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I've been holding land for a while and buying it the slow way, one parcel at a time off listings. The direct mail approach to absentee owners keeps coming up and I want to price t…
I've been underwriting rentals as a spreadsheet exercise for a while and the loan side was always "20 to 25 percent down, done." Then I started reading about house hacking and the…
Trades background here, I've been on job sites for years and I'm looking at the paper side of it now. A guy at a supply house told me reverse wholesaling is the way in because you…
I've spent most of my reading time on notes and paper, so the rehab side is new to me. Every article about luxury flipping uses the word luxury like it has a definition, and then…
Everything I know about valuing property comes from rent rolls and expenses on my two small buildings. Land breaks my brain. Someone at a meetup told me he puts raw land under con…
I'm still working out where I fit in this industry and I keep circling back to the brokerage side rather than the agent side. What I can't find is a plain number for startup. I've…
Still new, so bear with me. A hard money lender's site said they fund 90 percent of purchase and 100 percent of rehab on flips, which made me think you could get into a $2M house…
I've been an LP in other people's deals for years, so this is me poking at the active side for the first time and finding out how little I know. My county posts a trustee sale lis…
He buys small multifamily and said if I bring him an address he ends up closing, he pays $500 per door. He wouldn't put it in writing, said that's just how it works and everyone i…
Learning how private money moves and this one nags at me. A flipper owns the house and insures it. A landlord insures it. A wholesaler owns nothing at any point, so is there anyth…
Renovation is my side of the business, so the tax structure part of this is where I get lost. What I read somewhere was that in an opportunity zone you have to spend more than you…
1,380 sf rehab, fixed price contract at $92,400, three draws at 30/40/30 with 10 percent retainage held to punch list. We're through demo and rough framing repairs. The GC's lumbe…
I want income, I don't want a second job. A house near me is set up with four bedrooms rented separately, about 700 a room, and the whole-house rent for the same place would be ma…
24 unit building under contract, needs about $1.8M of equity. I've talked to four capital providers now. Two want three comparable completed deals with audited statements. One off…
I priced a renovation on a house listed just under $3M and the owner's broker sent over insurance requirements I've never seen on a job before. Builder's risk at full replacement…
I hold a paper position on a rural parcel, roughly 240 acres, and the borrower has stopped responding. I need to know what's physically out there before I decide anything, and I c…
An owner forwarded me a screenshot of a caption on one of our rental listings: "ideal for a young professional couple, walk to the brewery." She drafted it in an AI tool and it we…
Working through an underwriting problem on a 12-unit that a seller describes as 70 percent voucher occupied. Contract rents average 1,180, HAP portion averages 790 of that, so rou…
Documents and structure are more my thing than swinging a hammer, so I want to understand the money before I look at a single house. What's the realistic minimum to start a live-i…
The finding I can't stop turning over: after the new rules, buyer-agent commission percentages on high-end homes drifted slightly lower while the more affordable end held or went…