Tommy DobczykOpportunity Zone Advisor, OZ Wizard · Director of Development | Certified Opportunity Zone Advisor

AI Uncovers Shocking Land Deal: Is This a Rip-Off? #shorts

10 Aug 2026 · 2 min

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In this short conversation, Tommy Dobczyk and a co‑speaker dissect a multi‑lot land listing that appears to be severely overpriced. The property consists of four half‑acre parcels (totaling nearly 5 acres) that were originally listed as raw land but are now shown as a buildable premium infill pad with street frontage, fencing, and nearby power. The seller originally purchased the land for $156,500 and is now asking roughly $500,000 per parcel, a three‑fold increase. The speakers discuss the need for cleanup work to make the site suitable for a lay‑down yard, the use of seller financing, and the calculation of the Debt Service Coverage Ratio (DSCR), which currently shows 0 because there is no Net Operating Income (NOI) yet. The dialogue highlights concerns about the Deal Hunter tool’s pricing calibration and the viability of the deal without established income streams.

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Cause what Deal Hunter's saying, it looks to be 4 lots, as you mentioned, with their different lot numbers, with each one being half an acre. And then with the structure that you put, it looks like the seller's trying to ask for 3 times the amount that they actually sold it for. So they bought it for $156,500, and now they're trying to sell it for almost $500,000 each land or each parcel.
That— what's crazy is how it's interpreting it because it's all 4 lots for $495,000. All 4 lots are a total of almost 5 acres. No, you're wrong.
Originally it was running as raw land, but now with the photo it's saying it's actually a buildable premium infill pad because it has some actual Like the pad exists already as frontage to a street. It's fenced and also has power right nearby.
And so it's actually going to need to be, it's going to, it's going to need some work to clean it up. So, and make it ready for a laydown yard. And then I'll let that, by doing the seller financing option, we want to, we want to see what our DSCR is on that.
Right now it's giving me a DSCR of 0 because it's saying there's no actual current income. So it doesn't have an NOI, right? Which would make sense.
We can say that we rent that lot out for somewhere around $4,000 to $5,000 an acre, and he's getting about $15,000 a month on that. They're getting, they're getting somewhere around $3 a square foot across the street. $2 a square foot seems to be about the average based on my experience. I had somebody who's been using, or said he's been using Deal Hunter since I started it, said that it was not calibrated properly or whatever. So it's a good opportunity to validate that and check it because it could be working perfectly on mine and messed up on everybody else's.