BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast - 805: 2 “Cash Flow” Housing Markets That Are On Track for Big Growth w/Brandon Ribeiro and Peter Stewart

Episode Date: August 15, 2023

Think every housing market is too expensive to buy in? Think again. We’re going over two of the country’s biggest cash flow housing markets and showing why they may be your next best bet when buying rental property. And while, traditionally, cash flow real estate markets have been associated with constant turnover, low appreciation, and consistent headaches, these two markets defy the odds—if you know where to buy. Peter Stewart, Indianapolis agent and investor, is on today to discuss why his underrated but surprisingly lucrative housing market deserves your dollars. He’s got clients doing BRRRRs, flips, and regular rental properties with crazy cash flow numbers and returns in the triple-digit percentages! Then we talk to Brandon Ribeiro, Philadelphia commercial agent who recently scored his buyer a rock-bottom mortgage rate (3%!) that will double the cash flow on his newest property. Interested in investing in markets like this? Need a local expert to guide you through the buying process? Check out BiggerPockets Agent Finder to connect with an expert agent in your area. It’s completely free, and you’ll get matched with experts who can talk about cash flow, not just granite countertops. In This Episode We Cover: Two cash flow real estate markets with strong signs for buyers  The market metrics you MUST look at before buying in ANY area  The “danger” of investing in cash flow areas and what you MUST avoid when doing so The 130% cash-on-cash return BRRRR that you can buy in THIS market  How to lock down a rock-bottom mortgage rate with seller-financing And So Much More! Links from the Show Find an Agent Find a Lender BiggerPockets Youtube Channel BiggerPockets Forums BiggerPockets Pro Membership BiggerPockets Bookstore BiggerPockets Bootcamps BiggerPockets Podcast BiggerPockets Merch Listen to All Your Favorite BiggerPockets Podcasts in One Place Learn About Real Estate, The Housing Market, and Money Management with The BiggerPockets Podcasts Get More Deals Done with The BiggerPockets Investing Tools Find a BiggerPockets Real Estate Meetup in Your Area David's BiggerPockets Profile David's Instagram David’s YouTube Channel Work with David Rob's BiggerPockets Profile Rob's Instagram Rob's TikTok Rob's Twitter Rob's YouTube Book Mentioned in the Show: Buy, Rehab, Rent, Refinance, Repeat by David Greene Connect with Brandon & Peter: Brandon's BiggerPockets Profile Brandon's Instagram Brandon's Website Peter's BiggerPockets Profile Peter's Facebook Peter's Instagram Click here to listen to the full episode: https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/real-estate-805 Interested in learning more about today’s sponsors or becoming a BiggerPockets partner yourself? Email [e-mail]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is the Bigger Pockets podcast show 805. I'm based in Indianapolis, Indiana. Right now, what's popular, Burrs for sure. We have a lot of areas in transition. So that gives a wide margins. You've got these neighborhoods that are kind of old, and you're getting the investors coming in. So you've got a lot of spread there.

So that allows the burrs to work out pretty well. If you want to do flips, the unique thing about Philadelphia is that is one of the oldest cities in the country. So there's tons of distressed properties that you could acquire and flip. I'm getting excited just hearing you say this, man. That's so hard to find right now. What's going on, everyone? It's David Green, your host of the Bigger Pockets Real Estate podcast here with Rob,

Abas Solo, the co-host. Rob, how are you today? Very good, very good. It is warm in Houston. I don't know if you know this, but it's like I'm basically, I live in a swimming pool. Yeah, I did know that. Yeah, walking from my back door to my studio, which is only about 10 feet, I'm able to shed two pounds of water weight, which is always a great benefit.

But then I find myself getting dehydrated in the middle of the Bigger Pockets podcast. So, you know, one of these days I may pass out. It's part of the price you pay to be an NPC bikini competitor, man. So just deal with it. I guess so. I guess so. Yep. Now, in today's show, we are going to get into two agents who are crushing it in their markets.

Peter Stewart and Brandon Ribeiro in Indianapolis and Philadelphia, respectively. They share information about what's going on in their market, what strategies are working, what kind of growth is happening, as well as how they put deals together for their clients. So if you want to learn how to find deals in your market or find a financial, new market to get into. You should love today's episode. Rob, what do you think people should keep an eye out for to help them in their investing journey? So this was actually packed with so much more gold because we're not just going to talk about their market, but we're actually going to talk about all the metrics that sort of define like what makes a healthy market,

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That's Indeed.com slash rookie. Terms and conditions apply. Hiring Indeed is all you need. Peter Stewart and Brandon Ribeiro. Welcome to The Bigger Pockets podcast. A little background on you two clever, creative, and awesome real estate agents. Peter Stewart started investing in 2011. He's got properties in four states, including Indianapolis, California, Tennessee, and Florida. Occasionally he flips when the right deal crosses his path, mostly long term and a few short-term rentals, and he's done 54 deals so far this year. Peter, I'm assuming those are real estate agent

deals? Correct. Yeah, both buyer and seller side. Wow, that's awesome. Awesome. So for those that are unfamiliar, that is a lot. That would put him into the Asbatador category. So well done. Appreciate that. And then Brandon Ribeiro has spent four years investing, has a killer haircut as well as beer that makes him look very handsome, high quality man here. He's got four properties, which are a mix of short-term rental and long-term rentals. He's done four flips. He is on pace to do 30 to 40 deals this year. And he recently partnered up to expand the level of service that has company can provide if you guys want to see what I'm talking about with Brandon. Check us out on Bigger Pocket's YouTube channel. Brandon, welcome to the show. First off, do you feel like your hair

and beard combination are responsible for your success in real estate? Absolutely. Yeah, I just wanted to match you. So I did this before I hopped on the call. You took it serious, literally following the mentor, right? Yeah. That's commitment. There's probably some psychology behind that. Like, we're more likely to help people that we relate to. And I cannot help but relate to, oh, this is exactly what my face looks like. Yeah, I think it just looks more professional this way. Yeah, that's a great point. Now, I understand that you reached out to me on Instagram several years ago, and that I was indirectly responsible for all of your real estate success. Can you share with our audience how that works so that they can skip the hard work and the grind and just take the elevator? Yeah, so long story short, I was just looking for some guidance around the brokerage side of real estate, which, you know, obviously if everybody's listened to bigger pockets, you know that David's a broker and has been an agent and a broker for years. So naturally, I graviness. towards David's Instagram account, and I reached out to him just for some general advice on, you know, how to seek out brokers, how to really kind of vet them out and figure out what's the

best fit. David gave me a couple pieces of advice, so I kind of took it and ran with it. And yeah, that's kind of where I'm at today. Well, congratulations on that. I'm glad to meet you in person and have both of you on the show, because as each of you know, and probably Rob, too, there is a large need for good real estate agents in our industry. Probably 98% of them are not very good. So when you get a good one, it helps a lot. You know, before we move on, Rob, I just want to ask you, remember when we were buying the Scottsdale house?

