The emotional support animal deal is the biggest scam around.

Hi all,I work for a large commercial GC and potentially headed out of state to St. Louis for a project we have in the pipeline. I would be there for about a year and a half on per diem and likely just make that my hom...

Hey Jerell, yes, people do this all the time, and it can work really well as long as the numbers are tight.A balloon note or hard-money loan is basically just a temporary bridge.

In most cases, Philadelphia zip codes aren’t getting priced at all right now.This looks like a temporary pause while the secondary market reassesses risk and recalibrates.

That emotional commitment matters more than people realize because this journey will stretch you but it will grow you too.I’m in Nashville and I specialize in investment real estate.

.: I include one about emotional support animals that discourages tenants from getting one without going through the proper channels that has been really helpful. 

At $2k/month, that’s $200/month or $2.4k/year, which is your stress buffer.Escalate through structure, not emotion. 

The government shut down did hurt, but rents for these types of Temporary Duty (TDY) last between 3-6 months at 2x the LTR rent sometimes more.

Builders have levers individual sellers don’t:- They can buy down rates into the mid-5s (I've seen as low as 3.875% recently in Reno, NV...) while resales sit at 6.5%+/-- They offer closing cost credits without blowing up appraisals- They price off absorption and carry costs, not emotions- They HAVE to push product, no matter the market conditionsA good number of resale sellers are still anchored to 2021–2022 pricing, and DON'T have to sell.

This caused delays for the new buyers—who were staying in temporary housing and urgently needed to close.To obtain the release needed to close the transaction, they first demanded $15,000, then $10,000, and ultimately settled at $8,000.