Getting quotes for a friend's listing and the spread is wide. One stager said $3,900 for a vacant three bed, two bath, about 1,700 square feet, covering the main living room, dini…
An investor moving from directly owned small multifamily into crowdfunded deals runs into two questions worth answering before committing capital. On the insurance side, landlord…
First rental is a BRRRR I'm holding, and I've been so deep in screening reading that I've created a timing problem for myself. Market rent looks like $1,900. I have an applicant w…
A common bird dogging setup: someone driving a three county area and pulling code violation notices generates maybe 30 to 40 names a month worth a call. Two investors want in. Inv…
Every video about virtual wholesaling says you need boots on the ground. Nobody says what that person is, whether they're an employee, whether they get a cut, or what stops them f…
A few deals in. What's happening is I bring things to buyers and they say close but no, and I burn my due diligence period finding out. My notes on each buyer say things like "SFH…
Apartment management typically runs 4 to 5 percent of collected revenue, covering leasing, maintenance coordination, and the general scope of operations. Manufactured housing comm…
Take a duplex with a full-height unfinished basement, roughly 900 square feet, with a separate exterior entrance already in place. Framing a third unit down there might be straigh…
A $1,900 quote covering LLC formation, an operating agreement, two deeds, and coordination sounds steep next to the claim that anyone can file an LLC for the state fee and a deed…
I'm buying a single family rental for $118,000 and the person who brought it to me lives about 900 miles away. He's never been inside. His numbers came with photos from a contract…
Here's the deal I'm looking at right now. Purchase $118k, rehab budget $42k and I'll finish close to it, closing and holding another $8k, so all in around $168k. Appraiser's ARV o…
Consulting proposals for a portfolio review tend to follow the same structure. Data gathering, stakeholder interviews, scenario modeling, findings presentation. Many carry a limit…
I've been talking to a few homeowners about their backyard unit plans and I keep ending up as the person who calls the building department, collects contractor bids and keeps the…
Consider a rollover IRA that's mostly idle, and a sibling who buys and rehabs small houses and could use funding for one. The instinct is to assume family is off limits here. The…
For anyone coming at driving for dollars from the paperwork side rather than the street side: a purchase agreement is straightforward. The part that gets glossed over is the middl…
Reading through a few quarterly decks, the yield sits on slide 2 but the thing management spends ten minutes on is book value per share and how it moved. One deck shows GAAP book…
Take a property manager who fields calls from owners wanting out from under a rental, and routes the ones who would rather sell than keep managing to two investors, receiving mana…
I've been charging $250 flat for what I call the standard aerial: 8 to 10 edited stills plus a 60 second clip cut to music, delivered next day. Agents keep asking me to fold it in…
I'm doing thin-margin stuff and trying not to add cost, but a guy at a meetup told me driving for dollars is fine but the second you sign a contract and assign it you need a real…
Minimums for opportunity zone funds are set by the individual fund manager, not by the program itself, which is why one account might cite 250,000 and another 25,000. Both can be…