Like, what was your overall kind of perspective on how hard it is to find a good agent and maybe how knowing what agents should do can give you an advantage when you're the buyer working in the deal? Yeah, I think always sourcing an agent is tough if you don't have any cost. contacts in the market, right? And it was really the first time, I think, for both of us getting into that market. Luckily, I was able to skip all the in-between kind of hard work of finding realtors by taking your advice. You told me to go find the biggest, baddest brokerage, and then just ask them who their best agent was. And that's what I did. And they actually set me up with somebody

who was not the best agent, but he was like, hey, my guy over here actually is the best agent for this specific thing. Let me set you up. And I feel like we got, we got. It was like luck meets opportunity, right? Like we knew what we were looking for. We found somebody. He was super versed in that specific niche and helped us get the deal to the finish line. Yeah. And then when we were negotiating with them, there was some coaching that I was doing because I'm an agent.

So I was like, hey, let's say this. And then you kind of saw that that worked. I was just curious if you had this like, man, it's a big difference between an agent who's good and an agent who's not. And if that might have been different than what you thought before about the house. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, it's always an interesting. Everyone's different, right? everyone kind of does things a little bit different.

For me, it's always like, if someone is responsive, we'll do the direction and the coaching and we'll find the deal usually. And that's pretty much how it usually shakes out. And speaking of deals, we're going to talk about some deals today. But before we get into them, let's get to know the markets that these two are in. So I'm going to start with you, Peter. What are some of the long-term benefits to your market? And what is your market?

Great. So great question. So I'm based in Indianapolis, Indiana. So I'll say some of the long-term benefits here. So number one, our market is a very stable market, not volatile at all. So when you see all these market shifts, we don't really feel them. We're one of the last markets to feel them. So you have stability there. A very diverse set of large employers. We're not really relying on one industry. Indy's a capital city. It's the 16th largest in the country. So we've got those

large city amenities, but it still has that kind of small town feel. We've got a strong rental market. In fact, last year, the renter-occupied households accounted for about 44% of all households in the Indy Metro area, which is about 1.9 million people, not the percentage, but the total in Indy Metro. Very low barriers to entry to our market. And also, more importantly, though, there's a lot of growth and development that's happening in Indianapolis. I mean, I'm born and raised here, and pretty much my entire life, the city has been growing and expanding. There's a ton of huge projects in the works, you know, multi-billion-dollar projects all over the city. Lots of large companies base here. So again, that adds to that stability and the diversity.

obviously lots of large companies mean high-paying jobs, meaning renters and people to buy as well. So it just provides a lot of opportunity compared to some of the markets that may be either declining or stagnant. So, Peter, what are you seeing as far as population shifts? Are people moving into your area or leaving? Great question. So in Indianapolis itself, we have been experiencing a slight population decline over the last few years, but that decline is slowing down. and the Indianapolis metro area, which is kind of Indianapolis in the surrounding ring of cities, has been experiencing growth, not tremendous growth, but it's been averaging about 1.25% per year. All right. And then what's the economic engine that's driving the area? That's always one of the first questions I ask an agent when I'm looking to move into a new area, do some long distance real estate investing. I want to know, well, what do people do for work here and what causes wages to rise? One of the big things, one of the big drivers in Indianapolis is the development that's been happening downtown.

So when I was a kid, the downtown was kind of a scary place. You know, you went there if you worked and that was about it. Today, it's a destination. I mean, we've got two major sports teams down there, Colts and the Pacers with Gangebridge Fieldhouse, Lucas Oil Stadium. We've got a huge convention center that's about to undergo a, I think it's a $3 billion expansion. Or no, sorry, $800 million expansion. Lots of big companies are based in Indianapolis, many Fortune 500 companies. And Salesforce occupies our largest tower.

Eli Lilly is downtown. We've got Simon Property Group, Cummins, Allison Transmission, Rolls-Roy's, Roche Diagnostics, and many, many others. So a lot of big businesses, again, over a diverse set of industries, are based in India. And there's a lot of huge projects, you know, moving things along to one example in an area called Fisher's, which is one of the cities in the Indianapolis metro area outside of Indianapolis itself. Andretti, Mike, Mario, whatever, one of the Andretti's, their global company is building headquarters. There's like $200 million development. We've got our Indy 11 sports team. They're, excuse me, soccer team. They are our minor league soccer team. They're building a

billion dollar stadium downtown. So this is a couple examples, but a ton of things like that are happening all over the city, which again, you know, driving people coming to the city and lots of high paying jobs as well as keeping that engine running. And of course, you know, we've got the Indianapolis 500 too. Can't forget about that. Yeah, it's a big one. Yeah, might have heard of it. I haven't heard of the other 499, for whatever reason, I only hear about the 500th one. Like the David Green 23s that came before David Green 24. Never hear of them. They're just urban legends. So, Peter, why should people consider Indianapolis? So number one, like I mentioned before, not to sound like being a dead horse here, but a very stable market. So we've got a lot of stability here. It's not a

volatile market at all. Again, diverse set of employers. It's a large city. We have a large population. Indianapolis itself is about 900,000 in the metro area. is 1.9 million or so. Again, strong rental market. It's very easy to get around town. We're a grid city. So most streets run north, southeast, and west. We've got a great freeway system. So it makes the entire city very accessible and easy to get to it any time of day. We've got very low barriers to entry in Indianapolis. I mean, our prices are very affordable compared to a lot of the rest of the country. For a couple hundred thousand dollars, you can buy a nice cash-loading duplex. And around the west coast, you know, you can't get a garage for $200,000. So,

So it just opens it up to a lot of people. And because of the diversity, because of the low barriers to entry, it allows for many different strategies from the investment perspective. I mean, you can do flips, you can do burrs, long-term buy-in-holds, short-term, medium-term rentals, new construction, land development. Pretty much every strategy that exists here in this investing world can be done in Indy. So it just allows, you know, it's not restrictive at all and allows for people, even who may not have a lot of money to get into real estate investing. So a lot of options from the very

beginner, newbie to the very advanced investor who's been doing it for many years, many options all across the board for people. Well, you need garages to park all those cars that are out there for the Indy 500. That is true. All 500 of them. All right. Do you have any data on the current shifts in your market? Like what's going on as far as days on market prices? They move it up. They move it down. Are they stable? What's happening? Days on market for, for a, Marin County, which is Indianapolis, across all property types, year-over-year data, days on the market is seven. That's up 40% from a year ago. So while it is, you know, days on market are extending, it's still, you know, historically speaking, very, very low,

well below our average. I mean, a week on the market is incredibly fast. Yeah, it's not bad. Not bad at all. So it's up 40%. So does that mean that days on market last year was like four days? Four. Yep. Nice. Exactly. In terms of inventory, definitely. We're definitely seeing that increase. The number of units sold is down 16% year to date or from a year ago. We've got 1.4 months of inventory. That is up 45% from a year ago. So do the math there.

