A small real estate law firm near me needs someone to prep closing files. Two attorneys, one paralegal, they do somewhere around 40 closings a month, mostly residential purchases…
I have a lot under contract, 62k, and a builder who says he'll do a 1,900 square foot single story for cost plus 12. He wrote the number on the back of a business card, which I un…
I put a park under contract at $1.42M, 55 lots, 51 occupied, lot rent $355 against market I can support at $465. Public water and sewer at the street, everything inside the park i…
First purchase, small 3 bedroom, and I have three numbers in front of me that don't agree. The county assessor site says 218,400. Zillow says 291,000. The accepted offer is 279,00…
Freestanding discount retail box, 9,100 sf, small rural town, population about 3,400, on the state highway across from the school. Built 2011 for the tenant. Rent $73,500, so $8.0…
Five years of transaction coordination, mostly straightforward resales, 550 a file. Over the last eight months maybe a fifth of my incoming work has been wholesalers doing double…
I've got a two page JV agreement from a wholesaler who's been doing this eleven years in my market. Deal is a duplex, both sides vacant, seller inherited it and lives four states…
Three weeks into setting up a self-directed Roth and I hadn't gotten as far as who's allowed to live in the thing. Told my daughter about the plan at dinner and she asked, half jo…
I built a sheet trying to answer whether staging is worth it on the kind of house I'm about to list, and I've now spent more hours on the sheet than the decision is worth, which i…
Eight units, brick, all one and twos, I own it free and clear and have for six years. Gross scheduled rent is about 96k, NOI last year was 58k after real management and real capex…
Sitting on a JV pitch from a two person outfit that works notice-of-default lists in three counties. They want me to fund the acquisition capital and, separately, a quarter of out…
Been building this model for a month and I want to write down where it landed before I talk myself out of it. Direct path. Two existing facilities in the same secondary market, 62…
I run direct mail for two investor clients on a flat retainer, $2,800 a month each plus mail cost pass-through. The actual work is a saved county pull, a skip trace, a mail merge,…
I've spent the last two months building the thing instead of pricing it, and now three local buyers want numbers from me and I don't have a defensible one. What exists. Two part t…
I've spent six years buying and holding land and I know the zoning side of my county better than most of the agents working it. Two people have separately asked if they could list…
A flipper I've worked with twice wants to bring his GC into the deal directly on the next three houses. Structure he's proposing is that I fund purchase and rehab, the GC takes a…
Sponsor I've co-invested with twice is recapitalizing a 190 unit garden complex and asked if I'd take the pref piece. My money is usually in land and long holds, so this is new te…
Someone sent me their standard JV agreement for a dispo split and asked what I thought. I don't do these deals, I just read paperwork, and one clause is doing something odd. The s…
I have about 400k sitting in short term paper that I want moved into something secured by the end of the year. Tax liens keep coming back on my list because the return is set by s…
I've got two small buildings, 11 units total, and 8 of them will turn over the next 14 months as leases roll. These are consistent turns: paint, LVP, one bath refresh, roughly $9,…