All Forum Posts by: Aaron Breckenridge

@Bernard Barbour you can post your events to the Events and Meetup forum.

I checked two neighborhoods with areavibes and it is not at all accurate. Highland Park, Texas is ranked 69. This is a inburb of Dallas with $10m+ homes.

Neat idea!

Sadly, I don't know anything about the Denison market. I think it does make a ton of sense to look around DFW than right inside DFW.

And yes, I would try a few different tools to get a rent estimate, not just Zillow:

https://www.rentometer.com/
https://www.biggerpockets.com/insights/property-searches/new
https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/

Neighborhood Scout has pretty good info on what returns look like for specific markets.

Don't try to time the market. When/if rate cuts happen, everyone is going to be jumping into something else, all at the same time.

If it makes sense at 100-130k down payment on a 200k-ish property, does that same logic work for 50-75k down payment? With that strategy you're keeping more in reserve and earning interest and possibly seeing appreciation.

STRs are banned in Dallas.

https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/530/topics/1123770-dall...

 @Michael Campbell were you still having trouble signing up?

@Jim P. please use the "Report Abuse" feature (in the menu below the post) and the mods will take a look. Thanks.

1. I hear Facebook is popular for this. There are also "off-market" listings here.

2. There's a calculator for that here that uses Kukun.

3. Look here for estimating ARV.

4. Finding good contractors is really hard. I know some folks though that are fantastic. PM me if you want any personal recommendations.

5. Use the lender finder.

6. and 7. Use the agent finder.