And yeah, we had 0.7 months of inventory last year at the kind of the peak of the bubble or whatever you want to call it. And our active inventory is up 22% from a year ago as well. Also, one more stat. The number of new listings is down 23%. So our inventory is lower, but it's up 13% from the prior month. So we're starting to see a little bit of a shift up there. Can you go back to that stat that you said after days on market, you said the inventory went up to over a year? Yeah, can you clarify that a little bit?

So currently we have 1.4 months of the inventory. Okay, so what does that mean? So basically when you look at the inventory levels, when you see that statistic, what that means is how many properties sell in a given market and then, or excuse me, how many are active divided by how many sells. So as an example, if I'm in a neighborhood that sells one property, or excuse me, 12 properties per year, so 12 homes in a neighborhood sell per year, that averages out to one per month. So we look at what's called the absorption rate. So that market absorbs approximately one home per month. So if one home comes on the market, you divide one by one. Essentially, you have one month of inventory because at least on paper,

that should sell within a month. So what that 1.4 month of inventory statistics says, that, again, on paper, it doesn't necessarily translate to the real world, but on paper, if nothing else came on the market in Indianapolis, in 1.4 months, everything would be sold. So we use the level of inventory to determine what kind of, well, one of the metrics to determine what kind of market you're in. So zero to four months of inventory, the lower amount is a seller's market. So that's what that tells us. Four to six months is typically considered a balanced market. Six and above would be considered a buyer's market. So at 1.4, we're still a pretty strong seller's market. Which is the case in,

most of the popular markets around the country right now. We typically have the issue of not enough supply, but steady or even rising sometimes demand. So that's the indication that the market is healthy when you see that there's a low amount of inventory. It would take a long time. If it took a long time to sell all the inventory that's out there, that usually leads the prices dropping because it shows that there's more supply than demand.

So thanks for breaking that down. And so you would definitely consider it a seller's market currently. What strategies are working in your market today? Is this something you can just go in there and write an offer and get a house? Or do people need to think about this a little deeper? Sure. Great question. I mean, so, yeah, you are correct.

We are absolutely in the seller's market. I mean, you know, the low days on market. We have a 99.7% list the sales price ratio on average. And again, the low inventory. So what that means is that if it's listed at 100,000 is typically an average selling for about 97,000. So it's selling a little bit below asking price, right? A 0.3% below, but yeah.

Right. A little bit less. Very, very, yeah. So, yeah, strong sellers market. So in regards to the strategies that work here, again, as I mentioned before, you can do everything here for the most part. Right now, what's popular, Burrs for sure, because again, we have a lot of areas in transition, especially around our downtown. So that gives a wide margins. You've got these neighborhoods that are kind of old, run down, and you're getting the investors coming in, building new or doing it to the studs remodels.

They have the very high value. So you got a lot of spread there. So that allows the, you know, the burrower. to work out pretty well. Do you see that creating sort of an environment where overall prices are steadily creeping up because people are coming in and they're getting higher appraisals on the existing inventory after they fix it up? Yeah, a little bit. I mean, our median sales price has gone up a 1.6% since last June. So, you know, not a ton, but yes, it is still creeping up a little bit. We have had a little, you know, a few appraisal problems here and there. But for the most part,

yeah, because we get a lot of new construction in these areas. And again, those high, high ARV flips. So, and there's a lot of that activity going. So we have enough data to help support these numbers. But every once in a while, yeah, you'll get that person who tries to, you know, outprice everyone else. And sometimes you can run into appraisal problems, but pretty rare in most of those areas. All right. Now, Peter, I don't mean to put you on the spot before we move into Brandon, but everyone listening to this right now is like sitting at the edge of their seat saying, why hasn't David asked it? I am notorious for throwing Indiana under the bus when it comes to bad markets to invest in. And you're actually giving me a chance to clarify my position here. I will say

things like the Midwest or Indiana as stereotypically bad markets to go. Now here's what I mean when I say that. Very cheap homes, 40,000, $50,000 homes in D-class areas that should never be considered other than the fact they are cheap. So what happens is new investors who don't know anything assume cheap equals low risk. They have high price to rent ratios that appear to make them strong investment. they talk about it will cash flow really strong because on the spreadsheet that doesn't account for vacancies and turns and disasters that account they look really strong and then the new investors who don't know any better follow that little mermaid out into the ocean where they are grabbed and drowned and then they can't get out of it and then they got to sell to some other sucker

who comes along if you're talking about $200,000 homes right off the bat we're not in the category of homes that I'm warning people to avoid so can you give a little bit of a defense for why you think Indianapolis could be a high growth market and then maybe what properties to avoid and what properties you would be leading your clients into if they wanted to invest there. Excellent question. So first, right off the bat, you are absolutely correct. The properties you're talking about are junk. I avoid those. I tell everyone in my initial consultation, number one, I don't service D class areas. I don't service anything under about $100,000. That just sort of by default eliminates most of the D class because there are those $40, $50, $60,000 houses out there and they're junk.

They are in rough neighborhoods. The houses themselves, the construction is poor at best. So I don't even sell those. I don't mess with them at all. But yes, you're right on the surface. They do sound very attractive. And I get those calls every once in a while. I see that $50,000 house that rents for $800, well over the 1% rule. But yeah, they don't see all the negatives on the back end. So I typically, in our initial consult that I have with new clients, I will discuss all that and go over that with them and steer them away from that. Most of my clients are usually, again, from the investment perspective, of course, it depends on what you're doing. But most land in the $100,000 to $300,000 range C class type areas.

