All Forum Posts by: Jose Botello

We’ve been looking into investing into real estate and we have an opportunity to buy a duplex that has a vacant side and an occupied side. We are thinking about living in the vacant side while we build a house on our land we bought. How long do we have to occupy it before moving out? 

I need to listen to that! We do have a primary home already. There’s a possibility to build and in-law suite or some sort of small apartment separate from the main home once we build. Thank you all for the advice!

 I think I’ve made up my mind. I didn’t know about real estate until about 3-4 years ago and that’s when I really started studying and reading about it. The I found BP about a year ago! So it really has me itching to get started!

 Thank you! 

Little back story. I Have been trying to get started on real estate for about 3 years now, my wife and I were close to pulling the trigger on a property when a plot of land came up at a discount price. We’ve always wanted land to build on, been together for 10 years. Anyways, we bought the land, cut the timber off of it and essentially got our down payment back plus some. My dilemma is, should I start building or take the money and look for a property? Building would put me at a 5 minute drive to work vs 30 min currently and we would be down sizing bringing our mortgage payment down and we’d be in a happier place. Doing all of this would delay investing. 
Thoughts? Suggestions? 

Thank you all!!

thank you for the help, i will look into that

My wife and i currently have a 3/2 house with full basement. have been tossing the idea of renting to travel nurses since we live about 15 min away from two hospitals. how or where can i see how much i could rent my home for? 

side note, the small town i live in is definitely not as nice as Cape Girardeau where the hospitals are, so i am afraid i wont be able to rent it out for enough to cover mortgage and utilities.

thanks for the help and insight!

Have been researching real estate for about 2 years now. I feel like my location isn’t the greatest for investing. Have looked at a couple of deals even made offers but was deterred by inspection. Is it just analysis paralysis?