If your purchase price (always the largest expense) plus the rehab estimate (the second largest) total no more than 70% of the ARV, the remaining 30% must cover your HML charges, agent commission, property and hazard insurance, property taxes, title insurance, escrow, staging, all else, and your profit.

I’m a 21-year-old college student majoring in physics and economics, I am the president of the Commercial Real Estate Club at my University, and am preparing to enter the investment banking industry after graduation.

Now you have the largest generation in their late 30s early 40s buying their first home.

I have an IT career, but like some others, I'm looking at economics these days and realizing that I need to make a change to get to where I want to be. 

But the smaller properties (1 or 2 bed, 1,000 to 1300 sq ft) have actually continued to rise.My guess would be the people with a family of four that were coming in and staying at the larger 3 bedrooms are deciding that its more economical to just rent out the 1 or 2 bedroom places so that they can still vacation at a cabin but at a more reasonable price.Additionally, two and three years ago, the numbers on the larger ones just made more sense so people went a built a bunch of those but the small ones not so much. 

Lot split by far has largest upside, but it is also the most work with the highest cost.  

Lack of capital is my largest blocker to entering the real estate market right now, so less than 20% is appealing.

The deal is more directly impacted by macro-economic factors than anything the sponsor can control.  

My name is Josh, founder and CEO of Direct2Deals.I wanted to provide some clarity on this thread because I know there’s a bit of speculation.Direct2Deals has been in business for over 2 years and is growing into one of the largest lead generation companies in the space with over 150+ active partners.We had one client Steve, initially post on this thread about the dissatisfaction about our service.

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) has seen record enrollment in recent years: it set its highest attendance in history, with over 57,000 students enrolled and in 2024 just had highest freshman attendance in history and keeps growing, Carle Hospital, Craft Factory (Warren Buffett approves), etc for diversity of economic drivers.