Again, the C class is where most of the investor, you know, action happens to beat up. Can people expect rent appreciation or price appreciation? Or is this something where you really want to go in and get a good deal when you buy? Because you're probably not going to see equity growth over time. It depends on what area you're in. And I say that because if you're in the suburbs and the more established areas, you're not going to get that rapid appreciation. It's, again, that slow and steady, kind of, you know, rising with the market in general. But there is still appreciation here. However, you see the more rapid appreciation in those

areas in transition, the ones that are, you know, all the buzzword, the gentrification, revitalization, the path of progress. We have a lot of those neighborhoods, and they're all surrounding downtown for the most part. So there's tremendous growth in some of those areas. I'll give you a quick example. On the near west side of town, which historically was very rough. There's a company called Alonco. They announced they're building their global headquarters there is about $180 million or so development. And that was announced maybe three years ago. They broke around about a year ago. I've seen prices triple in that neighborhood in the past two years. Homes were $50,000, $60,000 then, and now they're 150 starting. That is an extreme

example, but one of many. Because again, 10 years ago in a lot of these neighborhoods, $100,000 is probably the highest sale. When today you go into some of these neighborhoods that have really taken off and there's five, six, seven, eight, sometimes even million dollar homes in those in those neighborhoods. So that is quite a bit of appreciation within Indianapolis. Yeah, that's a lot. I'm assuming that some of the surrounding areas outside of Indy, maybe some of those suburbs or like satellite cities, you're not getting the same type of growth. It depends. So if you're familiar with Indianapolis at all, it looks like a big circle. And then you've got a ring of cities around that circle. once you get beyond that ring of cities, you're basically in the cornfields,

and those are the areas I would avoid. There we go. You're not seeing the growth. Now, until you get to some other markets like with college towns, like Bloomington, with Indiana University or Lafayette with Purdue. But those ring of cities have actually been, number one, the population growth is happening there, but there's been tremendous development in those areas, too. As an example, Westfield, which is kind of north-ish, northwest-ish of Indianapolis,

is the sixth fastest-growing city in the country right now. When I was a kid, it was cornfields and a Walmart, and today it's one of the best places to live. It's amazing homes, amazing parks, trails, schools, amenities, everything's there. Fisher's, same thing. It's on the northeast-ish side of town. It wasn't even its own city until 2010. And today, its population is about to surpass Carmel, which is where I live. I say Indianapolis, but most people don't know where Carmel is just north of Indy.

Tremendous growth. Tons of huge companies move in there. So, no, it's absolutely happening. On the west side, you've got areas like Avon and Brownsburg. Again, when I was a kid, I didn't even know those cities existed. Today, people are moving out of the city to those areas because of all the growth and development happening. They've got great schools, very safe, clean, et cetera.

So, yeah, as long as you stay, you know, kind of close to Indy as a lifeline almost, you're good, but you do need to be careful once you get outside of that into the more rural areas. There you go. That's really good advice right there. So now people know when I say, don't buy an Indianapolis or don't buy an Indiana, I should say, or don't buy the Midwest. It doesn't mean don't buy anywhere there. It means don't be fooled into $45,000, $3% rule property that you're going to wander into and like a Venus fly trap.

You can never get out of it. It's sort of like, you're, you're Mufasa and you've got your arm around Rob right now. And you're like, do you see that shadowy place over there outside the ring of Indianapolis? You must never go there. That is the realm of the enemy. Yes. Yeah. And if it's any town that has like one stop sign in it, probably avoid that. The stop sign ratio. That could be a new metric that we can start talking about, right? The stop sign rule. Well, you know, there's a Chick-fil-A rule, like invest within a mile of a Chick-fil-A, and then there's like, yeah, the stop sign rule. I like it. All right. Thank you for that, Peter. Brandon, turning to you. What are the long-term benefits of your market? Yeah, so Philadelphia is uniquely situated, you know, just about two hours south of New York, just west of New Jersey and north of the D.C. metro area. And so all three of those markets,

are incredibly expensive. So a majority of my clients actually come from those markets, specifically New York. So the bear's entry in those markets are obviously high. Taxes are high, not as landlord-friendly. So naturally, the next stop is going to be Philadelphia. So that's kind of where most of my clients end up coming from. All right. And then talking population shifts, are people moving into that area? Are they moving out? What's going on with the growth? Yeah. So a lot of our developer clients are seeing some great success in occupying their multifamily development projects. We have a few several hundred unit developments currently in progress. A lot of them completely leased out in the pre-leasing stage.

So I'm seeing a pretty steady population growth on our end in the Philadelphia market. There's some push towards the suburbs north of Philadelphia as well and west. And the market demand in those markets is two times what it was just a few years ago. So a lot of people are pushing to be in the better school districts, the main lines of market, just outside of Philly, probably 20-minute drive into the city. That has a very strong demand for housing. I have a couple higher-end flip clients that love that area. You know, they could put their higher-end finishes and they'll always see the return on it. So the demand for the housing has been steady.

During COVID, obviously there was a mass exodus. Everybody wanted to get out of the cities. So what I'm seeing in what I read, the research, the blogs and all that stuff is actually holding true. So what they're saying is that the COVID market, you saw a surge in Airbnb's. You saw a surge in the rural markets. And pre-COVID those markets are taking a hit. So Philadelphia is like the opposite. So everybody wanted to leave the city.

And now that COVID is over, everybody's coming back. So it's very strong rental demand, very strong housing demand too. Isn't that funny? That's the same thing that we saw in some of the big cities in California. Yeah. I guess before, I know I'm going a bit of a tangent here, it's just a pattern I've noticed in real estate that people can take advantage of if they pay attention to this. Before COVID, all of the development was happening in big cities in downtown areas. Huge cranes in Seattle, Austin, San Francisco. You couldn't avoid seeing tons of these properties being built in the inside of the city near all of the amenities. Like millennials didn't want to have cars. They didn't want to have to cook. and there was no stoves in properties because they just ate out every day. And they were all tech companies were moving into these areas and paying high rents because that's where people wanted to live. And it led to the increase in Uber.

Like you kind of saw all of the technology centered around this. And then COVID came and all the restaurants shut down and all the fun things to do shut down. And you were cooped up in your 400 square foot condo with two other people. And it's no longer fun to live there because you're sleeping on a couch, but you're outside of your house. You're stuck in the house. So we saw a flood of people going out.

to the suburbs, like you just said. I want a bigger house. I want more space. It went from very tough to sell stuff in San Francisco to the East Bay where the bigger houses were, oh, man, it was like impossible to put anyone in contract there because there was such a movement. And then after things changed when COVID opened up, San Francisco itself hasn't bounced back because of what you guys see in the news. But your typical big city that's run a little better, they've got all the people getting sucked right back in there. And if you can notice these patterns, you can buy in the area where nobody else was. That's kind of how I got my two Kihei condos in Maui.

