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DiscussionSyndications: LP (Capital Provider)

Every deal I've been shown came from an Instagram ad. Where do the other ones come from?

I'm on three sponsor email lists and all three found me through paid ads. Someone in another thread said the better deals never get advertised at all because of a rule about needi…

7NnataliehsuSO1BPRO106 replies

WinSyndications: LP (Capital Provider)

First LP check ever, $25k, first distribution just landed

Wired $25k into a small industrial deal in March. Four tenants, 41,000 square feet, a sponsor who does about one of these a year in a market I know because I grew up two towns ove…

raj_mehta14CapitalPRO1312 replies

DiscussionLease Options (Rent-to-Own)

$1,650 rent with $300 credited. Is that credit real money or am I just paying above market for it?

Looking at a listing that's advertised as rent-to-own. House is priced at $240,000 with a three-year option, rent is $1,650, and $300 of each month's rent is credited toward the p…

tylerbrooks9PassivePRO414 replies

LossLease Options (Rent-to-Own)

My tenant-buyer never got close to a loan in thirty months

Posting this as the beginner version because I was a beginner at it, even though I already had six units at the time. The house: 3 bed 1 bath, 1,100 square feet, older neighborhoo…

11Rrenee_dubois Get yours13 replies

Story

He drew the whole strategy on a napkin, then crossed out the last step

I went to a coffee thing where people talk about investing, mostly to listen. A man across the table asked what I was reading about and I said the buy, rehab, rent, refinance, rep…

22Kkevin_lombardPG1BPRO1710 replies

PollOpportunity Zone Investing (Passive Angle)

The only exit language in this fund document is sponsor discretion

Went through four QOF documents this month with one thing in mind. The incentive rewards holding, and now that the program is permanent the sponsors have stopped writing hard end…

karen_whitfieldPG4APRO70 replies

WinOff-Market Deal Sourcing

900 letters, $1,140, one contract

Numbers first, because that's the only part that transfers. Pull was absentee owners, 15 years or more of tenure, estimated equity above 60 percent, single family, no listing hist…

aliyah_bAU2APRO91 reply

PollMicro-Wholesaler Networks

$95 a month in dues against 20% of the fee, and I ran both

Two networks in my area, same size, roughly the same buyer coverage, opposite pricing. The first charges $95 a month flat. Access to the shared buyer list, the group chat, a month…

aliyah_bAU2APRO90 replies

DiscussionLead Generation Platforms (Building)

What does the data stack actually cost per month if I want to feed a seller lead product?

Long holds and land are my thing, so I've never had to care where leads come from, they came from letters I wrote myself. But I've been asked to help someone price out the back en…

karen_whitfieldPG4APRO7Answered7 replies

Happening NowLead Generation Platforms (Building)

Sold my overflow leads to two guys who now want a login

I run search ads in one metro for the usual "sell my house fast" terms. Last month: $2,400 spent, 31 form fills, 9 people who actually picked up and talked, 1 under contract. That…

carlos_nunezActiveAnswered6 replies

PollWholesaling

$13,000 average fee, $414,000 median price. Which number should a new operator actually plan around?

Costing out a first deal and I keep hitting a mismatch between the two headline figures everyone cites. The 2025 Real Estate Bees survey of over a thousand wholesalers put the nat…

aliyah_bAU2APRO96 replies

LossSeller Financing (As Seller)

Carried a 62k note with no amortization schedule, then lost the payoff argument

Sold a small two bedroom house I'd owned outright. 62,000 note, 8%, twenty year amortization with a ten year balloon, payment worked out to about 519 and we rounded it to 520. Att…

10Rryanmck27SC2C15 replies

LossTransactional Funding

Lost 4,250 on a double close that never closed. The seasoning rule was in writing.

Three bed ranch in a working class suburb, contract at 118,000, end buyer signed at 139,500. Spread 21,500 and I had it under contract for 21 days. End buyer was using a DSCR lend…

aliyah_bAU2APRO90 replies

PollForeclosure / REO Investing

Two people told me never bid at an auction without all cash, a third said that's outdated advice

I've been sitting on the sidelines reading county notices for about five months. Everything I read about the auction stage says cash or certified funds, sometimes same day, someti…

ehernandez74PO2BPRO77 replies

Happening NowStudent Housing

6.3% going-in on a 220 bed at a flagship. Where's the catch?

Career changer, so treat my numbers as suspect and tell me where. A sponsor I've been tracking sent an LP deck on a 220 bed purpose-built property, four years old, walking distanc…

bmoreno23AB1BAnswered28 replies

DiscussionStudent Housing

How do you actually screen a campus before you screen a deal

Sitting on capital and trying to build a filter for which campuses are investable at all, before I look at a single building. I have enrollment history, admit rates and net tuitio…

25Sstephen_ok9CO2CPRO4Answered3 replies

WinNote Buying (Non-Performing)

Payoff at $88k on a note I bought for $52k, with a tax certificate almost eating it

Closing this one out at month 11 because the payoff funded last week and I want the numbers down while they're accurate. The file. 2004 origination, note rate 5.25%, unpaid balanc…

dpatel_reCS4A2 replies

LossTax Lien / Tax Deed Investing

Four certificates expired on me because I never diaried the deadline to start foreclosure

Small portfolio, 46 certificates across three counties at the peak, and I found the ceiling in the least interesting way possible. In my state a tax certificate has a life. If the…

29Bbrandonlee36Passive11 replies

PollTransactional Funding

Is six-hour lending something a small pot of idle cash can actually do?

Two land parcels closed within a month of each other and left me sitting on cash I don't want to deploy into another hold yet. Somebody in a local group mentioned transactional fu…

18Bbrandonlee36Passive5 replies

Happening NowGap Funding / Bridge Lending

9% in a bridge fund or 13% plus two points on one second. Probably picking wrong.

I have 60,000 that has been sitting in a savings account doing very little and I have spent two months looking at exactly two options. I want the version that works, so I'm puttin…

tylerbrooks9PassivePRO417 replies

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