Playbooks from investors doing the deals
Every article starts from a real conversation on one of our shows, then gets turned into a step-by-step guide.
Tenant Screening Reports: Why Instant Checks Miss Evictions
Instant tenant screening reports miss evictions because national databases lag county courts. What a real report pulls, what it costs, and how to read it.
Big Box to Self Storage Conversion: The $30/SF Playbook
How to convert a vacant big box into climate-controlled self storage: $30–$90/sf entry, the 8.9 sq ft per capita supply screen, 60-day retrofit, and exit cap rates.
Co-GP Multifamily Deals: How a $1M LP Raise Works
How the co-GP multifamily seat actually works: the $1M raise math, LP minimums, DFW’s distressed buy window, and why the investor funnel is where new co-GPs stall.
Cost Segregation on a $320K Rental: The Actual Tax Math
A cost segregation study on a $320K rental produces about $68,000 of first-year deductions. Here’s the full math, and the 750-hour test that decides if you can use it.
Being Your Own Contractor on Rehabs: Advantages and Limits
Owning your crews cuts material costs and controls the schedule, but permit delays, tax resets and staffing still kill deals. Orlando Marrero on the real edge.
Park-Owned Homes: Cutting Expense Ratio From 78% to 39%
How WCG Investments converts park-owned homes to tenant-owned on rent-to-own contracts, cutting a 78% expense ratio to 39% — plus the deal-killers they won’t touch.
Flip Disposition Strategy: Why the Sale Decides the Deal
Cody Mills did $20M in flips in 11 months. His flip disposition strategy: two dispo agents, eight open houses in month one, and the defects you can’t market around.
Micro Resort Development: Buy Box, Capital Stack, Revenue
What a micro resort is, the buy box that makes one work, how a $5.1M capital stack came together, and where event and nightly revenue actually comes from.
Scaling a Property Management Company to 2,000 Units
Inside a 2,000-unit Bakersfield property management operation: $150K/month in fees, 34 staff, why maintenance out-earns management, and what breaks at scale.
Tokenizing Real Estate Development Capital: How It Works
How tokenized real estate development funding works: the 20–100 unit capital gap, smart-contract draw control, 2.2x target returns, and why 5 of 6 deals get rejected.
Denver Rental Property Investing: Eviction Risk and Cash Flow
What Denver rental property investing actually costs now: six-month eviction reserves, $30-40K worst cases, 20-25% down to break even, and DSCR vs Fannie pricing.
How to Lease Vacant Office Space: Spec Suites That Work
Why big raw office blocks sit while sub-8,000 sf finished suites lease fast, what a spec suite build costs you, and when office-to-medical conversion pencils.