I got really good prices because I bought them when COVID hit and no one was traveling to Maui. Right. So these short-term rental operators were bleeding for months because they had zero revenue when they couldn't sell. And I went there and bought them when nobody else was. And then when COVID turned around and they would let people come in with a test, they gained like $400,000 in like six months.

It was crazy how fast that came. So studying these patterns. can help you buy in the emerging market. I appreciate you sharing that brand. It sounds like you kind of understand what's going on in your market. Why should people consider Philly? So kind of alluding to what I just talked about, it's actually pretty similar to the to Peters market, which is kind of interesting, but there's a little bit of differences. So Philadelphia is a very block by block city. I think it's super critical to if you want to invest in Philly and you're not familiar with the Philadelphia market, I think it's very critical

to find somebody that thoroughly understands the market in the most in-depth way possible. So it's very easy to get attracted to a property because of its purchase price or its sales price. But that could be in a neighborhood that you probably don't want to be in. For many reasons, safety, you know, one of them. So there's lots of strategies that can be applied to Philadelphia market. The one that I'm seeing work best right now, just because it's the most prevalent one, is house hacking.

But Philadelphia, you can apply all the different strategies depending on where you go. So if you want to do flips, the unique thing about Philadelphia is that is one of the oldest cities in the country. So there's tons of distressed properties, tons of dilapidated properties that you can obviously, you know, acquire and flip. I'm excited just hearing you say this, man. Yeah. It's so hard to find right now.

Rob, would you agree? It's so hard to find a market that still has properties that can be fixed up and value added to them. 100%, especially when like there's a lot of the. You know, it feels like I'm always searching for that here in Houston, and it's a giant city. It's, I think, probably pretty close to the size of Philadelphia. But yeah, man, I feel like that inventory gets slimmer and slimmer. So you really have to go, like, hunting these days.

I just realized how rare it is to hear it when you said that I'm like, what this used to be like, like, I'm a dog like its ears perk up or like you smell food. I didn't hear you give the Scooby sound just a second ago. Because I, frankly, I ruined my own market for myself when I started doing the podcast and I started saying I invest in Jacksonville, it was like one month after that thing aired that I started to notice like, damn, there's no inventory. What happened here? And then three months later, I couldn't get a contractor to call me back. Real estate investors sort of act like locust that just swarm into a market and eat up all the inventory. And then they move on to the next one. We've seen this

in Atlanta. We saw this in Memphis. We saw it in Jacksonville. We saw it in Birmingham, Alabama, Austin, Texas before that. There's clearly like, this is the hot thing and everyone goes there. it gets super hard to find anything and then they move on to the next. So if you're listening to this, it sounds like Philly still has some opportunities to go in there. And would you say that there's some possibility to burr? Absolutely. Yeah. So Philly's rapidly gentrifying. So slowly the, you know, more distressed neighborhoods are turning over. And as that happens, there's a lot of our developer clients have several opportunities that are currently in progress in these neighborhoods specifically.

And some of these neighborhoods that you would 10 years ago never think that anybody would ever want to own a property in. Now there's $700,000 row homes in. So that's really helping the people looking to do the Burr strategy because it's giving you some comps to support what you're about to do. So yeah, absolutely. I think that's a great strategy as well. What about any data on current shifts in your market?

Are days on market going up? Are they going down? How have things been changing? Yeah. So I was actually pretty impressed by. Peter's stats. Great job on that. But yeah, what impressed me the most was your days on market, because our average is around 40. 40 days on market. That's huge, yeah. Yeah. So the interest rates are really hurting a lot of buyers. And it's one of the reasons why, I mean, you can look at it in a negative

way. To me, I see it as an opportunity. You know, if everybody's kind of taking a step back, this is a perfect time for you to jump in and scoop up a, you know, a property under what will be the new market value once the rates drop. So yeah, days on market are definitely high. Sales price statistically is down 5.9% since last year. I'm seeing property sell at roughly 80 to 85% of ask price price. Wow. Yeah. For Peter, for you, did you say 98%? 99.7% list the sales price ratio. Okay, wow. Yeah, when I heard that, my ears kind of, I was like, wow, great. If I could get a listing to sell for 99% of list price. But yeah, I mean, I think that the market's in an interesting spot right now, which leaves kind of a void for opportunity for new investors. You know, if you can have the

mindset that you're buying something right now for the price, not necessarily for the cash flow, the cash flow will come in 6, 12 months when you refi. So yeah, it's definitely an interesting market right now overall. Would you consider it a seller's market because of that high days on market? Let me phrase another way. Oftentimes, we will look at it. at the market as a whole. We will say the DOMs is 40 days, so that's a tough market. But there's a large degree of crap that nobody wants that's sitting there that skews it. And so people go in thinking, oh, I'm going to write it way below asking and I'm going to crush it because every seller's desperate. But there's a certain type of inventory that everybody wants

and it still sells really quick. Do you see sort of that bell curve where you got a bunch of junk and a bunch of good stuff? Or is it all just sort of too much of everything? And so you can get great under-asking price deals? No, I think it's a pretty strong bell curve. So one of the things kind of skewing the curve is new construction. So a lot of new construction started when the rates weren't the way they are today. So the projections of the developers that where they had to price the property wasn't really adequate to today's market, in my opinion. And that's the reason why we're going in there and I just had one that we got 200,000 underask on a new construction triplex. So, like, those are the kinds of wins that I'm seeing in our market because of the

situation of it. So, yeah, I mean, if you have your stereotypical colonial house in a picture perfect neighborhood in a great school district, that's going, that's gone within three days. So the good stuff is flying. Absolutely. Yeah. Like the really, really good stuff. Got it. Okay. Yeah. And you got to know that because you go into the market thinking, oh, man, it's, and then you see the house listed at 400,000, you tell your agent, write it for 280. And then you say, no, don't do that. and they go, oh, you just want to hire commission. You're like, no, this isn't one of those type of houses, right? Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So let me ask you this, Brandon, because you're saying that the, I guess the list price to selling ratio or whatever is that 85%. So does that typically mean, and I guess this is probably going to be relatively situational, but did that mean that whenever people are out there making offers, are a lot of people coming in pretty quickly with like less than asking offers because of the market the way it is or are people even aware that the market is? Would most people be privy to that? That's 85% of the actual listing price. Yeah. So I don't think that a lot of the sellers are, which is why they still are

pricing the things, you know, properties the way they are. You know, a lot of people still haven't gotten with at times. And I think that's part of the problem. So the interest rates today aren't obviously what they were a year ago. So I think the biggest issue that we're having right now is just getting cash flow in general. Every deal that we send over to look at, to get underwritten by, you know, some of our lenders they look at and they're like, I can't do this. Like, it doesn't work. Is that because they're using DSCR ratios to approve the loans? So a large majority of what I do is commercial. So they'll kind of look at that and immediately they'll just kick it back and say, I can't lend on this. Which means, yes, they are using DSCR ratios. Exactly. And what is that,

David, just for everyone at home? It's for debt service coverage ratio. So that's a good question. Typically, when you're getting approved to buy residential real estate, the lender says, can you, Brandon, can you, Peter, can you rob afford to make this payment? So they use your debt to income ratio. How much you make? How much debt do you have? How much is left over? That means you can afford a payment of this much.

