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Low price point rural markets, mostly $50k to $90k houses, get almost no attention from the education business. Go through four programs' free content plus a paid course at $1,500…
An inherited house is going on the market and the listing agent has used three phrases in two conversations. She said the place needs staging, then said we could do soft staging t…
Say a buyer's agent hands over three inspector names for a $310,000 house and the buyer picks the middle one at $475. Then someone tells the buyer never to use an agent's list, be…
I've been holding land and I'm looking at putting some of it into an actual rented house, so I'm building the comparison from scratch and I don't trust my own conclusion yet. Deal…
Anyone coming from land and zoning finds the operating side of a storage facility to be new territory, and the vendor quotes make it harder. One vendor prices a management platfor…
Everything written about the REIT to private valuation gap frames it as a reason to deploy into listed. Careful underwriting keeps producing the other resolution. Concretely: take…
Take an upcoming deed sale in a county where the construction side is easy to read. The parcel is a 1940s balloon frame house with an opening bid of $9,400, which is four years of…
A pattern worth untangling. A seller's agent says the seller will wrap his loan to the buyer, then in the next sentence calls it a subject-to, and when asked which one it is, answ…
The rent side is worth understanding before anything else in this program. There is a published number per bedroom count for an area and the housing authority will not approve ren…
Take a management company that pulls its numbers apart properly for the first time. 340 doors, average rent $1,455, a 9 percent fee on collected rent, so base management revenue p…
A developer sent a neighbor of a parcel I'm watching an option agreement for a solar lease, something like $35 an acre a year for the option period and then a lot more if they bui…
Read a typical listing media agreement before a client signs it and the grant clause will license the images to the listing brokerage "for the term of the listing agreement, for m…
An investor reached out about coordinating work on two of his rentals. In one sentence he asked if I could "put a rehab crew together" and in the next he asked whether I was a lic…
Take a sponsor with nine deals, 240 LP positions, and 170 unique households after deduping joint accounts and the investors who came in through both an IRA and a trust. Two quotes…
Say a prospective student is doing diligence on two coaching programs before spending $9,000. Both have testimonial pages. Both put a number on the homepage, one claiming students…
Here is a scenario worth working through. A tired owner of a fourplex offers to lease the whole building to a neighboring investor for a flat $4,400 a month for three years, with…
Take a purchase agreement on a nine park aggregation, about 1,100 pads, seller a family operator consolidating out. The utility reps are where a buyer should stop and read slowly.…
A common moment on an intro call with a self directed custodian. The investor is moving part of a brokerage IRA over to buy a small rental, and the rep says that if the IRA owns t…
Picture an LPA for an opportunistic fund where two clauses sit next to each other in a way that deserves attention. The reinvestment section lets the GP recycle disposition procee…
A few flips in and I'm hitting the ceiling on what I can fund myself, so I'm looking at going passive on some of my capital. The platform pages say things like "no investor fees"…
One for every strategy in the guide. Each has its own discussion, live deals, outcomes and polls.
