Hi Everyone,

What started on April Fool's Day turned into a very busy month after all, packed with wild real estate negotiations, creative financing wins, and exciting behind-the-scenes tech upgrades. 

Take a quick peek at our April Highlights below, and feel free to reply if any of these strategies spark an idea for your own investing journey!

Real Estate & Negotiations

• Dodging Disasters: We protected an investor by walking away from a highly suspicious deal after dealing with a very difficult seller's agent (and “very difficult” is a kind term for this incident).
• Tough Negotiating: We secured an extra $20,000 discount after inspections on a fixer house (a “Grandma house on steroids”), even though the bank listed it strictly “as-is”. “As-Is” or as I call it “As-Is-Less”.

Creative Financing Deals

• Low Down Payments: We closed a rare 5% down (95% mortgage) transaction in Birmingham at normal market interest rates, with no PMI & $75k below market value after renovation. I really see our local property manager get excited about a piece of property.
• Loan Assumptions: We helped an investor take over (assume) an existing loan with an incredible 3% interest rate and multiple years of paid interest. He will certainly enjoy great cash flow and a very low interest rate for many years.
• April is the month when multiple transactions we've been working on for 2 to 3 months finally reach the finish line. 

Tech & Operations

• AI Superpowers: While we aren't using AI to pick properties yet, we are actively incorporating it into our back-office procedures and support protocols to better serve our investors. You will see the result of those efforts in the coming weeks.

Community Growth

• Webinar Boom: We've seen a significant and pleasant surge in attendance and registrations for our monthly webinars since December. 
• Returning Investors: Three long-term clients who originally purchased 7 to 9 years ago have re-engaged with us this month to start hunting for new properties. It is very pleasant to see clients who have not been actively hunting return; this is a huge compliment.

April 2026 will be remembered as the month of many firsts: (a) the craziest seller agent, (b) the most challenging international buyer remote closing, (c) multiple creative financing deals, and (d) one deal that went under contract, terminated post-inspection, saw the seller reduce the price, and then the same SDI investor renegotiated and went under contract again, but with better terms than the first time. Was this an April Fool's after all?

It’s safe to say April kept us on our toes, and we are eagerly anticipating what May will bring. 

Thank you for taking the time to read our behind-the-scenes updates. 

We're always here working away, so whenever you feel the itch to not just invest, but invest much better, our door is always open.

Best regards,

Dani and the entire Simply Do It Team

PS

May (1st) already started with a very promising and productive first day.