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I ended up with a 1950s farmhouse on nine acres and it needs everything: roof, panel upgrade, two bathrooms gutted, new well pump. Two different people gave me two different answe…
I've been putting small amounts into other people's deals and mostly staying passive, and now a general contractor I met through one of those deals wants working capital from me d…
I sat in on a call because a friend from my land group wanted a second set of ears. He owns a piece of a small industrial park and the senior loan was coming due. The new lender w…
Two years ago I bought a $215,000 three bed in a decent suburb inside a traditional SDIRA. $112,000 IRA cash down, $103,000 non-recourse at 7.9 percent on a 25 year amortization w…
I want income that doesn't turn into a second job, and this strategy looks like the version of that I can actually qualify for. What I can't settle is the pace. The fast version:…
I spent a weekend trying to verify a 60-name buyer list a dispo operator sent me as part of his pitch for capital, and the exercise mostly taught me how weak the standard evidence…
Small one but it cost real money and I haven't seen anyone describe this failure mode, so here it is. I sold a rental in early 2024 and had a gain of about $50k. I took my time, w…
An agent I know offered me $350 a file to run her contract-to-close work. She has maybe four or five deals a month. I said yes before working out whether $350 is normal or whether…
I've been coordinating files part time for two agents at a flat $425 per closed file, mostly resale with financing, average 34 days contract to close. That number works because th…
I've spent so long in analysis mode that I've started analyzing the software instead of the houses, which I recognize is worse. The subscription apps do address logging, owner loo…
Worth writing down because everything I'd read about this strategy assumes you get to the closing. A seller was breaking up a small tape and I bid on three files out of it. To mov…
Every time I look at buying, I end up stuck on the same question, and the pull toward it keeps coming even with a small crew to run on the service side. There are three doors into…
This is the question I would have kept to myself in a room full of people, so here it is. Everything I read about auctions says you buy as-is, sight unseen, no inspection. Fine. B…
Total cost was three weekends and about $18 of gas. My state posts survey and complaint inspection results for licensed care homes online. I pulled everything for the 14 licensed…
I'm working through licensing on the service side and looking for something to build around. Three separate conversations in the last month with people buying liens at volume ende…
Ran into this twice in the last month and I still don't have a settled position. Setup: my name goes on the purchase contract, I found the seller, my partner is bringing the buyer…
I've got a brokerage account open and about six months of savings I want to put toward real estate exposure without buying a building. The two paths I keep circling are a broad RE…
Studying for my license now and most of the material is about representing buyers and sellers. Nothing in it touches REITs, which made me wonder whether buying them for my own acc…
I've now been through two brokerages' buyer representation forms, line by line, and there's language in both that deserves a plain reading. Three things I want stated plainly rath…
Closed on 40 acres of mostly wooded ground with road frontage, 240k, in a county two hours from where I live. Compensation structure: flat 6,500 to my broker, agreed in writing be…