operator, and it is worth laying out both sides plainly. Option A, be the landlord. Buy or convert a…
Reading a buyer representation agreement for a first small rental and the compensation page has a line I didn't expect. If the firm ends up representing both sides, the buyer side…
I have both a traditional rollover IRA and a Roth, and enough in each that either one could buy a small single family rental with cash. The custodian doesn't care which I use. I d…
Offering documents restated since last summer, when the incentive was made permanent under P.L. 119-21, are showing looser language around winding up than the versions circulating…
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