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Situation as it stands today. Two wholesalers in the same metro, both doing about three contracts a month each, so call it six a month coming to me. Their reported average gross s…
A common point of confusion on deal marketplaces. A small rental is listed at $142,000, and further down there's a line saying a $10,000 buyer premium is due at closing, payable t…
Comparing two loan requests of similar size, a 96 lot manufactured housing community with tenant-owned homes and lot rent well under the local apartment comp against a 40 unit apa…
Take a passive LP position in a two-building powered shell campus in a secondary Sun Belt market, 24 MW of contracted utility capacity across both buildings. Building A, 12 MW, le…
A case worth walking through in JV wholesaling. A contract at 132k on a 1980s 3/2 in a strong selling subdivision, where the seller had relocated for work and the tenant had stopp…
For an investor whose existing holdings are all long lease residential, hotel exposure is appealing as a way to add a travel demand driver that does not move with the rest of the…
I've been reading the same argument in two directions for weeks and I want to hear it from people who've actually done it. The case for using a self-directed IRA: syndications tak…
For a first REIT allocation, the choice usually comes down to a broad index approach against a tilt toward sectors with tightening supply. The tilt argument rests on the idea that…
An investor I met through a contractor I know sent me six addresses and asked me to go look at each one, take exterior photos, note whether it looks occupied, and tell him if ther…
I do a lot of due diligence on passive positions and I've started noticing distressed houses near the ones I look at. A friend who flips said I should just send them over and he'd…
I'm on three sponsor email lists and all three found me through paid ads. Someone in another thread said the better deals never get advertised at all because of a rule about needi…
Take a case worth studying: an LP wires $25k into a small industrial deal, four tenants, 41,000 square feet, a sponsor doing about one of these a year in a market he knows well, 8…
Take a listing advertised as rent-to-own. The house is priced at $240,000 with a three-year option, rent is $1,650, and $300 of each month's rent is credited toward the purchase.…
A useful case for anyone new to lease options, because the mistakes in it are the beginner mistakes even when the seller already owns several units. The house: 3 bed 1 bath, 1,100…
I went to a coffee thing where people talk about investing, mostly to listen. A man across the table asked what I was reading about and I said the buy, rehab, rent, refinance, rep…
Went through four QOF documents this month with one thing in mind. The incentive rewards holding, and now that the program is permanent the sponsors have stopped writing hard end…
Two networks in my area, same size, roughly the same buyer coverage, opposite pricing. The first charges $95 a month flat. Access to the shared buyer list, the group chat, a month…
Numbers first, because that's the only part that transfers. Pull was absentee owners, 15 years or more of tenure, estimated equity above 60 percent, single family, no listing hist…
Long holds and land are my thing, so I've never had to care where leads come from, they came from letters I wrote myself. But I've been asked to help someone price out the back en…
Here is a scenario worth working through, because it shows up for almost everyone who runs paid search long enough. An operator runs search ads in one metro for the usual sell my…
One for every strategy in the guide. Each has its own discussion, live deals, outcomes and polls.
