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PollMid-Term Rentals (30-90 Days)

What actually fills a 30 day unit, the platforms or the phone calls

Two of the owners we work with are moving units to furnished 30 day minimums, and since my small service team handles those turnovers, I've spent the last few weeks trying to figu…

angela_burkeServicePRO1210 replies

PollOpportunity Zone Investing

If the interim slowdown is real, is the right move to be the one buying in 2026?

The dead zone worry that keeps coming up is that investors sit on their hands through 2026 because the enhanced benefits attach to the new zones starting January 2027. Advocates h…

derekj19SB1B0 replies

LossVirtual Assistant Agency

My VA built a 1,900 record mail list. A third of it was garbage.

Construction is my background, marketing is not, so when I decided to send mail on absentee owners in two counties I hired a VA through an agency at $8.50/hr to build the list. Te…

gregpowell66AG4BPRO1211 replies

Happening NowGap Funding / Bridge Lending

What would I be holding if a contractor I trust wants 25,000 for four months?

A guy who has framed and finished work on two houses for people I know asked me for 25,000 to finish a flip. He offered 10% and said four months. What I have from him, verbally: p…

26Hhannah_west29 Get yours6 replies

DiscussionGap Funding / Bridge Lending

Payment blockage clause with no cap on consecutive periods

Reading a subordination agreement a senior sent over for a gap piece and two clauses are doing a lot of work. One: the senior may deliver a payment blockage notice on any default…

wendy_park48CapitalPRO150 replies

DiscussionSelf-Directed IRA (Real Estate)

Can I buy the rental from my own LLC and let the IRA hold it

I own a small rental through an LLC I control. The idea I had was to sell it to my IRA at an appraised price so the future rent grows tax-deferred. Cash changes hands at market va…

carlos_nunezActiveAnswered2 replies

Happening NowSelf-Directed IRA (Real Estate)

Client wants to put an IRA into a property I'd be the listing agent on

Getting my license this year and a family friend asked me to help him buy a duplex inside his self-directed Roth. He's serious, has about $340k in the account, and wants to close…

28Rryanmck27SC2CAnswered4 replies

Happening NowSeller Financing (Capital Provider)

Structuring the note I'm about to carry so it's still worth something if I ever sell it

I'm the seller on a 3 bed 1 bath in a working class pocket of a mid size midwest market. Appraised style value around 240k, contract at 240k. Buyer is self employed, two years of…

39Kkevin_lombardPG1BPRO17Answered24 replies

DiscussionSeller Financing (Capital Provider)

Doc prep, servicer, RMLO. What am I paying to create a note I plan to hold?

I got a sample note-and-deed-of-trust package from a title company and read the whole thing. There are blanks for the late charge, the grace period, the default rate, and the ball…

wendy_park48CapitalPRO15Answered8 replies

Story

Called a listing agent about land I will never sell. She stayed two hours.

I own a handful of raw parcels and I hold them a long time. One of them borders a subdivision that's been creeping toward it for about six years, and I wanted a read on what the g…

nicole_adeyemiPassivePRO1422 replies

PollMortgage REITs (mREITs)

Do I turn dividend reinvestment on, or let the mREIT payments pile up as cash

I opened a small position in a mortgage REIT last month, mostly to learn how the income actually behaves before I put anything meaningful in. The brokerage is now asking me a yes…

ehernandez74PO2BPRO723 replies

PollMultifamily Property Management

What does "on-site" mean at 60 units? I answered badly.

Someone I know is buying into a 60-unit building and asked me whether it needs on-site staff. I said probably, then spent the drive home realizing I couldn't defend it. So, plainl…

angela_burkeServicePRO120 replies

PollRaising Capital / Investor Relations

Base case 16.4, downside 9.1. Showing both cost me an investor and got me two better ones

On the last deal I put a base case and a downside side by side on the same page of the investor memo. Base was a 16.4 net IRR to LP with 2 percent rent growth and a 25 basis point…

dpatel_reCS4A0 replies

LossSyndications: GP / Sponsor

Raised $310k of a $640k need. Lost the earnest money and the setup costs.

Small town, roughly 6,200 people, one large regional employer plus a hospital. 22 units in two buildings, $1.15M, in-place rents about 22 percent under what the newer product acro…

8Llaurenkim53Passive2 replies

LossResidential Property Management

The assigned manager agreement renewed on the seller's anniversary, missed by nine days

Six small buildings, 34 doors, midsize southeast market, closed in October. The management agreement came with the buildings and I took it by assignment at closing instead of term…

wendy_park48CapitalPRO1513 replies

Story

The pilot sat in my truck for forty minutes waiting on an approval that never came

I'm still in the researching phase on land, mostly holding patterns and figuring out what I'd actually do with a tract, but I wanted marketing-grade aerial on a 60 acre piece I wa…

diane_kowalskiPassivePRO142 replies

PollReal Estate Agent (Buyer's Agent)

When do you make the seller-side confirm they'll cover your agent, before the tour or inside the offer

Since the offers of compensation came off the MLS, the information did not disappear, it moved. Listing agents post it on brokerage sites, some MLSs run a separate non-public fiel…

luis_carrera Get yoursAnswered2 replies

DiscussionReal Estate Agent (Buyer's Agent)

Seller pays my agent, but does that use up my concession allowance?

Looking at this from the loan side rather than as a buyer. If the seller agrees to cover the buyer agent fee as a credit in the contract, that credit is money moving from seller t…

sonia_alvarez Get yoursPRO6Answered3 replies

PollSmall Multifamily (2-4 Units)

Same finish spec in every unit, or match the finish to what each unit can rent for?

I've turned eleven units across small buildings in the last three years and I still argue with myself about this one. The standardized version: one paint, one floor, one cabinet d…

omar_haddadActivePRO1712 replies

LossMortgage Brokerage

Five weeks trying to find anyone to write a loan on an $84,000 house

I had a small house under contract at $84,000 in a working town about an hour out. Cheap, tenanted, nothing exciting. I thought the financing would be the easy part because the nu…

derekj19SB1B3 replies

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