When you approach sellers with this mindset, you’ll go from “just another investor” to the trusted local expert who gets the deal done—time and time again. 

There’s usually not more than one investor with interest in any parcel so there’s is absolutely no incentive for the investor to pay a “wholesaler’s fee” in this scenario.In the scenario where the land is ready for development, and the economic conditions make development a profitable activity, the land owner has already been approached by the developer or multiple parties with offers to purchase.  

Can try to reposition to Class B, but neighborhood may impede these efforts.Vacancy Est: Historically 10%, but 15-20% should be used to also cover tenant nonpayment, eviction costs & damages.Tenant Pool: majority will have FICO scores of 560-620 (approaching 22% probability of default), many blemishes, but should have no evictions in last 2 years.

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Rather than investing in renovations, the value in this deal came from our strategic acquisition and resale approach.

Would this be more in line with the "gifting" approach? 

@William Bohan, Yeah, being a CA resident you'll have to do a 1031 exchange or your tax will approach 40%. 

Wrong Property Management ApproachIt doesn’t matter how good the people who are doing the property management are, if they are not using a property management approach designed for co-living, everyone loses.  

Here’s how they approached it:1.Scraping Listings: They used web scraping tools like Beautiful Soup and GPT APIs to scan Airbnb for properties in their target areas.2.Image Analysis: They trained an AI model to analyse listing photos, identifying homes with solid potential (good structure, layout, location) that were undervalued due to low-quality photos.

Can try to reposition to Class B, but neighborhood may impede these efforts.Vacancy Est: Historically 10%, but 15-20% should be used to also cover tenant nonpayment, eviction costs & damages.Tenant Pool: majority will have FICO scores of 560-620 (approaching 22% probability of default), many blemishes, but should have no evictions in last 2 years.