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DiscussionLuxury Specialist Real Estate Agent

Redfin says buyer-side fees ticked down at the top while they held everywhere else. Does that trend keep going?

I read the Redfin analysis showing buyer-agent commissions on luxury homes came down slightly after the new rules while commissions on cheaper homes held or went up. Small move, b…

luis_carrera Get yours2 replies

WinOff-Market Deal Sourcing

Cut the list from 4,100 to 61, three conversations in week one

I've been the analysis guy in this room for a while so this is me reporting on the cure. The pull started as everything absentee in two zip codes with 50 percent plus equity, 4,10…

luis_carrera Get yours4 replies

WinCorporate / Furnished Housing

A single furniture package across four units cut my turn from nine days to three

Six units total, four of them now running furnished for mid-term and corporate stays. This was an operations fix rather than a deal, and it moved more money than my last acquisiti…

23Bbrandonlee36Passive0 replies

DiscussionShort-Term Rental Co-Hosting

Who gets to move the nightly rate, and what the clause should say

Two owners I did renovation work for want me running their units next season, and both drafts I've been sent handle pricing completely differently. One says I set rates at my disc…

mitchell_ray4 Get yoursPRO127 replies

DiscussionNote Buying (Non-Performing)

Difference between a discounted payoff and a short sale on a note I own?

Two of the resolution paths people list are DPO and short sale and I've read both descriptions three times without the distinction landing. In both cases the borrower ends up payi…

raj_mehta14CapitalPRO13Answered1 reply

From the desk:Note Buying (Non-Performing)

A 2019 sewer assessment surfaced six weeks in, so advance $7,300 or not

Note bought at $52k, UPB $114k, house came in around $167k as-is on an exterior BPO with photos I trust. Vacant, secured, I've been paying to check on it monthly. Title came back…

carlos_nunezActiveAnswered1 reply

DiscussionTransaction Coordination

When does a second coordinator start paying for itself?

Working through the numbers on a coordination practice that's at capacity. Say 34 open files at any time, 13 closings a month, flat $400 per file, so about $5,200 a month gross fr…

9Kkevin_lombardPG1BPRO17Answered3 replies

From the desk:Transaction Coordination

The TC agreement says "reminders only." So who owns the deadline?

My agent uses a coordinator and sent me her client agreement to sign as part of onboarding on a small purchase. I read it twice because that's what I do, and three clauses bother…

14Ddmitri_v6CapitalPRO7Answered9 replies

From the desk:Dual Agent

The listing agent wants to write my offer too

I found a small three bedroom through an open house and the agent who was standing in the kitchen handing out flyers said she could just write the offer for me and save everyone t…

aaron_fitz10 Get yoursPRO15Answered3 replies

DiscussionDual Agent

Agent showing me a house she also listed, is that allowed?

I've been going to open houses with an agent I found online, and one of the places she took me to is a listing that's hers. Her own sign in the yard. She said if I want to write o…

bmoreno23AB1BAnswered8 replies

DiscussionMid-Term Rentals (30-90 Days)

Furnish to the corporate standard or the traveler standard

I've been pricing out two furnishing packages for the same 2 bed unit and the gap is wider than I expected. The traveler package is around 6k, warehouse store beds, a couch that w…

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DiscussionReal Estate Debt Funds

Two funds at the same 9 percent net, and time to diligence one thing

I've got two open-end debt funds in front of me. Both residential and light commercial bridge, both quoting around 9 percent net, both open quarterly. And I've had to admit to mys…

tylerbrooks9PassivePRO430 replies

DiscussionMobile Home Parks / Manufactured Housing

44-lot park comes back legal nonconforming with no rebuild right after a casualty. How do you price a tail like that?

Zoning verification letter landed last week on a 44-lot community I've been circling. The park predates the current ordinance, so the use is legal nonconforming, and the letter sa…

nicole_adeyemiPassivePRO144 replies

DiscussionPublic REITs (Investor)

Supply falling 20 to 70 percent sounds enormous. What does that actually do to a REIT's numbers?

I read everything twice and I've read the supply argument about four times now. New deliveries in apartments, industrial, self-storage and senior housing are forecast to drop shar…

25Kkevin_lombardPG1BPRO17Answered2 replies

DiscussionPublic REITs (Investor)

If the valuation gap closes, does sector weighting actually earn its keep?

The convergence argument for 2026 into 2027 is fairly clean. REIT valuations sit near historic discounts to both broad equities and to private real estate, the private gap being t…

karen_whitfieldPG4APRO7Answered6 replies

DiscussionOff-Market Deal Sourcing

Offer range before the walkthrough, or no number until I'm inside?

I gave a range on a first call last month and it cost me the deal. Long tenure owner, absentee, house had been on a rental for years. From the data and two exterior photos I said…

omar_haddadActivePRO176 replies

LossRural Land Flipping

The access right is described in a 1978 deed and nothing since

Closed on 38 acres of mixed timber and old pasture in a low-population county at $27,500. Comps on similar acreage with clean frontage were running $1,600 to $2,000 an acre, so on…

bmoreno23AB1B5 replies

LossParking Lots / Garages

Monthly contracts fell from 71 spaces to 38 while I never repriced

Six-level garage in a secondary downtown, bought into it as a minority partner in 2021. 240 spaces, the underwriting leaned on 71 monthly contracts at $145 covering fixed costs an…

tylerbrooks9PassivePRO4Answered2 replies

DiscussionAgricultural Land / Farmland

I'm nine months out from a first farm and can't think straight about lease type

I'm probably nine months from closing on my first piece, somewhere between 80 and 120 tillable acres. Two neighbors have already told me two different things about how to lease it…

33Ttashaford30PB2APRO41 reply

DiscussionData Centers (Passive Hold)

Option payments of $250 an acre while a 4 year interconnection study runs

140 acres, a 345kV line crosses the northeast corner, and the parcel sits about 8 miles off an I-20 interchange. A developer's land team came in with an option: $250 per acre per…

nicole_adeyemiPassivePRO14Answered4 replies

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