Your "value add" is increasing Net Operating Income by increasing revenue and decreasing expenses the best you can.

Most sellers get comfortable when they know they’re secured like a bank would be, and you’re showing you’re staying current on insurance and taxes.The biggest thing is making the payoff timeline match real life rehab timing with some cushion, because that’s where deals get stressful if you’re tight.

When you systemize them, rent stays consistent and stress disappears.Here’s how we manage it efficiently across a growing portfolio:1.

From my perspective, this is usually a sign of one of 2 things: 1) a market in repair where banks are starting to loosen things because they feel more comfortable with stability in the market or 2) banks are desperate for more business/volume so they are underwriting risky loans to keep volume flowing.The timing of some of these coming back and the very slow roll outs right now feel like cautious optimism that the market is showing signs of stabilizing, and there has been a decent amount of positive tailwind data (for mortgages, not necessarily for the economy); between slight increases in unemployment and reported slight decreases in inflation. 

With 10 years of experience running a national membership organization for recovery housing operators and a PhD dissertation (and eleven published books) on recovery housing--I cannot stress enough the importance of accurate information.1.

Took a lot of work and stress to get to this point but all worth it!

Selling would reset our finances, relieve stress, and give us capital for a multifamily purchase, but I don’t want to prematurely give up an appreciating OC asset. 

and Turned It Into a $269K WinEvery investor has that one horror story — the contractor who disappears mid-job, the project that goes sideways, and the numbers that stop making sense.One of our investors recently lived it.They were over-leveraged, stressed, and had already lost $30,000 to a contractor who never finished the work.

Guest behavior often tells a different story.Comfort Directly Impacts ReviewsComfort influences:- Sleep quality- Daily usability- Stress levelsThese elements appear repeatedly in positive reviews and repeat bookings.Research from the broader hospitality industry consistently shows that negative guest feedback is most often tied to comfort failures: poor sleep, cleanliness issues, excessive noise, or temperature problems rather than the absence of luxury amenities.

We are trying to increase volume (and not decrease quality), I do not want good deals to pass us by because we don't have the funds on deck...