All Forum Posts by: Marc Rice

Investment Info:

Single-family residence buy & hold investment.

Purchase price: $127,000
Cash invested: $80,000
Sale price: $270,000

Rehabbed house for BRRR. Did a cash out refi.

Hello everyone,

New to the forum.  I am a 45 year old teacher looking to invest in section 8 housing in states that have a high demand.  What are some states that i can start in?

Hey All,

My partner and I are looking for distressed SF or Duplex properties around the Columbus area. Our main focus is Columbus, Lancaster, and Newark but are open to deals within an hour. If you know anyone we could get in contact with or have any advice let us know! We already have financing and are looking to get going in the next couple weeks or so.

I'm working on building mine with the hopes of eventually dumping my current property manager and curious to hear from others:

1. Did you use traditional marketplaces like yelp, thumbtack, angi?

2. Is it common to protect your list or are you open to sharing with fellow investors your know?

3. How do you store it? Google sheet? Do you use software?

4. Do you have multiple for vendors per trade?

5. How or where have you typically found the best contractors? Online forums? Referrals? FB Community Pages? Nextdoor? etc.

6. Do you perform regular preventative maintenance to avoid emergencies or are you more reactive?

Hey BP Community,

Excited to be here! I’m a first time investor and eager to just connect and hear about how you got started.

Background: full time remote employee in the advertising industry. Working for DraftKings. I’m based in CA, but lived in Boston for many year! 

Goal: I’d like to buy my first rental income property in the next year. Open to anywhere in the United States. Have some markets in mind but would like to hear your thoughts. 

If you’re a female investor, let’s chat! 

Cheers, 

 It definitely increases occupancy! There's a lot of demand and low supply for pet friendly.

Hey everyone,

I'm Ricardo from the Netherlands and starting my first investment adventure. Since my wife is American we're looking into the options to possibly start investing in the USA instead of here in Europe. (also to start building something in the USA in case we would like to move there one day)

She grew up in Dayton(centerville) Ohio and still has family there. It would make sense for us to start exploring in that area. The question that I have is what would be possible for lets say 150-200k dollars to get started? What would a good first step assuming we can't/won't use any financing since we don't have US incomes, or are there still ways for financing? 

And what would be the things needed and take into account to buy a first rental property?

I have been doing research(and will do a lot more here on biggerpocket now) but since I'm not familiar with US real estate and the ways to go I Thought I would ask you experienced guys for some thoughts and advice. Anything is welcome to get a better idea. Thanks!

 I own 2 units and manage another 2, we're seeing 5-15% vacancy across the units over the past 18 months. Biggest driver for vacancy for us is being pet friendly.

Very curious about this market, been doing some research to determine if its viable. I'd love your perspective if you invest in Cleveland! Happy to chat as well. Let me know!

I am a small real estate investor in San Antonio, TX looking to diversify my portfolio with some long-term units in Ohio. I have landed on Akron as a potential. Since I am not local I am hoping some of the experienced investors can tell me which neighborhoods make for great rentals. 

Thank you all. Happy Investing.