With the increased competition, it’s also crucial to prepare your listing to stand out and work to address buyer objections prior to going on market.

I even had one slick guru recently try to sell me on creating my own course if I joined his program for $10,000 and they’d walk me through the steps of creating it and help me market it on doing LTR, and BRRRR and when I objected and said I’ve only currently got 7 buildings now with 25 units and have sold 7 over the course of years I’ve been doing it he said we’d focus on the deals I’ve been doing where I’m getting ARVs of $200,000-400,000 and not my actual numbers of properties owned.

A bit strange that you leased the commercial spaces knowing you would be pursuing a conversion but understand the objective of taking out your capital partner and I see in your follow up post the relocation language so you clearly thought through the transitional phase.

Objectively look at your property as STR>MTR>LTR, run the numbers, and see if it cash-flows.

They objectively do not have the same opportunity as Boomers did.

I do have a little objection to your "I used OPM to pay down my mortgage...plain and simple" comment, inasmuch as you still owed those "other people" all the money that they fronted you, until your money paid them off, right?

We've made a ton of offers in the area but the numbers just don't pan out with the sellers objectives.

Do I have the instincts to overcome every objects, no.

You identify the problem (lack of deposit) during your inspection phase, then hit them with an objection that requires them to pay you a deposit at closing.

Our primary objective as coaches is to help clients ask the right questions, develop the right criteria, and identify potential red flags.