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This is a case worth studying for anyone who spends time on land and zoning, because it's an easy category to check the wrong thing on. 1970s ranch, four bedrooms, two baths, boug…
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…
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…
Anyone funding a first small position in a public non-traded REIT hits the same fork on the subscription form: take distributions in cash to a bank account, or reinvest them into…
Owner occupant loan programs, including conventional loans with as little as 3 to 5 percent down and FHA loans down to 3.5 percent, exist because the borrower is going to live in…
House hacking examples tend to cluster around two shapes, three roommates in a five bedroom, or a duplex where an owner shares a wall and a driveway with a tenant. For a first tim…
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…
A common trap for anyone building a reverse wholesaling buyers list looks like this. Someone doing service work walks through houses all week and figures they can connect the disc…
The deal was a 68,000 square foot storage facility in a secondary southeast market with a 22,000 foot climate controlled addition to be built on excess pad. Portal deal, accredite…
Take a 6,200 sq ft 1994 build on a golf course lot in a top submarket. Listed at 2.65M, sitting 140 days, seller is an estate. An offer worth considering sits around 2.35M, maybe…
A common line at meetups is that raw land can be put under contract at around 30 cents on the dollar. The obvious question is 30 cents of what. A county assessor's number is not a…
Title commitment came back Friday on an 18 acre parcel I have under contract at 42,000. Builder buyer has verbally agreed to 68,000 and wants four lots off the road frontage. Two…
Passed the broker exam in the spring, mostly because I was tired of paying a split on my own deals and I wanted the option. Now I'm sitting on it and the math isn't as obvious as…
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…
Consider a 5,400 square foot luxury renovation, roughly halfway through construction, where the millwork package for a kitchen, butler's pantry, primary closets, and a paneled stu…
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…
This was a bank-owned two bed plus a converted attic room in an inner-ring suburb, on the market 71 days with two price cuts. List was 164, I offered 141 with proof of funds and a…
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…
A common structure for someone who wants income from an orchard without farming it is to buy the crop and lease out the farming. Take 60 acres of mature pecans, trees mostly 25 to…
One for every strategy in the guide. Each has its own discussion, live deals, outcomes and polls.
