HeyJared5-Minute PRIME: Bite-Sized Investing Insights
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FHA Approved You. Will It Approve the Building? (opens the original)
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There is a version of the first-deal story that everybody tells. You fix your credit, you save the down payment, you get pre-approved, and the only thing left is finding the building. That story is missing a step. On a three- or four-unit FHA purchase, the loan runs a second test — and it isn't about you. It's about whether the building's own rent can carry the payment. Your file can be spotless and the deal can still die on a number you never saw, produced by somebody you never met. In t...
You Verified the Property Tax. Why Isn't It Your Number? (opens the original)
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You are eleven days into diligence on a Florida rental and you have done the careful thing. You did not take the broker's word for the property tax. You pulled it off the county's own parcel page — $4,392 a year — and underwrote that. The number is right. The county will bill exactly that. And it is still not your number. In this episode of the 5-Minute PRIME Podcast, host Martin Maxwell walks through the three options on the table and shows why a figure from an independent, authoritative s...
Property Tax Knocked a Top-10 Metro to 48th. Is It Yours? (opens the original)
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Two metros. One of them screens tenth-best in the country on rent-to-price. The other screens fifty-second. Run the same two through one more line — a line published by the federal government, free, for every county in America — and the tenth-place metro finishes forty-eighth, while the fifty-second finishes thirty-second and walks straight past it. Nothing about either property changed. Neither rent moved. Neither price moved. The only thing that happened is that somebody counted the prope...
Half a Kitchen Got Most of the Rent. What Did the Other Half Buy? (opens the original)
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The tenant handed back the keys on Tuesday. The unit is clean, structurally fine, and dated — original oak cabinets, a laminate counter, appliances from 2011. It rented at $1,350 against a metro median of $1,474, so you already know why it sat at the bottom of its comps. Your contractor quotes $9,500 for a full kitchen: eighteen extra vacant days, and about $175 a month more in rent. Run the payback and it comes to 4.9 years. That's fine. Most operators sign there. Then he mentions there'...
A Week of Work. A Month of Vacancy. Which Days Are Yours? (opens the original)
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A unit turn takes about a week of actual work. The unit sits empty for about a month. Almost every operator spends their energy on the week — chasing the contractor, arguing about the paint, checking whether the flooring crew showed up — and almost none of it on the other three weeks, which is where the money actually went. The federal number says the average American rental is vacant about 7.3% of the time. Run that against a calendar and it works out to roughly 27 days a year, every year,...
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