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2 March 2017 | 22 replies
Driving for dollars, knocking on doors, working with a mentor, etc to raise some additional capital.
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7 April 2018 | 31 replies
You get the expense ratio down to 30% and raise the lot rent to $375.
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23 February 2017 | 13 replies
If you don’t want to manage properties or the property management company, you have a couple options. 1) Just invest passively, but if you do this you will have very little input on anything as the deal sponsor/lead investor will be the one making the decisions and you won’t be involved much in finding deals or negotiating them.2) Become a deal sponsor yourself -- where you find deals, negotiate the deal, raise money, etc…but have a partner that you trust that likes and knows how to manage the property management company.
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23 February 2017 | 14 replies
Raising rents is a good way to increase cap rate and that's easier to do if you have a bigger unit that is more attractive to long term renters and families.
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23 February 2017 | 5 replies
If you can live with yourself if that happens, great, start lower...it's almost always easier to raise your offer later than it will be to lower it (although there are ways to tie it up quickly with a high offer and then renegotiate the price during the due diligence phase, although that's an entirely different thread...)If you absolutely "must have" this property don't mess around with a super lowball offer and go with something higher.
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23 February 2017 | 7 replies
Wholesale, pick up extra shifts, work on the side, make some money as a side hustle to raise some cash.
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25 February 2017 | 22 replies
Or some external factor out of your control like a huge company moving in closeby could raise property values and rents, or an oil spill could really screw things up.
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22 February 2017 | 5 replies
You've either raised rents by rehabbing the property or putting rents to market rent, or, you've cut down expenses somehow.
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21 February 2017 | 39 replies
Have you raised the rent or did any upgrades to the property.
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24 February 2017 | 7 replies
If you think that you will raise rents on a long term tenant, wrong.