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I renovate for a living so I thought furnishing would be the easy part. Budgeted 8k for a 2 bed 1000 sq ft unit aimed at relocation placements. I'm at 14,200 and still need a seco…
Reading through the new QOF reporting obligations that came in with the permanence legislation, and the framing everywhere is that this is a fund-level compliance burden. Fine. Ex…
44-lot park, 32 occupied, 12 vacant pads with what the seller says are live water, sewer and electric stubs. Lot rent is $340 and collections look decent on the 32. Dealer quoted…
The luxury wholesaling material leans hard on the phrase "off market distressed estate", and plenty of people in the analysis stage nod along at it for months without pinning down…
Take a buyer under contract on a 4 unit whose agent mentions in passing that her transaction coordinator charges $450 and that it will appear on the closing statement. Most buyers…
The retainer model comes up often on the service side for people who want income without capital and without a second full time job. A typical draft looks like this: $1,500 a mont…
Anyone building services aimed at agents needs to understand what credential actually sits behind the phrase luxury specialist. The designations in circulation include CLHMS and L…
I put money into other people's deals and read their documents, so I'm coming at this from the paperwork end rather than from operating. A sponsor I look at is starting to offer r…
First rental is coming so I'm not doing this, but a family friend is winding down a 22-agent brokerage and asked what it's worth. I said I had no idea and went looking. What I fou…
Anyone studying property management companies as businesses runs into the software question without a straight number attached. Everything points at AppFolio or Buildium, and the…
Every cost breakdown I can find stops at the down payment and closing costs. Nobody lists the running stuff. If I buy a duplex and live in one side, what do I actually sign up for…
This is the question I'd be embarrassed to ask out loud. Everyone talks about the two year rule like it's obvious you'll make it, but what if I get 18 months in and I genuinely ca…
The plan I had drawn was 3,200 square feet and the framing number came back so far over my budget that the whole thing stopped working, even before I priced the mechanicals. Meanw…
An agent handling a bank-owned house asked me to price a trash-out. I quoted it the way I'd quote a move-out cleaning, hourly plus supplies, and she came back asking for a cubic y…
Here is a situation worth working through. An investor spends six months with an agent who bills himself as investor focused and hands him a written screen: max purchase 180k, 8.5…
I'm midway through licensing and I've been in a micro-wholesaler group chat for a while, mostly listening. Roughly 14 members, informal, deals get passed around with a one-page JV…
A private lender I know is selling a note on a house I did the kitchen and bath on a couple of years back. Owner-occupied, borrower has apparently paid every month since. He wants…
Consider an LP position in a prime CBD office asset where the debt is the part worth stress testing. As presented: a $78m purchase, 91 percent leased, in place NOI of $5.65m, so a…
The duplex I'm looking at has a single water meter for both units, and the seller's statement shows water and sewer around $180 a month, paid by the owner. My agent said just add…
If I'm going to find houses for other people's money, I want to know what the overhead actually is before I quote anyone a fee. What I think I need: some kind of list pulling soft…
One for every strategy in the guide. Each has its own discussion, live deals, outcomes and polls.
