Take a 1950s house with a tenant in a walkout basement that has a full kitchen and its own door. County records show one unit, and zoning allows an ADU under a provision added a f…
Take a self storage development versus buy decision in a secondary metro. Say a site delivers 78,000 net rentable square feet across two buildings, a mix of climate controlled and…
Reading a private lender fund's sample note and mortgage as a prospective LP, a structure like this is worth flagging: a 15 day grace period, then written notice of default, then…
Take a one truck, two-man crew operation running REO trash-outs off one servicer plus overflow turnover cleans from two property managers. A representative month: 22 haul jobs, av…
The pre-foreclosure list most investors buy is built from notice of default filings, which is a specific recorded legal step, not simply the moment an owner misses a payment. A mi…
On a small rental purchase, say a buyer owes an agent $6,000 under a buyer representation agreement and the seller only credits $4,000 toward it. The remaining $2,000 doesn't auto…
A rent roll for a 4 bedroom student housing unit near a university might show four separate lines at $650 each instead of one line at $2,600. That's by-the-bed leasing, and it's s…
Take a 44 unit assisted living facility with blended rates in the mid four thousands, T12 revenue in the low millions, and EBITDAR after a 5 percent base management fee. If that b…
When comparing a monthly retainer to an hourly rate for a real estate consultant, the confusion usually comes from the retainer not being priced in hours at all. A retainer descri…
A common structure on these platforms is a target hold of five years with one or two one year extensions at the sponsor's sole option, which in practice means the real commitment…
Working a house where the numbers are: $412k balance at 3.125%, PITI $2,190, market rent $2,450, seller wants $45k for her equity and would carry $30k of it, value around $520k. E…
The Part 107 certificate is held by the individual pilot who passed the knowledge test, not by the company. There is no company level certification the business registers before i…
Virtual wholesaling gets pitched as income without a second job, no property to manage and no tenants, often packaged as a $97 a month data subscription, a phone, and the ability…
@aaron_fitz10 A 4 bed house where the owner rents to four separate people but describes it as per room is worth checking closely against the actual paperwork. A single lease with…
Running about 1,100 dials a week on a stacked list, pre-foreclosure plus 50 percent-plus equity plus 10-year tenure. Contact rate is fine, roughly 8 percent. The problem is that o…
I've done a handful of assignments in the $6k to $12k range and I keep running into the same ceiling: my buyers are all small landlords and flippers with maybe $300k of cash each.…
Small unattended surface lot, about 25 spaces, everything paid at a kiosk, no staff on site except a cleaner twice a week. The county clerk told me a commercial parking facility n…
Been working toward doing acquisitions work for other people and got as far as a real conversation with an out of state buyer. He asked two things I wasn't ready for: do I carry E…
Someone in a local group said the $3.2M house on the corner is "a pocket listing" and someone else corrected them and said no, it's an office exclusive, and then a third person sa…
A cleaning operator running crews for five years, mostly for landlords who pay off an invoice with no paperwork required, may hit a wall applying for REO trash-out assignments thr…