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Looking at buying into a small aerial operation as something I own without running day to day, and the revenue mix is where I keep stalling out. What I was shown for last year, si…
Note one: 54k, 11 percent, matured last month, borrower paid off clean. Note two: 42k, 11.5 percent, 4 months left, same borrower, secured on a rehab in a small market where the e…
I called a custodian about moving an old 401k into a self-directed IRA so I can put some of it into land-backed notes and maybe one small land fund. The rep quoted two paths. Basi…
Been comparing the governance sections of five LPAs I've either signed or declined, and the thing that stands out is how rarely LPs get more than one real protection. Sponsors wil…
31 unit garden style, bought three years ago, 8 percent preferred return paid quarterly. Renewal came back 41 percent higher on premium, and between that and two extended vacancie…
Small one, 1.1 acre infill lot in a first ring suburb, zoning already allowed 12 units by right. I paid $310k, closed with a 21 day due diligence window because there were two oth…
Been driving the same four neighborhoods since October, mostly older ranch stock built in the fifties. My list is 212 addresses with photos, and I've pulled owner names off the co…
I'm trying to figure out how to do this without getting in trouble. Everything I've read says bird dogging needs no license because you never own the property or negotiate. Then a…
I've been underwriting a 7-unit retail strip, about 11,000 sf, seller wants $2.1M. His marketing sheet shows an 8.2 cap but that's proforma with the two vacant bays filled at aski…
14,000 sf flex building, four tenants, seller's rent roll showed $118k NOI. He wanted $1.35M, call it an 8.7 going in. I got it at $1.31M with a 20 day inspection and $5k that wen…
Something I can't resolve from the outside, and the broker owners I've asked give confident answers in opposite directions. If you're standing up a ten agent shop today, you're pi…
I've had coffee with two crew owners in the last month and they run the same size outfit with opposite answers, so I want to see how the room splits. The first one pays $28 an hou…
The sponsor I do part time admin work for paused distributions on a 190 unit value add in the second week of the quarter. I'd been hired to keep the investor CRM tidy and to forma…
Ground up, 41 units, designated tract, funded through a single asset qualified opportunity fund with four investors including me. We used the working capital safe harbor because t…
I've spent about a year trying to work out which strategy actually fits, and building a backyard cottage kept failing the same test for me: I don't have $180k and I don't have the…
Talking to a manager about a value-add fund and the paperwork keeps saying commitment rather than investment. The minimum commitment is $250,000. My understanding is I sign the su…
One of my longest-running clients has been buying apartments for 20 years. He's now raising a $50M debt fund, his first, and offered me a slot at the $100k minimum. I've never inv…
This is the question I get asked most by people who've never built improvements before, and the answers I hear from experienced developers split about evenly, so I'll put it to th…
I've been collecting consent-to-dual-agency and designated agency forms from brokerages in two states and reading them against each other, because the marketing language around de…
Real comparison off my list this month. A fourplex in a small town, 4,000 people, one large employer, 185k asking, four units renting 575 to 650. Gross around 29k. And a duplex in…