Hamza Ali

Quick underwriting tip for flex space: Target: $100/sq ft or less Goal: $12-15/sq ft annual ren

Behind the scenes of our latest flex space acquisition: Purchase price: $1.2M Renovation budge

1/ THE PROBLEM I was stuck in analysis paralysis for 2 years. Reading BiggerPockets. Watching YouTube. Saving spreadsheets. Zero deals. Zero progress. Just more "research."

2/ THE SHIFT I stopped looking at apartments and retail. Everyone was chasing the same deals. Cap rates compressed to 4%. Then I found flex space. Office + warehouse. Boring. Unsexy. Zero competition. 7-9% cap rates. Triple net leases. Tenants who actually pay.

I went from analyzing deals in my cubicle to owning $2.5M in flex space real estate in 18 months. Here's the exact playbook I used (that anyone can copy):

2/ Enter flex space. Office warehouse properties. Boring on the surface. But here's why they work: • Tenants stay 5-10 years (not 12 months) • NNN leases = tenant pays taxes, insurance, maintenance • One roof, multiple income streams • Recession-resistant (businesses need space)

1/ The problem with most real estate education: It's either too theoretical (read 50 books, still don't know how to close) or too niche (single-family rentals with $200/month cash flow). I needed something that actually scaled.

I went from analyzing deals in my cubicle to owning $2.5M in flex space real estate. Here's what I learned that W-2 employees need to know about escaping the 9-5 through commercial real estate 👇

The best part? Less competition. Everyone's fighting over the same apartment deals. Flex space? Crickets. I built a community of 2,000+ investors who've figured this out. DM me "FSN" if you want to learn how we do it. #FlexSpace #CRE #RealEstateInvesting

Apartments = 200+ tenants, 200+ toilets, 200+ headaches. Flex space = 4-8 tenants, NNN leases, tenants handle their own repairs. One property manager can handle 30+ flex buildings. Good luck doing that with apartments.Cash flow? My first flex space deal: $14K/month gross, $11K net. Purchase price: $1.2M That's a 11% cap rate in a market where apartment caps are compressed to 4-5%. The math doesn't lie.

Everyone's chasing apartment buildings. I'm buying office warehouses. Here's why flex space is the most slept-on asset class in CRE 👇

Wednesday reflection: The best deals aren't found. They're built. Every underwriting session,

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