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I mostly look at deals from the capital side and I don't usually pay for marketing, so this was new to me and I got it wrong in an ordinary way. A partner and I had a 19 acre parc…
Looking at a subdivision deal as a limited partner and the marketing budget has one line reading "aerial package, $4,500." Everything else in that budget is itemized down to sign…
Self-storage sponsors consistently lean on the word defensive: demand comes from life events, moving, divorce, downsizing, death, none of which stop in a downturn, and that story…
Take a house with an existing permitted detached ADU, 560 sf, already leased at $1,725. Asking $612k, and a deal like this can close at $571k, with the discount sitting in a docum…
A model that keeps coming up: a homeowner has the lot and the zoning but no capital and no appetite for permitting. A builder has the crew and can carry the build. The builder put…
A useful case study on land banking risk. Take 3.5 acres of scrub purchased for $28,000 cash about a mile from where a new highway interchange was supposedly planned, based on a b…
A few years out from selling a house that will list somewhere north of $3M, and the fee structure is the question I keep circling back to. On a straight percentage at 2.5%, the li…
I've been circling this business for a while without knowing which side of it I belonged on, and the first thing I actually finished was small enough that I could hold all of it i…
Been running small numbers because that's the size I can actually fund. Ten acres, buy around $38k, split into two fives, comps on 5 acre pieces in that township are maybe $28k. S…
A common sequence on a small retail box: the lender will not issue a term sheet until a Phase I is in the file, someone in a forum says those run about $2,000, and the consultant…
We've held 46 acres for nine years, row crop lease, taxes paid, no plans. It sits about a mile from a transmission line and there's a substation on the far side of the county road…
A case worth studying on the coordination side of a small acquisition run, because it is the part most buyers get right by accident. Take an investor who buys six small residentia…
Duplex bought all cash inside a traditional SDIRA back in 2019 for $186,000. Two units, $1,750 gross a month combined, taxes and insurance about $4,900 a year, self-managed by a l…
Luxury agents working through this in practice tend to land in one of three camps, and none of the three has fully settled the question yet. The percentage camp keeps charging a p…
My first rental hasn't even closed yet, so I'm asking about someone else's problem that I've been shown the spreadsheet for. A builder I know has a finished four bedroom sitting a…
Every piece I read about commercial wholesaling says the motivated sellers right now are in office and older retail. Fine, I believe there are sellers. What I can't work out is th…
Six weeks into trying to build a commercial buyer side and I have 34 names, of which maybe four have ever told me a specific box they'd fill. The rest say things like "multifamily…
Four deals in and my problem is deal flow, so I told a guy at a local meetup I'd pay $2,000 per closing for addresses in my two zip codes. He's enthusiastic. In three weeks he's s…
I've been reading for half a year, haven't done a deal, and I want to pick something I can start this month. Bird dogging keeps coming up as the free entry point because you don't…
Coming into this with no portfolio and no license, so all I have to sell is the finding. Two people I have talked to run it completely differently and both are getting paid. The f…
One for every strategy in the guide. Each has its own discussion, live deals, outcomes and polls.
