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Loan quotes on single-tenant retail keep setting up the same conflict, and it is worth hearing how the buyers here resolve it. Take a box with 9 years left on a corporate lease, n…
Take a buyer working through a first purchase who calls about a listing, likes it, and is told the listing agent can write the offer too. In states permitting this with written co…
A common bind in tax lien investing: a certificate purchased three years ago for 2,410 on a small frame house on a third of an acre, statutory rate 12 percent, with subsequent tax…
At a dozen tax lien certificates in one county, an investor can hold the whole portfolio in their head. Scaling to something like 80 certificates across three counties in two stat…
Sponsor is a third party, no relationship to me, a value-add multifamily deal. Minimum check is $100k. I've got about $180k in a self-directed traditional IRA and roughly $120k of…
I put 120k of Roth IRA money into a value-add residential fund in early 2023. The pitch was 14 to 16 percent, the sponsor had a track record I checked properly, and the whole poin…
Consider an agency mortgage REIT position opened around an 11 percent headline yield, say 5,000 dollars into shares near 6.20. Over 15 months the quarterly dividend holds steady w…
Say an operator has twelve hours of recorded material on running a rental turnover, built for internal training and cleaned up for outside use. There are two common ways to struct…
Here is what a first purchase through a sourcing service tends to look like when it goes right, with the numbers laid out. Picture a small duplex the buyer did not find himself. S…
Consider a 31,000 square foot multi tenant industrial flex property, four tenants, in a small southeast logistics market. Estate sale, listed for seven months with a residential b…
Long holds and land are my normal territory, so this is me reading into something adjacent rather than operating in it. A dispo arrangement was described to me where the operator…
Take a disposition operation built over seven months. 214 names in the CRM, 61 tagged as verified, meaning proof of funds seen in the last 90 days and at least one confirmed close…
Contract at 74k on a 1,400 square foot two story in an older streetcar neighborhood, roof was near end of life and I priced that in. End buyer at 98k, cash, contract signed, fundi…
A recurring situation in sale leasebacks: an investor group approaches a business owner about buying the building the business operates out of. Take a freestanding 6,400 square fo…
Take an 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 th…
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…
This is the loss post. It went fine on paper and then I ran out of money. Bought a 3 bed ranch at 244,000, 3.5 percent down FHA, so 8,540 down and about 6,600 in closing after a s…
Been going back and forth with an operator for six weeks. Small shop, three people, buys rural and recreational parcels in four counties across two states, sells most of them on i…
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…
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…
One for every strategy in the guide. Each has its own discussion, live deals, outcomes and polls.
