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Two ways to buy the same three or four unit building, and the argument between them rarely resolves because both sides are right about different risks. Putting more down means a s…
I've been reading a seller's package on a 14 over 4 while I wait on my own much smaller first deal, mostly to learn how these get valued. The package includes an appraisal from ei…
A pattern worth noting for anyone asked to mentor someone starting a turnover cleaning business. Pricing depends heavily on the unit and the market, but in most areas a two bedroo…
Take a case where the carpet comes up and there's red oak underneath. Dull, one bedroom has pet stains that went through the finish, but the boards are flat and tight and nothing…
I've got parcels in a rural county where the drone quotes were running $600 to $700 each because the pilot has an hour and forty minutes of drive each way. Three separate bookings…
Trying to work out where money goes on the acquisition side, and I don't think this has an obvious answer. The case for paying the fee: you see the actual property, with actual nu…
I've got about $9,000 to put into equipment and I've been sitting on the same fork for three weeks. Version one, narrow. Buy the 3D capture system plus a subscription, learn to sc…
Once a stack of addresses has been collected from spotting distressed properties, the ownership lookup is usually the next bottleneck. Zillow's estimate pages don't show owner inf…
A useful way to settle this is to run both methods on the same stretch of streets, same time of day, comparable housing stock, and compare results directly. On a blind pass with n…
For anyone allocating capital to private lending for the first time, there are two common paths into it, and they teach different things. Option one is small gap pieces behind oth…
Consider an investor choosing between two paths for a first note purchase. Option one is a tape from a note broker: several performing loans, seasoned bank paper, priced somewhere…
For anyone newer to the direct-to-seller side, the real monthly bill for a data platform with heavy stacking criteria and built-in skip tracing typically lands somewhere between $…
Lead came off a pre-foreclosure pull combined with equity over 55 percent and 19 years of ownership. Owner is behind, wants out before the sale date, and has been clear he does no…
A familiar pattern for investors who already own small multifamily buildings directly: their crowdfunding sleeve ends up almost entirely in multifamily too, not by strategy but be…
On the second luxury file I've been near, the seller's attorney asked me a direct question on the first call: are you the buyer. I said I was the buyer of record and that I work w…
Rehab contracts funded by outside capital increasingly carry one of two structures on the same kind of scope, and the split in the market suggests the industry has not settled on…
Income-focused investors often land on public non-traded REITs, the registered kind with audited financials and a $2,500 minimum, and the harder question is always position size r…
CRM buyers tend to split close to evenly between two structures, so it is worth laying out the buyer side of each. Option one is a flat build. Pay once, the account sits in the cl…
@renee_dubois a 22-unit deal bought at 2.4M with 1.35M of LP equity across six investors, 34 months into a seven year hold, distributions running 5.5% annualized with one skipped…
Looking at 38 acres about 25 minutes past the last subdivision on the highway. Ask is $4,100 an acre, so roughly $156k. The listing says it carries an agricultural valuation and t…
One for every strategy in the guide. Each has its own discussion, live deals, outcomes and polls.