So we are what's being underwritten. But with the DSCR ratio, they are looking at, can this property pay back the money that I'm going to lend you to go buy it? So they typically want to see that it will cash flow about 20% more than your expenses, which means it has a DSCR ratio of 1.2. If you hear a ratio of 1.1, that means it's going to provide 10% more rent than what it would cost to own it. And if it's a DSCR ratio of one, that means it's breaking even.

Does that make sense? Yeah. Okay. So you're in the commercial space. In order for someone to get financing to buy it, it has to, for lack of better phrase, cash flow, right? It has to hit these DSCR ratios. And when rates go up like they have, but the sellers are like, I don't want to sell it for less

than somebody else did. You find yourself in a bit of a stalemate. Is that what you're seeing out there? Yeah, and I think part of the reason is, you know, there's obviously talks of interest rates dropping, so the sellers realize that. And if the seller's not with their backs to a corner and they absolutely have to get rid of the property for whatever reason, they're just going to, what I'm seeing some of our clients do is take the withdraw the listing and they're going to hold it off until they're projecting that Q4 of this year. Things are going to kind of improve from a lending standpoint.

So that's exactly what they're doing. They're holding off until the market does allow them to get the number they need. Yeah. And this is what we're talking about on today's podcast, but as a side note, I'll ask you, if you look at this stalemate that we're in, I look at it like at siege warfare, because I can't help it make everything some form of war or battle reference, right? You've got the people inside the city that are like, we're not giving in. We're not going to let you into our city to take us over. And you've got the conquering people. These are like the buyers saying, break down that door. I want to buy your property. Here's my offer. And the people inside the city are the sellers. No, we're not going to take it. You need to come up. And they're in a standoff.

Well, in siege warfare, it's all about attrition. Are you going to run out of food on the inside before we run out of food on the outside? Because we can go get more food. We can wait. And in the commercial space, the buyers are in the stronger position. They're sitting outside of the city walls saying, hey, you're going to run out of your loan. You have a balloon payment that's going to come due at a certain point. And if you have to sell, because of that, we're going to be waiting to buy.

Is that a thing that you think in the future is going to present? at some opportunities in Philly. Well, it's happening right now. I mean, so like the one example I brought up of the new construction 200K underask. The reason for that is because they bought it and they developed it obviously with a construction loan, which is higher interest and shorter term. Well, that term's getting to the end. So they didn't really have a choice. So either you refi and you keep it or you just make a sacrifice and sell the property. You know, a lot of developers, they don't want to hold on to their end product. That's not their goal. So they're going to have to refy at this current interest rate or just make a compromise and sell it for a number that makes sense in the

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Thank you both for providing such a lot. a solid assessment and analysis of both Indianapolis and Philly. I saw Rob perk up when you started talking about all of the opportunities that are out there, Brandon. If I was you, I would probably get his email and start sending him a couple deals because when he does that, it means like, don't do this to me. I have shiny object syndrome. The real SOS, right? Yeah. All right. So let's start with you, Peter. We'll get Brandon's vocal cords a chance to rest because I just grilled him right there. All right, Peter, tell me about the name of your deal. All right, so we're going to call this one the dumpy duplex.

So this one's based in Indianapolis, located in the Mableton Fall Creek area. On this deal was in the last six months that just happened. So Mapleville Falls Creek's a nice area on the north side. I experienced a lot of revitalization, historically a C-class area, but it's been turning over, and I'd classify more than that B-class now. So I represent the client, happened to meet them through the bigger pockets, agent finder. So great tool to find an agent if you don't have one in any local market here. So she was from out of state, never been in Andy, didn't know anything about the area.

I was looking for a burr or potential flip. This one happened to be a burr. So it was a duplex. Purchased it with hard money, included money for renovation and refied into a 30-year fix once the work was done. So the numbers on this thing. My client bought it for $135,000. It was listed at 175. I'll tell you that, how we got there in just a moment.

It was 330K ARV with $115,000 in renovation. They did have it appraised on the refy for the 330 just as we had hoped. And after finalizing that refinance, she left about $9,000 in the deal. Not bad. Yeah, not bad. It was waiting of the numbers, though. So it runs for 1,600 aside. So you got 3,200 gross.

Tennis paying all utilities. Our total monthly payments about 1,900. So, you know, after you take the 10% off for your property management company, it's netting about $1,000 a month on this thing. So, rock and roll. It's about 130% cash on cash annually. Yeah. Not bad, right?

Cool. One really cool thing about this one is that my client rented it to a business that helps battered women and children. So they signed a two-year lease with them and they get guaranteed checks from the state. So it makes the investment really stable with very minimal turnover. Okay. So walk us through some of the mechanics of this really fast. So you said that she bought the house for $100. $135. And then what was the 175 number? That was the list price. So we were able to get it down $40,000. Oh, oh, I see. Yeah. Okay, okay, great, great. And then how much work was put into that?

115,000. So total there, and that, that was also all the carrying costs and everything for the hard money. No, no, there's a, you know, it happened pretty quickly. So I didn't get, my guess it's about 10,000 in carrying costs because it did take a couple months to do the renovation. Got it, got it. Okay, cool. So, yeah, so she's into it roughly for, you know, 270 or so. 270. And then she was able to basically go get a high appraisal from the bank because it checked all the boxes. did it appraised completely, but not completely to the level she needed to get all of her money back, but pretty close to the point where she got all of it back except for $9,000, which is it lost money. It's just equity that's in the house now. Exactly.

Yeah, it was about as close to like a perfect burr as you can get these days. I mean, obviously, I know when David, you wrote your awesome book about this back in, I believe, 2017. Yeah, the numbers worked out a little differently. I think it was a lot easier to get that perfect burr where you get the infinite return, essentially, and have no money left or even get some money back. I'm a little tougher to hit those numbers these days. But yeah, this was very, very close to that. The burr-ficked.

