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Happening NowSelf-Storage (Passive Hold)

Storage-industrial flex condo units, trying to work out what the collateral actually is

Been reading through an offering on a flex condo project, the larger owned units with power and water aimed at people who want more than a standard storage unit. Boat and RV owner…

raj_mehta14CapitalPRO130

DiscussionSelf-Storage (Passive Hold)

Monthly cost of software plus a gate system on 200 units

I've spent most of my time on land and zoning, so the operating side of a storage facility is new territory. A vendor sent me a quote for a management platform that was priced per…

nicole_adeyemiPassivePRO14Answered2

WinDispo-Only / Marketplace Model

Sold my first contract in under 48 hours after six weeks of doing nothing but calls

Following up on my earlier thread about start costs. I went with the cheap version and it took longer than the spreadsheet said. Six weeks, 140-odd calls and texts, 22 people who'…

aliyah_bAU2APRO93

PollCo-Living / Room Rentals

Furnishing a 4 room house costs $7,000 for $105 more a room

Working out what my first deal actually costs, and furniture is the line I keep rewriting. Quotes I have, buying mid range from a warehouse store and assembling myself: bed frame,…

aliyah_bAU2APRO915

DiscussionPublic REITs (Capital Deployment)

What if the gap closes from the private side instead?

Everything I read frames the REIT-to-private valuation gap as a reason to deploy into listed. My underwriting keeps producing the other resolution. Concretely: my private open-end…

dpatel_reCS4AAnswered6

Happening NowPublic REITs (Capital Deployment)

Are REITs actually cheap, or just down?

Five years into running the service business and I finally have 60k that isn't reserve money. I don't want to buy a rental, I've watched enough of my clients deal with tenants. So…

monica_tran3SF4CPRO11Answered7

WinMicro-Wholesaler Networks

First deal I closed because somebody else's buyer answered the phone

I've done four contracts on my own and every one of them took forever to move. The last two I marketed for three weeks each and ended up assigning at a lower fee than I signed up…

samantha_ruizAU4APRO59

Happening NowHotels (Capital Deployment)

The sponsor's flow-through assumption is doing all the lifting on $26k a key

Co-invest slot next to a sponsor I've done one small industrial deal with, and this is bigger and further outside what I know. Numbers as sent: Upper-midscale, 118 keys, secondary…

26Bbrandonlee36Passive15

PollListing Content / Social Media

Client asked for the raw footage and the prompt library. Where does the handoff line sit?

Retainer client of two years, video and social for a small brokerage, gave notice last month. Amicable. Then the request came in: all raw footage, the edit project files, the cont…

monica_tran3SF4CPRO111

WinBroker Owner

Didn't open my own shop. Built a team inside a flat-fee brokerage instead.

I spent most of last year convinced the answer was my own brokerage. Ran the costs, talked to three broker owners, and ended up doing something less interesting that worked better…

joe_delgado5AP4CPRO42

DiscussionTax Lien / Tax Deed Investing

Deed sale parcel with a city demolition lien and something that looks like a federal tax lien

Looking at an upcoming deed sale in a county I know the construction side of well. Parcel is a 1940s balloon-frame house, opening bid $9,400, which is four years of taxes plus fee…

gregpowell66AG4BPRO120

Happening NowTax Lien / Tax Deed Investing

Does the fund fee make sense against doing it myself with $400k?

Sitting on $400,000 earmarked for something with predictable cash behavior, and certificates keep coming back as the answer because the return is written into statute rather than…

17Sstephen_ok9CO2CPRO44

PollRetail Centers / Strip Malls

Two years of returns from a retail tenant, and no personal guarantee

My first rental is residential and closing soon, so I've spent months on screening tenants for houses. A 1,400 sf end bay in a small strip near me is for sale and the seller's lea…

paulgrant17PassivePRO71

DiscussionSubject-To Financing

Sub2 and "wrap" keep getting used for the same deal

Been talking to a seller about a house on a double lot (the lot is honestly the part I want). His agent told me the seller would "wrap" his loan to me, then in the next sentence c…

nicole_adeyemiPassivePRO14Answered4

WinSubject-To Financing

First one closed, $9k for her equity, payment $438 under market rent

Wrote this up because six months ago I couldn't have explained subject-to out loud. What it means: the seller's mortgage stays in her name, the deed comes to me, and I make the pa…

mikeoconnell7SP2APRO170

DiscussionSection 8 / Government-Assisted Housing

Can a payment standard drop after I've signed?

Trying to understand the rent side before I understand anything else. My understanding is that there's a published number per bedroom count for an area and the housing authority w…

raj_mehta14CapitalPRO13Answered6

LossSection 8 / Government-Assisted Housing

My chargeback clause lost to the tenancy addendum, and the claim died with it

I do documents before I do properties, so when a family member asked me to paper the lease on a voucher tenancy for a small single family he owns, I treated it as a drafting exerc…

7Ddmitri_v6CapitalPRO7Answered5

PollParking Lots / Garages

Repave the 120-space lot, or run the asphalt to failure while the rezoning plays out

I've got a 120-space lot on the edge of a downtown core, bought two years ago mostly for what it can become. There's a rezoning process running that could let a mid-rise happen on…

gregpowell66AG4BPRO1216

PollHome Inspection

Nine offers, three inspection structures, and the repair credits surprised me

I've been tracking my own offers for the last fourteen months because I couldn't tell whether the inspection contingency was costing me deals or saving me money. Nine offers, four…

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WinSelf-Storage (Passive Hold)

Sold a 190-unit facility I'd held eight years, here's what actually got it done

Closed last month on a small facility I bought in 2017 as a diversification off the land holdings. 190 units, about 21,000 rentable square feet, half-hour outside a mid-sized metr…

karen_whitfieldPG4APRO7Answered13

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