Find Your Line!
Find Your Line!
Continuing on our Olympics of Real Estate Investing. When a Mogul contender heads down the course they are constantly having to choose a line to follow. This is impacted by visual conditions sun, wind, snow, lighting at nights. With each bump they have to be looking forward to what the next line is.
We find so many real estate investors that don’t have a plan before they get started with the property. They find a property that may even be a good deal but they don’t find their line. We have even seen real estate investors that have found a good deal that they really could of made profit with but they end up breaking even or even losing money. Why you ask? Because they never found their line.
When you are doing a rehab and retail before you are done with your due diligence, or even before you make an offer on the property you need to know A. Exactly what work you are going to do to the property B. Exactly how much the work is going to cost C. Who is going to be doing the work D. How long it will take to get the work done to the property.
No Olympic Mogul ski is going to Guess on their line. They are going to have a defined line for the first few turns before they even leave the gate. Don’t guess on repair costs, even if you have experience with repairs get the guys out that are going to be doing the work. Get firm prices from everyone that will be involved. I like to do this once I get a property under contract. We typically ask for a 48 hour time to inspect the property. During this time we set a meeting for every person that will be doing work on the property to meet at the same time. So the Flooring guy, the cabinet guy, the painter, the handyman, electrican or plumber if needed all show up at the house and look at everything and give us a price on the spot. This cuts down on back and forth of conversations and makes everything efficient. The bird dogger we buy properties from likes this as well because they know we don’t drag out the situation forever, they know that in 24 hours or 48 at most my earnest money goes hard.
Find your line by knowing what your cost will be before you leave the gate.
March 6th, 2010 at 12:08 pm
Regardless of the reasons, I think there are three items which do not bode well for commercial real estate prices in the next few years. First and perhaps most overlooked, investment or income producing properties, during the boom years, where purchased more for appreciation, rather than “income”. In other words, many deals were justified by investors who were willing to forego a rate of return (income), for future price appreciation. But as its name suggests, this is not what “income producing property” is all about. If it doesn’t give you an income stream in good times, it sure won’t be able to in bad ones. Only a “flipper” can make money on appreciation, and the trick is to know when to get in and when to get out. Second, the credit crisis has reduced the chances of obtaining loans, and also the leverage previously afforded owners/purchasers. Less money means less deals, and more cash out of pocket. This can only lead to lower prices. Third, we are for now in a “new” economy (although Americans often prove to be driven by fads and can be short sighted), where we will consume less, which should mean less need for commercial space. If there is one truth that history makes clear over and over again, it’s that most sectors of the economy will move in conjunction with one another, not in spite of one another. No doubt prices are tied to supply and demand issues, but too much of a swing invites change. So when prices double and triple in one sector while the rest of the economy isn’t going in that direction, chances are some force will snap that imbalance back into its proper place in the overall economy. And that change can be from social, economic, and/or political means.
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