I've got both a traditional rollover and a Roth sitting at the same custodian, and I have to pick which one funds the real estate side. The money is the same money. The wrapper is…
Working a $2.35M deal, mixed use flex with two service tenants and one vacancy, and I'm stuck on how to price my own position rather than the building. Spread as I see it is somew…
Sat through a demo of a transaction platform yesterday. Date calendar builds itself off the executed contract, disclosure packets assemble from templates, e-sign status escalates…
Reading the material on these groups twice, the way I do, and the same claim keeps coming up: a network helps members stay compliant because knowledge about state rules gets share…
Running a small shop and this argument comes up internally every time we take on someone new with a modest budget, say $1,500 to $2,500 a month all in. Search is the obvious answe…
I'm buying rural land, mostly 10 to 80 acre parcels, with a mix of seller financing and purchase options. My deal count is going up and my legal line is going up faster. Quotes I…
Running the numbers on next year's mix for a small valuation practice and the two paths don't compare cleanly, so I'll lay out both and let the room argue. Panel work through mana…
I'd like the option that actually sells without drama, and I'm stuck between two ways to spend the same $12,000 on a first parcel. Option one is cheap and remote. Something like 4…
I'm three deals into the portals now and the thing I got wrong at the start was spread. My first check was $1,000 into a single value-add multifamily deal because it looked like t…
I want income that doesn't turn into a second job, and every free video I've watched says wholesaling is how you start with nothing. Lock a house under contract, assign the contra…
Ran the arithmetic on three years of my own buy-side spend and the percentage structure looks harder to defend the bigger the deal gets. On a $180k rental, 2.5% is $4,500 and the…
I've been building the sponsor side of a small deal on paper to see whether the first one is even reachable, and the pre-close spend is the part I keep getting wrong. What I have…
Here's the argument I got into with a guy who's been doing this longer than me, and I've been chewing on it for a week. His position: the tax treatment is part of the return. If y…
Two decks landed on my desk this month from the same introduction. One is a sponsor I've watched for about three years, eleven deals, they answer email on a Sunday and their quart…
My land holdings produce no income and I'm fine with that, the whole point was appreciation and patience. So when I look at REITs I have to decide what job they're doing in the po…
Two operators I've been talking to model the same gut completely differently and I can't tell which one is actually more conservative. The first one models 150 days of carry as th…
I have room for one more note this quarter and two candidates that price to almost the same number, so the choice is really about which risk I want to hold for the next several ye…
Two office LP packages on my desk and the entire difference in outcome is a rent growth assumption I can't verify. Deal A is a prime building, 210,000 sf, 88 percent leased, in-pl…
I do trim and cabinet work and lately two of my flipper clients have started asking me to "make it show ready" after punch list, which so far has meant me borrowing my sister in l…
Trellis here on the management side, so I see the tail end of these deals more than the front end. Two of the operators I manage for argue about this constantly and I want to see…