Here is a position worth working through. Say an investor has been rotating 90k of a taxable account into REITs since spring and has made a mess of the data center piece specifica…
Accredited investor status under SEC rules generally requires meeting either an income test or a net worth test, not both. The income test looks at individual income above a state…
Take an operator who came to bird dogging almost by accident, having started by reading pre foreclosure filings for note leads and finding those filings worth more to house buyers…
The rent side of this is working. Three houses, 14 rooms total, occupancy has held around 90% room-nights for the last year, and collections are fine. What's eating me is conflict…
Sponsor wants $6M from us by the 19th and I'm stuck on the phasing. Single asset vehicle, 48 MW of contracted critical load in an emerging Sun Belt market off the I-20 corridor. T…
I have two offers I could write this week and they are so different I am not sure I am comparing them correctly. One is 56 sites on a travel corridor, ten minutes from an intersta…
I run the service side and have never owned anything. An extended family group (four households, roughly 900k they've been sitting on since a land sale) asked me to find something…
Before a first mail campaign on land goes out, it's worth having the math checked rather than finding the weak point months later. Say the list is county records, absentee owners…
Say a seller lists a small rental at 172k, cash offer, no inspection contingency after day 10. Standard so far. Then the contract comes back with "and/or assigns" after the buyer'…
Two office offerings worth comparing, since they sit at nearly opposite ends of the spectrum. Deal A. Recapitalization of a 2016-built 190,000 square foot tower in a strong CBD. 9…
Set aside $18,000 for a first year in certificates. Won 9 at the May sale, total outlay $12,060, average $1,340, rates between 8% and 12% in a premium-bid county where I paid no p…
Reading a T-12 is the easy part for most experienced buyers. Getting an actual agent relationship that produces off-market deals is the harder skill, and it shows up as a common c…
A guy I met at a meetup forwards me deals. He sent one yesterday: 6 units, older brick building in a small midwest town, asking 385k. He says the seller is motivated because he's…
Say a listing agent offers a comp analyst $250 per listing presentation, roughly 6 a month, plus early access to her expired and withdrawn pipeline ahead of her calling the owners…
Consider a package from a retiring owner: twelve houses within about nine miles of each other, built between 1958 and 1979, sizes from 1,050 to 1,480 sq ft. Asking 2,640,000, so 2…
Take an investor closing nine files in a year: 5 assignments, 2 double closes with transactional funding, 2 straight retail resales of finished flips. Average time from contract t…
Two units in a beach market with a permit cap, same owner, both already registered. He's had a co-host who quit in September and he's trying to close the gap before spring. What I…
I've been doing trim and cabinet work for a guy who flips maybe six houses a year. Last week he said if I find him anything off market he'll pay me for it, and he mentioned wantin…
My real estate is land. Roughly 60 acres held long, some of it leased for hay at a number that barely covers taxes, and a smaller parcel I expect to be worth something when the gr…
A common seller financing scenario involves 40 acres of mostly wooded, unimproved land with a gravel access easement and zoning allowing one house per 10 acres. Say the asking pri…