I have money to place and haven't picked a lane yet, so treat this as a beginner question about the model itself. A sponsor sent me a one pager comparing two scenarios on the same…
@aaron_fitz10 A 4 bed house where the owner rents to four separate people but describes it as per room is worth checking closely against the actual paperwork. A single lease with…
Take an 88 space lot two blocks off a core business district. With 55 spaces on monthly contracts at $145 and the rest running transient off a kiosk, the monthly side tends to beh…
Running about 1,100 dials a week on a stacked list, pre-foreclosure plus 50 percent-plus equity plus 10-year tenure. Contact rate is fine, roughly 8 percent. The problem is that o…
I've been mailing a small absentee list for a first rental, badly and slowly. What actually happened is a woman two doors down from a property I mailed called me because her siste…
Here's a case worth examining closely. An operator building an interest list of prospective private lenders for a note buying vehicle spent about four months and 11,600 dollars wi…
The first eighteen months of a new brokerage split into two paths that look genuinely different, not just in marketing but in what the P&L looks like. Conventional purchase lane.…
I've done a handful of assignments in the $6k to $12k range and I keep running into the same ceiling: my buyers are all small landlords and flippers with maybe $300k of cash each.…
I do cleanouts and staging for a couple of estate attorneys, and one of the families said they'd rather sell me the house than watch it sit through another season. So now I'm hold…
Take a preferred equity slot in an infill townhome deal on a portal, 25,000 dollars in, 24 month projected term. Say the pref is written as 10 percent per annum on unreturned capi…
I have a rental closing in a few weeks and I was not planning to touch wholesaling at all, but a guy in a local meetup group said the high-end tier was wide open and nobody was ma…
Our county rewrote its ADU rules last spring and the new text is 26 pages. I read it because I was curious, and then I made a two page plain summary: what sizes are allowed by lot…
I'm starting from zero and reading listings I can't buy yet, and the two that keep showing up in my saved list are opposites, so I want to know how the room splits. One is a 34 si…
Take a 110 site park with 8 cabins putting out a request for a season contract covering cabin turns, two bathhouses, and two camp host couples. Stated budget is 96k for the season…
Small unattended surface lot, about 25 spaces, everything paid at a kiosk, no staff on site except a cleaner twice a week. The county clerk told me a commercial parking facility n…
Sometimes the thing that moves a service business owner's balance sheet isn't the business, it's solving a parking problem badly enough that buying dirt becomes the answer. Take a…
Consider an investor who moves slowly on purpose, so paying a service to speed up the front end of deal flow can seem like the one place spending money makes sense. It often doesn…
Been working toward doing acquisitions work for other people and got as far as a real conversation with an out of state buyer. He asked two things I wasn't ready for: do I carry E…
Still figuring out where to put money and I've been talking to two people who source for out of area buyers. They work completely differently and I want to understand which one I'…
Someone in a local group said the $3.2M house on the corner is "a pocket listing" and someone else corrected them and said no, it's an office exclusive, and then a third person sa…