Take a reverse wholesaling scenario: a wholesaler lines up a buyer before securing a property, then drafts the paperwork in advance rather than under time pressure. The buyer is a…
Someone with a construction background who has never had to outsource looking at a house may still end up doing exactly that when the deals landing are 600 miles away and not wort…
Sat in on a call yesterday where someone was introduced as a real estate consultant and I spent the whole hour not understanding what he was for. He didn't sell anything, he wasn'…
Consider a property with a three bed house, attached two car garage, on a 7,200 sq ft lot in a neighborhood where zoning was changed to allow accessory units on most single family…
Licensing exam is in three weeks, so this timing is comedy. I've got 142k in a self-directed traditional IRA, mostly cash after a note paid off early. Sponsor I've known for a whi…
Take an investor who nets about 90,000 dollars after closing on a small duplex sale, with two options on the table. Option one is applying it against a loan on a fourplex still he…
Take a marketplace built around an automated seller flow: a seller submits a property through a landing page, answers eight questions, gets an automated range based on comps pulle…
Take a photographer who has had to turn down four aerial requests this quarter because they only shoot ground. Say two of those agents went and hired a full package elsewhere, so…
Take a case where a landowner sells nine acres held for a while and the gain comes out to about $41k. Small money by the standards of this room. Say the tract next to it sits in a…
Closing a 3/1 in a working class suburb next week. Purchase 168k, rehab budget 52k, ARV I'm underwriting at 285k. My hard money lender does 85% of purchase and 100% of rehab, but…
Finished a full gut on a 1920s two bed bungalow for a client, $118k of work, closed out the final inspection three weeks ago. He was going to sell. Now he wants to furnish it and…
Bought a 1940s house last spring with a full basement, 7'9" ceilings, separate side entrance already there. The plan was a one bedroom basement ADU, rent it long term, keep living…
Helping on the paperwork side of a small flip and the general contractor's proposal asks for 40 percent at signing, 40 percent at what he calls substantial completion, 20 percent…
A scenario worth working through because it comes up more in commercial wholesaling than people expect. Say a wholesaler is under contract on a 9,200 square foot single tenant ret…
Take a 3 bed 1.5 bath house in a working neighborhood near a community college, where the whole house would lease around 1,650 but three rooms at 725 each brings in 2,175, which i…
Take an investor with $2.4M of eligible gain from a partnership disposition and roughly 70 days left on the 180 day deployment clock, choosing between two funds. Fund A is already…
Say a sponsor asks someone to take over the investor-facing side of the book for two apartment deals plus a storage facility, about $14m of LP equity, 180 investors on the cap tab…
An exclusive buyer's agreement can carry language like this in the compensation section: "Buyer agrees compensation is due on any acquisition of real property within the Territory…
Consider a land assignment JV where one partner is the money and the other is the work. Say the deal is 22 acres, seller is an out of state owner who inherited it, contract price…
Business reserve cash sitting past what is needed for payroll gaps sometimes gets pointed at mortgage REITs, where screener yields commonly run 11 to 14 percent against a savings…