Buy-and-hold
Wire the down payment, collect the direct deposit, never hear the property's name again. We model cash-on-cash and management drag so the deal holds up without you in the room — and our management partner keeps it that way.
THE MODEL FILE № MSIR-WEB-02 · EDITION 01
Consultative, not transactional.
Agent relationships here usually end at the closing table. Ours is built for the year after, and the year after that — your criteria on file, our market on watch, and a model that tells you the truth before you wire anything.
Guiding investors to build wealth in West Virginia real estate without the guesswork.
Built to survive a bad year.
All the agents here want to sell you a property. We want you to build a portfolio that survives a bad year.
A typical listing in this market arrives optimistic: rent from the top of the comp range, expenses from the bottom, nothing set aside for vacancy, management, or the roof. Sellers' financial statements are often worse — numbers assembled to sell, not to operate. Most agents pass them along untouched, because almost no one here underwrites investment deals at all.
We read those documents the way an underwriter reads them, so what you hear from us sounds different.
The numbers work on a 12-month BRRRR — here's the underwriting, and here's where it could break. Charleston is undervalued by national comps, but the management drag is real. This one doesn't pencil; the next one might.
Consultative means the relationship outlasts the closing. The question we plan to ask you next year isn't whether you're ready to buy again. It's how your portfolio has changed since the last one.
Two strategies, same rigor.
BRRRR
Buy under value, fix what raises rent, refinance your cash back out. We model the exit before you enter: purchase, scope, rent lift, and the refi math — in writing, in one memo.
Both welcome. Different math, same model.
POLICY
What we won't do.
- 01
Inflate a rent assumption to make a deal pencil.
- 02
Pass along a seller's financials without reading them like underwriters.
- 03
Recommend renovations that don't move rent — granite at a $1,000 rent is your money on the counter.
- 04
Sell you a contract we don't own. Zero assignments. We represent you as licensed agents, or not at all.
THE BENCH
Management is where remote deals die.
The number one way an out-of-state property dies is bad management. The most impressive deal on paper, run badly, is a bad deal — so management was the first problem we solved, before sourcing, before anything.
Behind every MSIR deal is the same bench. Our local network has operated in this market for 8+ years, and you never have to fly out: we've walked it, photographed it, and the GC has scoped the rehab before the memo reaches you.
Management
Our property-management partner takes the keys at closing. Leasing, maintenance, the 2 a.m. calls.
General contractors
Vetted on real jobs, priced line by line — scopes written before you're under contract, not after.
Lenders
DSCR and conventional lenders who actually close in West Virginia, on West Virginia timelines.
Title
Quiet, fast, and used to investor closings.
THE TEAM FILE № MSIR-WEB-02 · PERSONNEL
Two names on every file.
No photos, no fluff. Two people, two licenses, every file.
J.R. Stricklen
WV Licensed Real Estate Salesperson
J.R. Stricklen is a West Virginia licensed real estate salesperson and the operator on every MSIR deal. He sources the off-market inventory, walks the properties, scopes rehab line by line with the GC, and runs each deal through the underwriting model before it reaches the list. When you reply to a memo, J.R. is the one who answers — with the property's file open. Direct line: 304-544-2145.
Andrew Sayer
Broker · № 525736
Andrew Sayer is the broker of record, West Virginia license № 525736. Every MSIR transaction runs under his licensed brokerage — contracts, escrow, disclosures, and closings reviewed at the broker level rather than rubber-stamped. That structure is the point: when we say licensed, not assigned, Andrew is the license. A clean file on every deal, and a licensed chain of accountability from the first memo to the closing table.
Bring your criteria. We'll bring the numbers.
Thirty minutes, no pitch. If this market isn't right for you, we'll say so on the call.