$50k nonrefundable after 15 days. Is that the deal or the trap?
12 unit brick walk-up, one market, one broker, seller is an estate. LOI accepted at $1.06m. Their attorney sent back a draft PSA with a 15 day inspection period and $50k earnest t…
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12 unit brick walk-up, one market, one broker, seller is an estate. LOI accepted at $1.06m. Their attorney sent back a draft PSA with a 15 day inspection period and $50k earnest t…
I'm preparing rather than doing, and the piece I keep circling is who touches the money. In a wrap the buyer pays me, I pay the underlying lender, and I keep the difference. That'…
I've been reading acquisition decks for management companies because the paper side of consolidation interests me, and the same slide keeps appearing in different fonts. Current p…
I've held 22 acres on the edge of a growing metro for eleven years. Taxes are low, I mow it twice a year, and the plan was always to wait. A developer approached me about an activ…
The 2025 law that made the incentive permanent also put new reporting obligations on qualified opportunity funds, and I've been trying to work out what that does to the sponsor un…
Nine units, three of them under a manager I brought on last year for the ones furthest from me. Her written criteria say gross income at 3x monthly rent, no evictions in seven yea…
Everywhere I look, first deal advice says find an experienced wholesaler and give up half. Half of a 12k fee is 6k, which sounds fine when the alternative is zero. What I can't te…
I got onto two sponsor lists in the same week and they handled me in completely opposite ways. The first sent a scheduling link within a day and wanted 30 minutes on the phone bef…
Working through my first purchase and the question came up before I expected it. My agent wants to send the seller the full report as an attachment with the repair request. Her re…
An owner of two units near me asked me to take over management starting February. Both are permitted today. The city has a proposal on the agenda for March that would cap the tota…
I've been reading my own file backward, the way an examiner would. On a double close I end up with a recorded deed into my entity and a deed out, and the standard claim is that th…
File I bought at $38k against a $91k balance, single family in a mid-size southeast metro. Borrower signed a modification, payment reset to $645 with taxes and insurance escrowed,…
The part of BRRRR I get stuck on is the middle. Buying I can do on weekends, renting I can pay someone to handle, refinancing is paperwork. The renovation looks like it wants my T…
I've been sitting with two pitches from people who both call themselves dispo shops, and they're built on opposite bets. The first one is a woman with about 60 buyers she talks to…
We got a list from a newer client last month, 9,000 records, and when my ops person ran it through scrubbing about 6 percent came back flagged against do-not-call registries. The…
I've got $9,400 saved. That's it, no other cushion beyond about two months of expenses I'm not touching. I've been pricing out what a first small rental actually costs and the gap…
Ninety addresses logged over six weeks, split into two buckets after I did the owner research. Bucket one is visibly vacant. Boarded windows, mail piled at the door, weeds through…
I keep going back and forth on this one and now I have to pick a lane. Surface lot, 64 spaces, three blocks from a hospital campus and a transit stop. Asking $940k. My underwritin…
I've been running thin-margin flips at 400k to 600k and I have about 900k of equity that could go one of two ways. A partner wants to put all of it into a single dated 3.4M house…
Reading Connecticut's Public Act 25-168, effective July 1 2026, the registration piece and the 90 day closing cap are mechanical enough. The three day seller cancellation window i…