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Over about three weeks of driving the same four streets on my way home I've written down 11 houses. Tarps, waist-high grass, mail visibly stacked in one door, a code enforcement n…
Five weeks of calling instead of pulling lists. I pulled cash deeds from the county recorder going back 18 months, flagged anyone who bought twice, got 41 names, reached 11 humans…
Six weeks into calling owners of unimproved rural parcels, mostly 10 to 40 acres, mostly held by people who live somewhere else. This is my own list, pulled from county records in…
I've been running a side by side for a small rental inside a Roth, all cash versus non-recourse, and the all cash column keeps winning by more than I expected. I want someone to p…
A guy who does yard work in a neighborhood I like emailed me offering what he calls off-market leads. His terms: $400 per lead, paid before he tells me the address, and he says he…
I've been at this about 14 months without buying anything, which I've made peace with. What I have is a spreadsheet of 40 rural parcels I like, 10 to 40 acres each, asking prices…
I run grounds and small systems maintenance work, and a 90 site park about two hours from a national forest asked me to bid their whole season, April through October. Mowing, pede…
Someone I met at a local meetup asked me to fund a same day double close on a vacant lot. I've only done second position loans against rentals, so land is new to me. The numbers h…
I've been building the lender list for months rather than doing deals, which is its own problem, and I finally have to pick a lane. The plan is six projects a year, average loan a…
A friend from my old job runs finance at a small hospitality sponsor and offered me a $50k slot in their next fund. Three assets, all select service, two secondary markets and one…
I've been getting emails from someone who says he finds houses for out of town buyers. He sent me one this week. $150,000 house, he says it rents for $1,450, and his fee is $8,000…
Been doing photo work part time for about eight months while I figure out whether the investing side or the service side is where I actually belong. Current numbers: 11 to 14 shoo…
My crew has been doing turns and light maintenance for a couple of small landlords for three years. One of those landlords also owns a 12 unit near a regional headquarters, and a…
Been looking at a 1970s duplex, $198k asking, both sides rented at $875, taxes $2,400, insurance quoted at $1,900. Roof is maybe six years old. It sits inside a designated opportu…
Reading my way through an offering document for the third time and writing down every place money leaves before an LP sees a dollar. 8.4m equity raise, 22m purchase, industrial fl…
A small group I have done GC work for wants to buy an 8 story office building and convert it. They asked me to do a first pass because I know how buildings go together, and I am l…
Deal on my desk is a 2016-built active adult community, 168 units, one and two bedrooms averaging 940 square feet. In-place average rent $2,190, occupancy 95.7 percent, T12 expens…
I've been going through the passive-ish options and furnished corporate keeps showing the best spread on paper. In my market a decent 1 bed unfurnished is around $1,250. The furni…
I asked to see documents on a deal a friend's family is in, mostly to practice reading them. 240 units, $34M purchase, $12M equity, five to seven year hold, $4.8M of hard costs in…
RFP came in for two age-restricted communities under the same ownership, 240 units combined, about nine acres between them. Current vendor is at $11,400 a month and the owner says…