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I've now looked at four notes where the pay history is spotless for a year and a half and the reason it's spotless is a modification that cut the payment. The seller's tape calls…
Six weeks in and I want to write down what happened while it's still clear. I'd built a list of 340 candidate properties in two zip codes, sourced from a mix of code violation pos…
$25k into a small hotel LP two years ago. 96 keys, limited service, sponsor with three prior properties. I did what I thought was careful diligence, which for me meant reading the…
A cleanout crew working probate estates sits at an interesting intersection, because the same job can be priced two very different ways depending on who the customer actually is.…
The personal representative's exemption rests on a fiduciary who never occupied the property being outside disclosure requirements written for owner occupants, and it is specific…
Anyone who wants income from apartments without taking on a second job as an operator is really choosing between two doors. Door one is LP equity in a value-add syndication. The u…
This was my first passive investment in anything and I picked the thing that sounded safest. Age-restricted community, 132 units, existing building from the 90s, sponsor was buyin…
Commercial wholesaling does not require capital to control the property, since the mechanism is assigning a contract rather than purchasing, but earnest money is where capital act…
A scenario worth working through because it comes up more in commercial wholesaling than people expect. Say a wholesaler is under contract on a 9,200 square foot single tenant ret…
Two owner-occupant structures run against the same $340k house, three bed, 1990s, in a submarket where it rents for about $2,450 today. The quotes below are from last month, and r…
Take a 3 bed 1.5 bath house in a working neighborhood near a community college, where the whole house would lease around 1,650 but three rooms at 725 each brings in 2,175, which i…
Trying to work out the monthly overhead on a 4-bed before I go further. I've seen co-living operators mention things like room-level listing sites, rent collection apps, and somet…
A useful failure case in capital raising is the gap between verbal interest and actual wired funds, because the failure usually sits in the sequence, not the underlying thesis. Ta…
This question comes up constantly and the room splits every time, so it is worth seeing the actual count. When a borrower uses a broker on a residential loan, the broker's compens…
Take a freestanding QSR pad, about 2,400 sf, on a commercial strip in a mid-size southern market, purchased at $1.18m with NOI of $74,500, a 6.3 cap. 11 years left on the lease, c…
I've done a few small value-add residential deals and I'm hitting the ceiling on how much of my week they take. Net lease looks like the answer, except every listing that has a te…
Since the incentive became permanent under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the thing I'm seeing on the acquisition side is that sellers of dirt inside likely tracts have figured o…
Take an investor with $2.4M of eligible gain from a partnership disposition and roughly 70 days left on the 180 day deployment clock, choosing between two funds. Fund A is already…
When a sponsor with a handful of deals and a modest LP base offers a flat monthly fee for investor relations, it helps to separate two things that get conflated often. Investor re…
Say a sponsor asks someone to take over the investor-facing side of the book for two apartment deals plus a storage facility, about $14m of LP equity, 180 investors on the cap tab…
One for every strategy in the guide. Each has its own discussion, live deals, outcomes and polls.
