Two proposals in front of me for the same scope, roughly 30 hours a week of admin and light lead follow-up. One is hourly at a rate that only bills time logged, with screenshots a…
Duplex, both sides rented, tired but no structural problems. I had it at 129,000 from a landlord who was done. End buyer at 152,000. That 23,000 felt like too much to put in front…
Signed up on two platforms last week. One took me straight in, 10 dollar minimum on a pooled fund. The other put a form in front of me asking me to certify income over 200k or a n…
I've been looking at land and holding patterns mostly, and crowdfunding came up as a way to park capital while I wait. What I can't sort out is that some platforms take $10 or $50…
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My coworker has been talking about buying hunting land for two years and last month he actually got serious about a piece, so I tagged along because I had nothing else going on Sa…
Bought a small two bed cottage, dated but sound, 900 square feet. Budget was 26,000 cosmetic. Three weeks in I've spent 4,200 and nothing I've paid for is visible. Dumpster and ha…
Dated house, mid seventies, and the plan was paint, flooring, fixtures, light kitchen refresh. Nothing behind a wall. Then the electrician I brought in for can lights told me the…
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Four of us were on a punch list at a 288 unit complex, three story garden style, built in 2021 out in a Sun Belt suburb where there were two more cranes visible from the parking l…
A brokerage I quote for asked whether I do generated staging, and when I said I do standard virtual staging with photographed furniture composited in, they asked what the differen…
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There's a house about four miles from me with a hand-painted sign in the yard. RENT TO OWN. NO BANK NEEDED. Phone number. I've been trying to figure out whether I'd ever want to b…
I'm building a list of strategies and trying to figure out which ones I can actually touch versus which ones are spectator sports for me. Development keeps showing up as "most cap…
We manage about 900 units across small and mid-size stabilized buildings. Owner of a development that delivers in nine months wants us on it. 180 units, three buildings, phased CO…
First real private deal I did. $75,000 into a value-add multifamily fund in 2021, 216 units across two properties in a sunbelt secondary market. What sold me was the investor rela…
I manage 140 units for a sponsor who has four syndications, and he asked if my team would take over the quarterly investor updates and answering LP emails. He'd pay a flat monthly…
Under contract on a 6.2 acre infill parcel at $340,000 in a growth path suburb. The seller wants a 30 day close and won't split it. My Roth SDIRA has $154,000 available. I have $1…
60-space surface lot, mid-size downtown, one block from a hospital employee entrance. Trailing gross is about $19,000 a month, so $228k a year, roughly 60/40 monthly contracts to…
This is the first thing I've looked at seriously in eight months of reading. Paved lot, 34 marked spaces, half a block from the employee entrance of a regional hospital. Owner is…
I've been mapping out what a 20 unit co-hosting book would look like before I take a single owner, and I keep landing on the same fork. Density in one submarket is the operational…
Third owner is signing and I still don't have a consistent way of getting paid. My first two are set up with the Airbnb co-host payout split, so my percentage lands in my account…
Two agencies quoted me and they're selling opposite things. The first says their people come out of a four week program on real estate terminology and the common CRMs, and they ch…