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On furnished corporate units I keep leaving a blank line in the operating expenses for software and services, because I don't know what the real stack is. On long-term rentals it'…
Construction is my background, the investing side is new. Everything I read about opportunity zones talks about funds like they're big institutional things with a whole back offic…
Doing diligence on a sponsor's fourth offering, 12m equity target. Their prior three deals list one family office as the largest investor, and from the capital account detail they…
Working through an offering memo where the sponsor isn't buying the building at all. They're buying the mortgage at roughly 55 cents on the dollar and describing the conversion as…
148 units, purpose-built 55-plus, no dining room, no care of any kind. In-place rents average $2,150 and my model runs total operating expenses at 32% of EGI, call it $7,900 a uni…
I renovate for a living so I thought furnishing would be the easy part. Budgeted 8k for a 2 bed 1000 sq ft unit aimed at relocation placements. I'm at 14,200 and still need a seco…
Reading through the new QOF reporting obligations that came in with the permanence legislation, and the framing everywhere is that this is a fund-level compliance burden. Fine. Ex…
44-lot park, 32 occupied, 12 vacant pads with what the seller says are live water, sewer and electric stubs. Lot rent is $340 and collections look decent on the 32. Dealer quoted…
I've been in the analysis stage for months and I want to stop. The luxury wholesaling material all says the deals are "off-market distressed estates" and I think I'm nodding along…
Under contract on a 4-unit and my agent mentioned in passing that her transaction coordinator charges $450 and it'll show up on my closing statement. I had assumed a coordinator w…
I want income that doesn't turn into a second full-time thing, and this looked like the closest fit on the service side because there's no capital required. The structure I've bee…
Building out services aimed at agents and I need to understand what credential actually sits behind the phrase "luxury specialist". I've seen CLHMS, Luxury Property Specialist, an…
I put money into other people's deals and read their documents, so I'm coming at this from the paperwork end rather than from operating. A sponsor I look at is starting to offer r…
First rental is coming so I'm not doing this, but a family friend is winding down a 22-agent brokerage and asked what it's worth. I said I had no idea and went looking. What I fou…
Trying to understand these companies as businesses and I keep running into the software question without a straight number attached. Everything points at AppFolio or Buildium, and…
Every cost breakdown I can find stops at the down payment and closing costs. Nobody lists the running stuff. If I buy a duplex and live in one side, what do I actually sign up for…
This is the question I'd be embarrassed to ask out loud. Everyone talks about the two year rule like it's obvious you'll make it, but what if I get 18 months in and I genuinely ca…
The plan I had drawn was 3,200 square feet and the framing number came back so far over my budget that the whole thing stopped working, even before I priced the mechanicals. Meanw…
An agent handling a bank-owned house asked me to price a trash-out. I quoted it the way I'd quote a move-out cleaning, hourly plus supplies, and she came back asking for a cubic y…
Six months into a relationship with an agent who bills himself as investor-focused. I gave him a written screen: max purchase 180k, 8.5% cap on trailing actuals, 1.25 DSCR at 7.25…