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Everything I read frames bird dogging as the thing you do for six months before you start wholesaling or buying, which makes it sound like an internship you assign yourself. But s…
I've been looking at hold-and-wait plays and this came in from an agent who knows I'm patient: a 1,900 sf brick ranch, four bedrooms, priced about $60k under the comps, described…
Two houses under contract review, one of them has to go. House A: 3,200 sq ft, 4 bed 3 bath, single story, 0.4 acre. Asking 465k. Layout gets me 6 residents in 5 rooms if I conver…
A borrower brings you 300 acres, appraised at 1.6 million, and the appraiser splits it into 900k of land and 700k of standing timber. Underwriting question that I keep going back…
Four unit turn in a small multifamily building, all four vacant at once after a roof job pushed everyone out on schedule. I decided to skip the local leasing agent and hire a mark…
22 acres on the edge of a growing suburb, contract at $1.45M, contingent on rezoning from a two acre minimum residential district to something that would carry 74 lots. Fourteen m…
I'm looking at a stabilized 140-unit facility in a secondary market where nothing new has broken ground in four years. Current mix is 110 drive-up non-climate and 30 climate-contr…
I've toured four age-restricted rental communities in the last month, which for someone who was selling insurance a year ago is a lot of clubhouses. Two of them were amenity heavy…
Sitting with a proposal I'm about to sign as the buyer, and the structure is bothering me more than the price. It's $1,900 a month for a mid size agent team and the deliverables a…
I want something to show an investor by the end of next month and I've got about $300 and four free weekends. Two ways to spend it and I keep flipping. Option one is data. A list…
A friend forwarded me a conversion fund package, 340 pages, and I've been reading it in the wrong order for a week. The PPM is long and mostly risk factors written to protect the…
Deal on my desk: a partially built 138 lot subdivision in a metro suburb where the original developer stalled. Phase 1, 60 lots, is recorded and has roads, water, sewer, and dry u…
I own 9 acres behind one of my small buildings, picked it up years ago with the rest of the site and it's been sitting in grass. Planning tells me up to 4 lots goes through an adm…
Two scopes for the same 1950s three-bed came across my desk this week, both written by the same investor, and I've been staring at them for days. Scope A is 38k. Kitchen, bath, fl…
Went through a portfolio memo last week that priced 14 facilities at a blended cap and then, on page 31, asserted a 75 basis point compression on exit "reflecting portfolio scale.…
I've read management agreements on five apartment deals in the last two years as a passive investor, and the base fee is almost never the interesting part. Everybody's at 2.5% to…
Working through a first-time debt fund from a shop that's been doing equity deals for years. Loans are bridge, first position, quoted at SOFR plus 450 to 500 with floors, so call…
I have $200k I'm ready to place and two funds in front of me. I've never been in a fund before, only two small LP positions in single-property deals. Fund A: $75M value-add multif…
I'm starting from nothing here and I want to understand the cost structure of an acquisitions operation before I understand anything else. Everything I read talks about markets an…
I've been asked for a $250k commitment to a closed-end apartment fund, $400m target, value-add and opportunistic multifamily, three year investment period with a one year extensio…