All 132 real estate strategies.Every room answered.
Start with a RE category
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someone asked, the room worked it out
Construction is my background, investing is not, so I'm the guy who trusts a scope of work and distrusts a comp. Property is a 1,400 square foot 3/2 in a decent submarket. Agent's…
I'm reading everything twice and this is the part I keep circling. When my parents bought, the agent had the listings and you didn't. That was the product. Now I can see every hou…
I've got a 40-unit garden style building tied up at 3.1m. Seller is an estate, no broker, deferred maintenance everywhere, in-place rents about $180 under market on 28 of the 40 u…
I've been reading through everything here twice and I still can't get a straight answer on this bit. Say I've driven a street, logged a house with a collapsed porch and a full mai…
Selling a small rental through an agent and she came back asking me to cover $1,850 for what she called an enhanced marketing package. Photography, video walkthrough, a printed br…
I do due diligence on passive positions for a living and I've somehow never bought a house myself, so I'm trying to build the cash requirement from the bottom up rather than trust…
Most of what I buy is raw acreage, cash, no appraisal and no loan. The deadline list that a coordinator would normally run against is largely the lender's, and there isn't one. Wh…
Owner of a lake cabin about 40 minutes from me wants me to run it. 18% of what the guest pays, he keeps paying the cleaner and the linen service directly. He told me his policy is…
Six apartments over 2,400 sf of storefront, building went up in the 1920s, and the parcel got rezoned to a residential district decades ago. The commercial space is a legal noncon…
Coming into this from nothing, no real estate background at all. I've got a truck lined up and one property manager willing to try me on turnover cleans. Every video I watch is so…
I'm setting up to work with investor buyers once my license clears and I've been reading sample buyer-broker agreements to see what I'd actually be asking someone to sign. The one…
The convergence argument shows up everywhere: public REITs trading at a discount to both broader equities and to private real estate marks, with the private gap described as the l…
Numbers first. $200k sale, $20k down, $180k carried at 8%, 30 year amortization with a balloon at year five. Payment works out to about $1,320 a month and the balance at the ballo…
Land and long holds are what I know. Somebody at a meeting said I should hold some REITs for liquidity since my land does nothing for years at a time, and I nodded like I understo…
I've got two questions nobody will give me a straight answer on. First, if I'm actually negotiating the document rather than signing a form, what am I paying a lawyer? I've heard…
An agent sent me a listing for a single parking space in a downtown condo garage. $38,000, HOA dues $95 a month, currently rented to someone in the building for $225 a month. The…
Construction background, learning the money side. I run two projects a year, average sale around $340k. At 2.5% that's $8,500 per sale going to a listing agent, so $17k a year I'm…
Five years running lead gen as a service. Nine investor clients, $2,500 a month each, and every one of them wants my time on calls I've already had. I want out of the retainer mod…
I've been reading a flyer for a 14,000 sf building leased to a dermatology practice and a physical therapy group. It's described as an off-campus MOB, mostly second generation spa…
My plan has always been service side rather than owning property. What I'm circling is whether bird dogging can be run as a small business with subscribers rather than one-off fee…