live deals, numbers on the table
Been doing quick turns, 60 to 90 days, buy with hard money at 11.5% and two points, out. Never held anything. Somebody brought me a seller who won't take cash and I don't know how…
A scenario that teaches something about the cost of an owner's own time. Take 22 units across three small multifamily buildings, all within nine miles. Gross scheduled $24,500 a m…
Closing on a small single family rental in three weeks. After down payment, closing costs and the first insurance premium I'll have about $40,000 sitting in savings earning basica…
A tight, fixed time budget, say eight hours a week with weekends off the table and evenings only half available, is a real constraint worth pricing honestly rather than working ar…
This is my first look at anything in the shared-housing space, so beginner questions ahead. An operator I've met twice is raising for a small fund, six houses, all rented by the r…
A guy in a local investor group is selling a note and offered it to me because I said I had money sitting and no properties. I've read about this for maybe three weeks and I don't…
The goal for a lot of buyers looking at small parks in the 500,000 to 900,000 dollar range is income that does not turn into a second job, and the appeal is that the land is what…
I've been building a spreadsheet to compare offerings across platforms and it's gotten out of hand, because the headline number is the only thing that's comparable and it's the le…
I've been getting ready for a first rental for about a year, mostly reading about screening tenants, and now something landed in my inbox before I was ready for it. A guy who call…
The advisory agreement and repurchase plan behind a NAV REIT usually reward closer reading than the fact sheet invites. A typical performance participation runs 12.5% of total ret…
Consider a framing and finish crew pulled into ADU work as a sub on detached builds, running two units for the same GC with cost structures different enough to be worth comparing.…
Here is a structure worth working through, because it comes up constantly in seller financed land and the paperwork rarely addresses it. Take 60 acres at $240,000, which is $4,000…
I'm five months into learning this and somehow I'm the one with a signed LOI, so please tell me where I'm wrong. 60-lot park, 54 occupied, all tenant-owned homes except one the pr…
Here is a scenario worth working through. A small seller offers a one off note: balance $71,400, borrower has not paid since March 2024, ask $28,000. Single family, 1,340 square f…
Take a coaching program worth working through as a live scenario. Eight weeks, 1,900 dollars, cap of eight seats, aimed at people buying 50k to 90k houses in towns under 5,000 peo…
I'm still finishing my licensing hours and the broker I'm shadowing gave me a broker opinion of value to draft on a 62-key hotel in a secondary market, mostly as an exercise. I sa…
Take a 1,900 sq ft two story bought 19 months ago for $312k with about $8k in closing costs, with $68k invested since, mostly kitchen, two baths, windows, bringing basis to roughl…
A listing marketing service built around flyers, a social set, and a listing description rewrite, priced per listing rather than by retainer, tends to produce volatile months, str…
Six months of looking and this is the first thing I've written an LOI on, so tell me what I've got wrong. Secondary midwest city, edge of a downtown that's had two zoning changes…
I'm under contract on two houses in the same suburb, closing 11 days apart, and I ended up with two different inspectors because of scheduling. So I have both agreements side by s…
One for every strategy in the guide. Each has its own discussion, live deals, outcomes and polls.
