All Forum Posts by: Keith Miller

Our next Missoula Real Estate Meetup will be on July 16th, and our speaker is Connor McMahon from Sterling CRE. Connor has extensive experience as a Commercial Real Estate Agent, and Sterling CRE does an excellent job of gathering current data. He will share updated data on the Missoula market across all asset classes, with a particular focus on multifamily.

Hope to see you there!

The Missoula Real Estate Meetup has three main goals:1. Learn more about the Missoula Market2. Make authentic connections3. Share strategies and information

As always, there will be no selling of any products or services, and it's always free to attend.

We meet the third Tuesday of every month at the Highlander, at 6:00 PM. We usually have 30-40 attendees.

I run the meetup in Missoula and would recommend Professional Property Management, or Plum, they're two of the best from my experience. 

Our speaker this month is Jared Kuehn. 

A highly recommended commercial lender with First Security Bank, Jared knows the ins and outs of securing loans. He will share common issues investors run into, and identify successful strategies in this unique market.

The Missoula Real Estate Meetup has three main goals:

1. Learn more about the Missoula Market

2. Make authentic connections

3. Share strategies and information

As always, there will be no selling of any products or services, and it's always free to attend.

We meet the third Tuesday of every month at the Highlander, at 6:00 PM. We usually have 30-40 attendees.

Our speaker this month is Sarah Kassem. Sarah is a coastal and river engineer with over 10 years of experience in flooding analysis and mapping. She will be discussing flood hazard and climate change considerations for real estate investing and development, give an overview of the FEMA flood insurance program and how to access and read flood maps. She will also go over flooding issues specific to Missoula and talk about things to look for when assessing flood risk at your property.

The Missoula Real Estate Meetup has three main goals:

1. Learn more about the Missoula Market

2. Make authentic connections

3. Share strategies and information

As always, there will be no selling of any products or services, and it's always free to attend.

We meet the third Tuesday of every month at the Highlander, at 6:00 PM. We usually have 30-40 attendees.

Thanks for all of the advice and feedback, I really appreciate it! I'll talk to you soon 

@Chris Gray

Our speaker this month is Josh Plum. He is a Broker and owner of Point 6 Real Estate, as well as a co-owner of Plum Property Management, one of Missoula's largest property management companies. As both a Broker and a property manager, he has an excellent sense of the current state of the market. He also puts together the annual Housing Report for MOR and will be sharing the report's information on current vacancies, market rents, etc., in Missoula County.

As always, we're at the Highlander Brewery, 6 PM, on 3/19. 

The Missoula Real Estate Meetup has three main goals:

1. Learn more about the Missoula Market

2. Make authentic connections

3. Share strategies and information

As always, there will be no selling of any products or services, and it's always free to attend.

We meet the third Tuesday of every month at the Highlander, at 6:00 PM. We usually have 30-40 attendees.

I've got a question that I'm hoping you weigh in on. I'm a realtor here in Missoula, and I'm planning a large subdivision project with a partner of mine in nearby town, we'd be selling roughly 200 homes. I am an agent, but a relatively new one, and so I'm hoping you can help me think this through and offer some advice. 

With each home selling for around $250K, the selling commissions add up to $1.25 million (at 2.5%). That's a pretty sizable chunk of money, so my partner and I are trying to think through the best way to structure the selling process, and I'm wondering what you'd do in my shoes. We've considered the two options:

1. Bringing the sales "In-House" into our company, and I would earn the commission. Then, I'd hire a full-time salesperson to be on the ground, who we'd ideally pay a commission to.

2. We sign with a local broker, and negotiate a smaller commission.

Do you have any recommendations for which option to choose? Just looking for advice here, any thoughts are greatly appreciated!

Well we're still in the early stages, but we're hoping to build workforce housing to address the lack of reasonably priced new homes. Still haven't locked the land up yet though, so we'll see!

Welcome Trish! I'm a big fan of PBurg, working on a land development there actually. You've got a great home turf!