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30 January 2025 | 4 replies
I ended up buying a different property two blocks away.
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17 January 2025 | 4 replies
Hello!I am 59 years old, and my retirement fund is all in my 401k. I want to diversify and I feel like the best way to accomplish that is through real estate. I am currently trying to learn as much as possible by read...
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12 February 2025 | 5 replies
I read "guarantees" - for me that is the biggest scam ever and right then and there either hang up the phone or delete and block the email. anytime anyone guarantees anything run and run fast.
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5 February 2025 | 69 replies
As an update from my end, since my concrete block walls were knocked down in Hurricane Ian, today I finally found out that new block was delivered put back up and the Tie-Beam is being formed to be poured.
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10 February 2025 | 0 replies
Purchase price: $232,500 Cash invested: $45,000 Beautiful fully renovated Shore Acres 2/1.This house really stands out on the block with the new bright paint scheme!
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10 February 2025 | 31 replies
To get a rough ballpark, sure, but sometimes you'll be way, way off like we've seen with the iBuyers who it turns out were too smart for their own good and ended up buying high and selling low due to to relying on data and not actual organic, boots on the ground experience pulling accurate comps like an appraiser or realtor who knows the market on not just a block by block or street by street but a house by house level.
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14 February 2025 | 1 reply
I rented out 2 bedrooms 1 bath for $1,300/mn, as it is a 3 bedroom but blocked it off to be able to do the bathroom addition.
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16 February 2025 | 4 replies
You can go from nice homes to very poorly maintained homes in a few blocks!
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7 February 2025 | 4 replies
There needed to be fire blocking in my case as it was an old balloon frame and those have open spots in the stud cavities that go all the way up.