A broker sent me a pad site listing, 0.9 acres in front of a grocery anchor, asking $410k, zoned for retail. His email said "ideal for an owner-user or small developer." Every art…
An investor I know through my exam prep group asked me to bring my contacts to his deals. His offer is 30% of whatever assignment fee he collects, and he says I never touch the co…
I'm stuck on the front end of this. I opened the screener, typed REIT, and got both single companies and funds that hold dozens of them. Someone told me the ETF is the only sensib…
Offering is $50k minimum, all cash equity, no debt. Sponsor buys 40 acres of raw ground and pursues entitlement for roughly 180 units, then sells the entitled parcel to a homebuil…
Working out what the first deal actually costs and this keeps coming up. The plan is I find the seller, sign the contract, and an experienced wholesaler with the buyers does dispo…
I own a couple of small buildings and I've started looking at a single-family house down the street that has a finished basement with its own entrance, a kitchenette and a full ba…
Small towns, houses in the $70k to $110k range, mostly owners who inherited a place and don't want to fix it up for a sale. When I bring up rent-to-own the reaction is usually pos…
I've been looking at land and holding patterns mostly, and crowdfunding came up as a way to park capital while I wait. What I can't sort out is that some platforms take $10 or $50…
Dated house, mid seventies, and the plan was paint, flooring, fixtures, light kitchen refresh. Nothing behind a wall. Then the electrician I brought in for can lights told me the…
I'm building a list of strategies and trying to figure out which ones I can actually touch versus which ones are spectator sports for me. Development keeps showing up as "most cap…
I manage 140 units for a sponsor who has four syndications, and he asked if my team would take over the quarterly investor updates and answering LP emails. He'd pay a flat monthly…
60-space surface lot, mid-size downtown, one block from a hospital employee entrance. Trailing gross is about $19,000 a month, so $228k a year, roughly 60/40 monthly contracts to…
Third owner is signing and I still don't have a consistent way of getting paid. My first two are set up with the Airbnb co-host payout split, so my percentage lands in my account…
I run small multifamily and I'm underwriting a house I'd convert to six rooms. Gross at 850 per room is 5,100 a month. I've got utilities all-in at 480, internet 90, cleaning of c…
The chapter says the established practice is leading with empathy and positioning yourself as a resource, and I keep bouncing off that sentence. I'm mostly land and long holds so…
An agent I've been talking to says she'll send me two listings a month if I can turn photos around in 24 hours. Before I say yes I want to know what running this actually costs ev…
Looking at a small content shop as a bolt-on. 18 retainer clients, blended $1,400 a month, $302k trailing revenue, owner draw $95k, two contract editors doing the edit volume. Sel…
I bought a drone for the analysis-stage version of me who was going to photograph land I was thinking about buying. Now an agent I know says her seller would love an aerial of the…
Trying to price out the closing side before I bring a wrap idea to a seller I know. Assume a 300k sale, 240k underlying at around 4, wrap note in the 270k range at 7. What I want…
Working out my service offer while I finish getting licensed. Every systems consultant I've looked at prices one of two ways. Either a flat build, call it 3,000 to 8,000, hand ove…