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.
Mid-Term Rentals Near Hospitals: The Travel Nurse Play
How one South Florida investor swapped vacation guests for travel nurses and medical-stay patients to hit 85% occupancy on four furnished units near hospitals.
How to Manage Your Property Manager: An Owner’s Playbook
How to manage your property manager: monthly report reviews, 7-to-10-day vacancy reports, PM fee economics, and the door count where in-house wins.
Financing Small Multifamily Under $1M: The Seller Note Fix
Why commercial lenders skip sub-$1M loans, how a 20% seller-held note closes the equity gap, and the pre-closing lease trick that satisfied the bank’s occupancy rule.
Affordable Housing Development: Why Permit Delays Kill It
A house can go up in five weeks, but city approvals take six to nine months. Why entitlement delays, not build costs, kill small-scale affordable housing.
Off-Market Industrial Deals: The Building Trade-In Play
How HLI Partners sources off-market industrial deals in Orlando: the building trade-in structure, the tenant database behind it, and what running it actually costs.
Contract for Deed Investing: The $30K House Cash Flow Model
How contract for deed investing really pencils: $30K houses, $800–$1,100 buyer payments, $750 net per house — but only after the five-year private money note clears.
Buying Houses at Tax Deed Auctions: Liens, Deeds, Exits
What actually happens after you win a tax deed: deed wait times, which liens survive, the 120-day IRS redemption window, and how to exit a condemned property.
Manufactured Home Land Packages: The FHA Foundation Play
How the manufactured home land package model works: rural lot criteria, the four-month utility timeline, the FHA price band, and why cash beats hard money.
South Florida Investment Property: The Real Price Points
Real South Florida price bands: $700K average Broward homes, $400-500K Fort Lauderdale duplexes, $200K condos, and the insurance and HOA costs that kill deals.
Reinvesting Flip Profits Into Rentals: The 50/50/50 Split
Clay White splits every flip’s profit 50/50/50 — half to rental debt paydown, half split with his money partner. Here’s the structure and why it compounds.
Foundation Repair Quotes: Red Flags and the Drainage Fix
A 35-year foundation contractor names the quote line items that signal a cover-up, the exterior water fixes that come first, and how to write your own scope.
Distressed Property Lead Lists: How to Stack Filters
How to build distressed property lead lists that convert: stack physical and financial distress signals, work 500 records instead of 50,000, and script the first call.