Yeah, dang it. I was waiting for him to stop so I could say that. Yeah, I did kind of step on Rob's toes. But I'm glad that came up because a lot of people think don't do a burr unless you can get all of your money out of it. Yeah, that's silly, right? It's silly, right? It's silly, yeah. Stop comparing yourself to perfection.

Girl, you're wonderful. You don't have to look like the girl in the magazines, right? You just got to look better than me. And it's going to be a win. Like the burr, as long as you leave less money in it, then the whole rehab and the 25% down, you won. Be happy with that. So thank you for bringing this up.

Well, one quick note on that. Yeah, the way I always think about that is, you know, especially with, I mean, really anything, but the way I think about it is like, if I were going to go and buy a $330,000 house, I would need to put down 20% probably, which would be $66,000. That's like way more than the $9,000. Right. So sweat equity equals equity. Yes, that's the idea.

Yes. Plus, the rehab you'd have to spend after you bought it to fix it up. And that's cash out of pocket typically, too. She did purchase with a hard money loan and they included the money for innovation. So I forget the exact total of what she spent out of pocket, probably in that 30% range or so. But you're right. So this was a duplex. So actually, you go buy this just on market for 330.

You're doing 25% down. So you're looking more in the $75,000 range. What's this all said and done? Pretty good. Okay. And how did you demonstrate value to your client in this deal? Excellent question. So a couple things. So number one, this client had never been in Indianapolis, never stepped foot here, didn't know anything about it. So as with all my remote clients, you know, I was their eyes and ears, their boots on the ground. I helped them find property managers, lender contacts. She'd actually come to me with a property manager or she moved with a contractor already in place. Found on the BP forum, by the way, great resource there. And so, you know, the local area information, all that stuff I help provide. So on our initial conversation, I got to know her, got to know what her strategy was what she was looking for, and then, you know,

honed in on specific neighborhoods where I thought those strategies could work against. Specifically, she was looking for a burst. We want to look in transitionary neighborhoods where you've got a lot of dilapidated homes, but high ARV properties. So you get that big spread because a lot of these properties are 100 plus years old and and oftentimes need six figures of renovation to get them rent ready. So you need that widespread for the numbers to work. So, of course, you're allowed to me, you know, to be your eyes and ears the whole time. I mean, did the, you know, I do an interior and exterior video walk through during the inspection so she can see it kind of firsthand up close, you know, more than what the picture you'll see in the pictures, help coordinate access to the inspection, get her contractor in to get the estimates, help provide comps to determine ARV on both the sale, rent, et cetera, all the numbers. But more importantly on this specific one, I use knowledge I had about the property and the seller to really negotiate a good price for her. So this was listed at 175, as I mentioned. So we got it for 10K.

under asking originally. So we're under contract at 165. However, in my talks with the seller's agent, I discovered that the seller bought this, or got, acquired the property at like a tax auction or something like that. And what they didn't know is there's actually two properties on the parcel. So they thought they were just buying one. So they found out they had a second property. They went to the city, parceled it off and decided to sell it. And look, I looked at the tax records, saw that they paid 100 for that parcel. So anything over, you know, it's basically a bonus property that was just going to be profit for them. So I figure they may not care too much about that final sales price because, again, it is all profit. So I used the, you know, the knowledge I had about the property.

And then, of course, we did the inspection, got a contractor bid. And it was in really rough shape. So we used that as leverage too. So we use all those things to really hammer the seller on the price and get that down. So, you know, again, we were under contract for 165. And we negotiated an additional $30,000 discount after the inspection to get down to $1.35 and really make the numbers work for the client. Yeah, that's awesome. David, you've done a, I think you've done a burr before. How common is it to get like a full on contracting bid before you close on the property?

Because the thing that I always find is like sometimes when a deal is there, you like you need to make the offer move quickly. But a contractor bid could take like a week or two or three depending on how fast that contractor is. So like are you always basing the home sale on that contingency that you can get a contractor bid? Yeah, I never got it before I put it in contract, which I think is a mistake people make. They wait to put it in contract until they have every single piece of intel and then someone else buys it. I did have it before I closed every time. So the way I set it up, which is in the Burbook, apparently it just puts Rob to sleep when he reads it at night. So he doesn't remember this part.

But it's because it's therapeutic. That's why. Yeah, there you go. Thank you, man. It's actually, like, I got frustrated by constantly having my home inspector go to the house, the property manager go to the house, then the contractor go to the house, and then they all have to communicate with each other. And of course, they go, the shortest answer is just to bug me with it. And now I've got three different people that I'm trying to shoot stuff to. So I would schedule my agent to get there with my property manager and the home inspector and the contractor. And they're all at the same time, go through the house. And the home inspector talks to the contractor and says, hey, this electrical outlet's not working. This cabinet hinges breaking. This light switch isn't flipping on. Whatever the

thing is. And now the contractor knows to throw that in his. bid because he's already going to be there, right? It's a lot of money if you want someone to go to your house just to fix an electrical outlet because they're charging you for the time to go. But if they're already there doing everything, they usually just charge you for the materials in like 25 bucks or something to have one of their guys switch it out. So I would get the contractor bid at the same time that the home inspection was done and I'd have the major stuff from the inspection put into the contractor bid. So it was all there. And then I would have those total numbers before I closed and ideally before my inspection contingency was up, then I would go back and

renegotiate or say, nope, it works and I can close on the deal. Nice. Wow. That is my blinkest right there. That's like the blinkest version of the burr. That's a great way to put it. We call it, we call it green kist. Green kiss. That's right. We do call it that. Well, that's an amazing deal, Peter. That's awesome. I mean, it sounds like you provided a ton of things that some realtors do, but not necessarily always well, but like getting in there in the comps and doing the ARVs and the fact that you've done flips before probably helps a lot because you actually can provide a little bit of guardrails on what to do and what not to do. So pretty amazing deal.

130% cash on cash. When did this happen? Like when did this deal take place? She purchased it in March and just got the refi completed two three weeks ago. So this just happened. Very recent. Okay. Yeah. So, look, I think 130% cash on cash return, not really where you should set your sites, not always realistic. However, it is encouraging to know that it is super possible to have like a good deal even in today's market. That's kind of like the moral of the story. Yep. Absolutely. And it shows you, there are things certain agents can do, certain ways of getting information that you can help leverage. Again, had I not had that conversation with the seller's agent really dug in and

ask some probing questions and did my research on the back end looking at the tax records, things like that to really see the history of that property. Without that additional knowledge that I gained, I probably wouldn't have the leverage to negotiate that price down so much. And a lot of agents won't take the time to do that. Yeah. Yeah. Well, amazing. Well, thanks for sharing. Let's move on to deal number two. Throw it over to you, Brandon. Do you have a name for the deal? So this is the 7th Street deal. This property is in Philadelphia. It was, originally listed for 1.2. My client immediately was interested in it because of the location. This was a property that recently got renovated.

