Quotes I've been looking at on single-tenant retail keep setting up the same conflict, and I want to know how the buyers here resolve it. Take a box with 9 years left on a corpora…
I've got twelve hours of recorded material on how to run a rental turnover, filmed for my own crew and then cleaned up. Two people outside the company have asked for access. So no…
88 unit garden style value-add offering, 1980s build, sponsor plans 62 interior renovations over 30 months at 18k per door all in. Hard cost contingency is 5 percent of the constr…
An investor group approached me about buying the building my service business operates out of. Freestanding, 6,400 square feet, decent hard corner in a second-tier metro. Their of…
A few deals in and I've hit something I didn't expect. On my first two lighter rehabs I was at the house most days and I thought that was why they went fine. On the gut I just fin…
I came into this from a completely different industry and one of the first things I noticed is how much of a title search is pattern matching against recorded documents. Which is…
Sitting on about $1,400 and trying to work out the order of operations on the aerial side, because everyone I ask gives me the opposite answer. One path is spend on the Part 107 s…
I've been reading two different pitch decks for park funds and they lead with completely different things. The first one spends four pages on lot rents being $340 in the target ma…
I'm close to funding a small position in a public non-traded REIT and the subscription form makes me pick: take distributions in cash to my bank account, or reinvest them into mor…
The open-end debt aggregate was up 5.5 percent year to date gross of fees through Q3 2025, against 4 percent for the equity index. Every closed-end bridge fund deck on my desk cit…
I'm going through a JV agreement for the first time as the equity side and the exit section is two sentences long. The operator "shall determine the timing and terms of any sale i…
I have a contract shape figured out and now I'm stuck on sequencing. Say I get 12 acres under contract at 30k with a 30 day inspection period. Do I open title immediately and pay…
A guy who's been a customer of mine for years came into my shop convinced he could buy houses at the tax sale for a few thousand dollars. He'd read that liens sell for the amount…
I tried to put a number on expected appreciation for a 26 acre parcel in an exurban county and got two answers I can't reconcile. Method one, county trend. I pulled fifteen years…
35 day diligence window on a 19,000 square foot older retail and service building, two bays, one former dry cleaner space from the 80s that everybody in the chain of title seems t…
I'm about six months from buying one small rental and I don't want a second job out of it. Two things pulling at me. The voucher case: a big slice of the rent comes from the housi…
Working out what my first purchase costs in a way that survives contact with a house I can't get into. I've been running 15 percent of ARV as a repair contingency on anything I ha…
Running about 260 to 310 inbound seller leads a month across paid search and direct mail, two acquisitions people, no dedicated ISA. Measured speed to lead over six weeks and the…
I've been reading the exit posts in here and they split in a way I didn't expect. Two different disciplines, both defensible. One camp writes the trigger at purchase. Sewer gets f…
Four agents have sent me an investment summary in the past year. Every one of them had the same three problems. Vacancy at 5%, which is a number people type rather than a number t…