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Six months of nothing and then this one went through in a single morning, so I'll write down what it actually cost while I still remember. Small three bed in an older subdivision,…
A four door portfolio attempting a full BRRRR cycle, buy, rehab, rent, refinance, repeat, is a useful case for showing where the fifth step goes wrong even when the first four go…
I've spent my whole working life in the trades and had never touched the investing side, so I did the smallest version of this I could think of. Pulled 60 owners off the county si…
I've been researching instead of buying for a while and I decided the one thing I could do without capital was ask hard questions. So I wrote a one page request and sent it to fiv…
I run rehabs and I wanted a steady flow of seller appointments without me on the phone. Set up an appointment setting desk through an agency in November: two dialers at $11/hr ful…
This closed six weeks ago and I've been waiting to write it up until the first rent hit the account, which it did on the second. What it is: a 2,100 sf condominium retail unit ins…
Take a rural lake town, population under 3,000, the kind of place that draws investors because price points are low enough that a single mistake does not end the operation. This c…
Take a live-in-then-rent conversion structured as a 5 percent down conventional purchase on a 3 bed 2 bath in a decent school zone, purchase price 312,000, 15,600 down, 7,100 in c…
Take a small three bedroom under contract at 91k with an end buyer lined up at 118k. A double close is often chosen over an assignment when a spread like 27k looks large enough to…
Numbers first so nobody has to ask. 14 unit brick walk-up, pre-1940, second tier midwest market, bought for 1.02m with a 700k bridge and 1.35m of LP equity from nine investors. Re…
I got into this sideways. A guy I know sells rural parcels on installment contracts and was tracking 14 buyers in a spreadsheet with a stack of paper checks in a drawer. I offered…
Land parcel, 68 acres, mostly wooded with about 11 acres of cleared pasture and a gravel access easement. County reassessed it and moved the value up 41 percent in one cycle, whic…
Here is the version of land investing with almost no surprises in it, worth studying as a small first split done slowly. 9.1 acres in a county about 40 minutes from a mid-size cit…
Take a full first cycle on a platform-lending ladder: $46k deployed across 21 debt positions on three platforms, most in the $1.5k to $3k range with a couple at $5k. Stated rates…
A useful case study in corporate and furnished housing is a three bedroom townhome near a hospital campus that runs a lot of contract specialists. Say an operator leases it from t…
In 2021 I sold a piece of inherited farmland and had a $180k long-term gain. I put the whole thing into a two-asset qualified opportunity fund, ground-up multifamily in a small me…
A ground lease on a small campground is worth flagging for anyone new to the sector, because a single clause can carry more weight than it looks like on first read. The structure:…
Here is an operations case that moves more money than many acquisitions do. Take six units, four of them running furnished for mid-term and corporate stays. The problem: every uni…
A useful case for anyone drowning in list size. Start with a broad pull, everything absentee in two zip codes with 50 percent plus equity, which can easily run into the thousands…
A case worth studying because the loss hides inside a healthy looking gross line for a year. Six level garage in a secondary downtown, 240 spaces, with a minority partner buying i…
One for every strategy in the guide. Each has its own discussion, live deals, outcomes and polls.