So during the due diligence and inspections, the interest rates ended up going up. They went up to a point where the deal no longer made sense at that price. So because we were one of the first people that went to see the property and offered on it, we got it under contract. So because of that, the seller wasn't willing to compromise on price. because they figured they could just take it back to market and just test the waters and see if they could do some do it with somebody else, maybe even a cash buyer. And sorry, what was the price on that one more time? So it was $1.2 million.

1.2 million. Okay, cool. This was a five-unit building. So naturally, I wanted to keep the deal live. It was a great deal for my client at the time, but I knew that there was still a way that I could make this work. So I went back to the seller and just really try to see if I could get the price down, but he wouldn't budge because of the nature of the deal. So I proposed seller financing. So seller financing would essentially allow the seller to still get the number that he was looking to get.

But at the same time, I could leverage a lower interest rate to get my client the number that he needed in order to make the deal work. So basically, all said and done, I got him a 3% interest rate in a market where 7.5 was the going rate. Nice. So naturally, I think he almost doubled his cash flow on the property. Significant. Yeah, absolutely. strategically, I looked at some permits and plans that were pulled on the city's website. There's a couple large multifamily projects that were slated to break ground.

This was earlier this year. So they're slated to probably right around now. They're breaking ground. So we structured the term, a five-year seller finance term. And actually, he's doing interest-only payments. So his payments are like peanuts compared to, you know. So it's not amortized over any specific time or anything like that? No, interest only for five years and then a balloon after that.

Cool. So the cool thing is that by the time his balloon payments do, there's several hundred units of new construction that will be done. So it's going to essentially boost his value of the property up. So when he refies, he might even be able to cash out some. Yeah, walk away with some cash. Well, let me ask you this. I guess I'm a little confused about, okay, so he's buying this property.

There's stuff being built. he buys at seller finance, is he then also financing the completion of the construction himself or how does that part work? No, so I probably misphrased a little bit. So there's several hundred units surrounding the property that he bought that are being built. Oh, oh, oh, like shopping centers or just other, okay, got it, got it. So yeah, it's a really growing. It's, you know, like a lot of the gentrifying neighborhoods in Philly, you know, it's rapidly growing. So I think he's going to see some nice appreciation out of it, too. Cool, cool. And let me ask you this. This is always something that probably you'll hear often on the seller finance side, but you as a realtor in this deal, how did you get paid in the seller financing situation if it's all, if it's really a more seller finance like, hey, a buyer goes to the seller and they work out their terms?

Yeah, so the seller paid exactly the commission that he promised on the listing. So it didn't change anything on that aspect. Nothing came out of my buyer's pocket. So nothing changed on the commission side of things. So I have a couple really good attorney connections that are really good with creative financing and seller financing. So brought them into the deal to kind of draft up the note and the quote-unquote mortgage. And then it was just a closing just like every other. So nothing else changed on that aspect. Great. And then a buyer comes to the table with some amount of cash to close and that's sort of where the commission is paid out of. Correct. Yeah. So we still came to the table with the same exact down payment that he was going to put on his conventional mortgage. So that's kind of the, those are the proceeds that were used to distribute commissions. Cool, cool, cool. And I mean, I think it's pretty clear how you demonstrated value. It sounds like you made a dying deal. You brought it back to life. Was there any other things that you worked, any other angles that you kind of brought to your client to make this like a slam dunk? Yeah. So this specific client was actually an out-of-state investor. He's based out in New Jersey. Not very familiar with the specific neighborhoods and the, you know, specificities of

of the market where this property was. So really, I was able to connect them with some of my resources in terms of lending. Well, obviously, that didn't work out. So then I quick pivoted to some attorney connections, got them connected with a property manager, some local contractors. So, yeah, I mean, I would say that to me, the most important thing that a broker can do is really just provide connections to their clients. So structuring the kind of restructuring the deal mid-trustering the deal mid-trustering.

transaction, I think really helped him still keep the deal alive and ultimately make his first acquisition in the city of Philly. Nice. And you said it cash flowed before, or it was going to cash flow even at the 7% or whatever that initial interest rate was. But then by bringing the interest rate down to 3%, it doubled the cash flow. Is that how it all ended up panning out? Like, did they walk into like a pretty awesome deal from an income standpoint? Yeah. So he's doing really well. I touched basically about a week ago on the property. He's doing very well with it. Occupancy's not an issue. So yeah, I mean, he ended up, I honestly don't have the specific numbers, but he's doing double the numbers that he was projecting with the previous mortgage through a conventional

note. Wow. That's good. So again, there is always a creative solution if you can get the seller on board, which sounds like they were and ended up creating a pretty great deal out of it. So really nice. All right. Well, thank you to agents very much for sharing both about your markets and your deals. It's encouraging to know that people are still able to make deals happen if they have the right information. So we thank you for sharing it on our platform. Peter, people want to reach out to you. Where can they do so? Thanks, David. So number one, the bigger pockets agent finder is the best resource there. You can find me directly on BP.com. If you want to go for my socials at Instagram slash indie home seller or Facebook at Peter Stewart Realty, and that is Stuart

spelled S-T-E-W-A-R-T. And how about you, Brandon? So you can check out my team's website. It's agent-P-H-L.com, or you could check out our Instagram. It's just agent-P-H-L. Thank you. Rob, where can people find you? You can find me on the IG or the Y-T over at Rob-B-B-U-I-L-T.

Look at this. Alphabet soup coming from Abasolo here. Nicely done. You can find me on the agent fighter as well if you're looking for an agent in California, or you can reach out to me directly. My Instagram and all my socials are David Green 24 as well as my YouTube channel. Or you can go to David Green24.com and see all the stuff I got going on. Thank you, gentlemen.

This has been a fantastic episode. I would highly encourage anybody who's looking to buy in the Philly or Indy markets to reach out to both of these two gems of human beings. We're going to let you guys get out of here. This is David Green for Rob. Alphabet Soup Abas Solo, signing off. And that was our show. Head over to biggerpockets.com slash agent finder to match with investor-friendly agents now.

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