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Take a case worth studying: 12 acres closing at $84,000, seller carried. Terms like $16,800 down, $67,200 at 5.5 percent interest only, monthly payments of $308, balloon at year s…
First rental going on the market in a few weeks and I got ahead of myself on the marketing. Here is what it cost me. I booked an aerial package for $450 off an ad that showed nice…
Here's a case worth examining closely. An operator building an interest list of prospective private lenders for a note buying vehicle spent about four months and 11,600 dollars wi…
Take a preferred equity slot in an infill townhome deal on a portal, 25,000 dollars in, 24 month projected term. Say the pref is written as 10 percent per annum on unreturned capi…
I have a rental closing in a few weeks and I was not planning to touch wholesaling at all, but a guy in a local meetup group said the high-end tier was wide open and nobody was ma…
Our county rewrote its ADU rules last spring and the new text is 26 pages. I read it because I was curious, and then I made a two page plain summary: what sizes are allowed by lot…
Sometimes the thing that moves a service business owner's balance sheet isn't the business, it's solving a parking problem badly enough that buying dirt becomes the answer. Take a…
Consider an investor who moves slowly on purpose, so paying a service to speed up the front end of deal flow can seem like the one place spending money makes sense. It often doesn…
Finished this one last spring, so I've had time to be calm about it. Bought a 1963 ranch, 1,450 square feet, 246k, 3.5 percent down. Plan was to live in it 12 to 14 months, fix it…
First JV I did was 50/50 and I earned exactly half. I brought a signed contract and nothing else, and my partner did the buyer work, the title chasing, the extension negotiation,…
A common mistake on a cosmetic flip is writing the renovation scope off general research rather than from what actually sells the house. An operator who goes over budget on a firs…
A seven-lot subdivision on 31 acres with a new 1,100-foot gravel road to county standard is a case worth walking through in detail, because the compounding cost is easy to underes…
First deal, and I want to write it down while the numbers are still exact. 8,400 square foot single tenant retail box, auto parts style user, secondary market in the upper midwest…
First one done. 7,200 sf end unit in a 1990s light industrial condo park, 16 foot clear, one dock and one grade door, small office up front. $520,000, so $72/sf, in a park where t…
This is a small one. $25k into an eight tenant office and flex building, roughly 34,000 sf, single story, in a suburb where a lot of the tenants are contractors and small medical.…
I ran lifestyle and activity programming for a 240-unit active adult community under a two-year service agreement. Fitness classes, resident clubs support, event calendar, three s…
I mostly do long holds and land, so this was outside my lane and it shows. I ended up with two contracts I didn't want. Infill lots, one 1.1 acre and one 0.6, in a growing small c…
I've got parcels in a rural county where the drone quotes were running $600 to $700 each because the pilot has an hour and forty minutes of drive each way. Three separate bookings…
Still not buying anything. Reading. But something clicked and I want to check whether I've actually got it or just think I have. The thing I kept getting stuck on was why anyone w…
I spent years running renovation crews, so I thought the one edge I had as a lender was reading a scope. That is exactly the thing that cost me. Deal was a 1930s four bed in a sol…
One for every strategy in the guide. Each has its own discussion, live deals, outcomes and polls.
