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I'm about a month from funding and I have two versions of the same purchase in front of me. Version one, the custodian takes title directly, deed reads as the custodian FBO my acc…
Running the fee math on two offerings that are close enough in asset quality that the difference in what I take home is mostly structure. Stripping the marketing out, here's what…
I want the boring thing that works, so I've been reading about this model and I keep hitting the same doubt. A dispo-only operator doesn't find the property, doesn't contract the…
Written criteria on my first house are 3x monthly rent in gross income, 620 minimum score, no evictions in seven years, two years of verifiable rental history. I wrote them before…
Renewal comes up in seven weeks on a three bedroom that leases in that pocket at about 2,040 today. My tenant is at 1,850, has been there twenty-six months, pays on the first ever…
The thesis in front of me is straightforward enough that even I follow it. Apartment values reset, supply is falling off, rents firm up somewhere around 2027, and whoever bought a…
I'm getting ready to put money to work on this side rather than owning buildings, and there's a fork in the road I can't reason my way past. One school says the borrower is the lo…
Fourplex under review, mid seventies build, 585k ask, four two-beds at 1,150. My reserve line is the only number in the model I can't defend to myself. The percent-of-gross approa…
Working through a recap where the sponsor has offered me a choice on where the pref sits and I want to hear the room argue it before I decide. Option one, I come in as a preferred…
Been comparing four pref structures for a slot in a fund I'm slowly building, and every one of them has a different idea of what protects the investor. What I keep noticing is tha…
Something came up talking to a guy who does maybe a dozen double closes a year. He keeps enough cash to fund the first leg himself and he still uses a funder on almost every deal.…
I've been trying to decide between a small facility and small multifamily, so I asked two owners to log a month for me and I built the comparison out. The 118-unit facility, self-…
Went through an offering package this week for a passive position and started marking up which protections would still mean something if technology company spending pulled back ha…
The exit-flexibility argument goes like this: if you underwrite a full gut so that the finished house also works as a rental at your all-in basis, then a soft resale market can't…
Notes and paper still confuse me most of the time, and bird dogging keeps getting recommended to me as the place to start because it needs no capital. I want to test that claim be…
The office manual I got at orientation has a designated agency addendum in it. The client signs, the managing broker assigns one agent to the seller and one to the buyer, and the…
A client asked me to quote turnover cleaning on a house she hasn't bought yet. When I looked at her numbers, the deal works at 68% occupancy and $240 a night and it does not work…
I'm working through a 12 over 3 in a second-ring streetcar suburb and the way I split the underwriting changes the price by about 18%. Version one: the residential rent roll alone…
I hit the ceiling on my active deals and started underwriting a 12 room house that the current owner runs with two meals a day and weekly room cleaning. His rents are roughly 190…
I've been going back and forth on this while I try to figure out which strategy actually fits me, and the dual agency question keeps showing up before I've even picked a lane. The…