Purchase price: $328,000 Off market 4 plex in paseo arts district area What made you interested in investing in this type of deal?

Purchase price: $196,600 Cash invested: $196,600 Historic Adobe in North Downtown Albuquerque.80 year old, fully remodeled home in a gentrifying area of town.

Unfortunately in her art studio and much of her material is destroyed.

See Brandon is on the opposite spectrum from me.His bread and butter is managing and mine is selling.That's like me putting in a clause that if you buy through me you have to choose me to manage it and the fees will be really fat.I don't manage because I don't like it and I love the art of the deal.I wouldn't force myself onto a buyer or seller for management when it's not my forte.

Austin currently houses offices for Apple, Paypal, Electronic Arts, Google, Intel, Dell Computer, IBM, National Instruments, Xerox, Silicon Labs, Applied Materials, Rackspace, Yodle, HomeAway and many smaller start-ups.  

Hi Art, Congrats on deciding to purchase a property. 

We don't have deals killed because of the color of the cabinets or other fickleness.We are able to develop strong relationships with our clientsWe get repeat businessWe are numbers/systems people, not interior designers or therapists.Selling retail flips is not an easy business and an art in itself.  

The best part being the "Art of the Deal"  Unless I have information that shows an offer will be totally rejected I say "Make An Offer"   Why would they not try to acquire the property themselves 'So what's wrong with it?'

Originally posted by Art G.

Good comps are nearly irrefutable so if you have good comps and a decent lender to negotiate value using appraisers formulas for determining value you can almost always get the appraiser to come up or meet you near where "value," should be.This is where the science of appraisal meets the arts of persuasion.