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The rate difference is the visible part. A private loan priced at 11 to 13 percent against a 7 percent conventional feels like a penalty, but the comparison only holds when both o…
A deal worth pulling apart: nine lots platted, one sold at closing to generate capital for the carry, but the surveyor filed the access easement with a bearing error that placed i…
A 20 percent down payment reads as a reasonable equity cushion when you close. A note buyer models it differently. They are pricing what happens if the borrower stops paying 18 mo…
The discount on a troubled apartment building almost always comes with a reason, and that reason costs money. The question worth sitting with before any LOI is whether the distres…
A case worth studying: a roofing contractor in a hail-heavy market started routing homeowner calls from storm claims to a real estate agent, splitting a flat fee per closed referr…
A case worth studying: a unit rented at a 40 percent premium over long-term market, client verbally committed to eight months, lease written with a 30-day termination clause "just…
So the tenants paid on time again this month and I sat there thinking about what I actually own, which is a building on a lot in a city I do not live in, and I realized I have no…
I have been turning this over all week because I have never owned industrial, and I did not know this was a hard line for some tenants until someone said it to my face. I bought i…
The deal was straightforward on paper: 8% preferred return, 70/30 split above it, 24-month projected hold on a small multifamily acquisition. Capital in, pref accruing, exit at mo…
A natural breakpoint sets the sales volume at which percentage rent starts: divide the base rent by the percentage rate, and the tenant pays nothing extra until sales cross that n…
Sitting with a probate deal in Cuyahoga County where the PR signed the purchase agreement last week, accepted my $5,000 deposit, and I just found out the sale still needs court co…
That number stopped me cold when he mentioned it casually on a call last week, because the guy who sourced those two deals walked away with more than I made on a flip I spent four…
This comes up constantly in smaller lodging assets where a full remodel effectively resets the operating clock, and the frustrating part is that the 18 months on the table can be…
That number stops me every time I look at it. Forty-one thousand dollars came in and I still owed money at the end. My bookkeeper at the time was logging gross revenue and flaggin…
A deal worth studying: a single-family bought at a county auction, 187k all in, ARV around 240k. The title search cleared. The buyer got the deed, started demo prep, and six days…
Closing was scheduled on a two-unit I'm buying into an LLC, cash deal, and my lender on a separate property apparently has a cross-default provision that touches any entity I'm in…
Had a conversation with a seller last week, nothing near luxury scale, 3-bed in the South Valley, but she googled assignment of contract mid-negotiation and called me back furious…
Carried a note on a fourplex in Stockton, sold it in early 2022. Buyer brought 15 percent down, I carried the rest at zero interest, fully amortizing over fifteen years. I did thi…
I'm looking at a 12-bed setup about six blocks from a mid-size Ohio university that's been down roughly 8 percent headcount since 2020. Seller is pricing it like enrollment stabil…
A sponsor I was reviewing materials for this week quoted a new 5,000 sf lease at $32 per sf full service, which looked fine against the submarket comp sheet. What the deck did not…
One for every strategy in the guide. Each has its own discussion, live deals, outcomes and polls.
