I went in on a diversified non-traded REIT in late 2018, $150K, stated NAV held around $10.30 for the first three years and distributions came through reliably at 5.6%. That part…
Here is a spend worth examining. A vendor takes $4,800 over six weeks targeting a three-zip area in the outer suburbs of Columbus, Ohio. The pitch is that ads get served to people…
My aunt passed in March and left me a 17 acre parcel in rural Bledsoe County, Tennessee. Property taxes are $340 a year, no mortgage, no structures, just raw wooded hillside with…
I keep seeing acreage listings 8 to 15 miles outside a mid-size metro, around 180,000 people, growing maybe 2% a year. Prices range from $3,400 an acre at 8 miles to $1,100 an acr…
She said it like it was obvious, like the number just falls out of doing the work. Six units, maybe $180k gross if they're running well, 20% puts her at $36k before she's paid a s…
Take a clean one as the illustration. Bought at 161, 28k in, sold at 224, closing costs on both sides, four months of holding, hard money at 11 percent. That nets out around 13.2…
Take a 14 acre parcel in a county like Laurens County, South Carolina, with the seller asking 210k. Pull every lot sale within eight miles going back 36 months and the range runs…
I've got four notes that matured between january and march this year, three of them sat uninvested for somewhere between 19 and 34 days before I found something I'd actually commi…
Rented two units last fall in the same building, same price point, $1,150 a month. One I paid $275 for a photographer, wide angles, decent light, posted tuesday. One I shot myself…
That word moves operators fast, and it should. The standard response is to be on site the same day and walk every inch of it, photos and video of all five rooms and both bathrooms…
Take a building where unit 3 sold in 62 days staged and unit 4, an identical floor plan, sat 89 days with nothing in it. Hard to know how much of that gap was timing and how much…
This comparison gets messier every time it is run properly. VNQ has returned roughly 8 to 9 percent annualized over the past decade, and it can be bought or sold in thirty seconds…
Here is a case worth studying. A live-in flip bought in decatur, ga in october 2022 for $238k, $61k of renovation over about 20 months, sold in june 2024 for $329k. Gross gain $91…
Take 18 acres in eastern tennessee, free and clear, with a small barn built out about four years ago. Bought in 2021 at 142k, and a buyer now wants to carry at 185k with 25k down…
Had a property sit 34 days in phoenix last spring, dropped to 274 from 289, and the agent and I went back and forth about why. Eventually pulled the original photos and compared t…
Talked to a guy in my office thursday who has been doing this for four years, he has money in nine deals across three platforms, and he told me the moment a sponsor's deal two lau…
The owner has a condo in Scottsdale that's never been on airbnb. She wants me to handle everything from day one, photos coordinated, listing written, pricing set, guest comms, tur…
Bought a list of 214 absentee owners in pinal county back in february, ran them through a seven-touch sms and email sequence over about twelve weeks, got maybe nine conversations,…
A pattern worth studying is the operator moving from personal capital into a small equity vehicle for the first time, say 3 or 4 limited partners to start, targeting small multifa…
Take a $340k position in a non-traded REIT, 22 months in, paying 5.8 percent on a stated NAV of $10.12. The repurchase window opens in q3 and is capped at 5 percent of NAV, so the…