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4 January 2025 | 28 replies
Central America is known for poor quality teak.
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19 January 2025 | 354 replies
Now the management and integrity of handling the money that's again another issues .. so if you have questionable collateral and poor management this end result is not a shocker at least to me..
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23 December 2024 | 7 replies
Neighbors activity or their poor unit maintenance affecting your unit or tenants.
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16 January 2025 | 40 replies
These 10 cabins I am buying have been very poorly operated, so I am buying them almost strictly at property value.
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28 December 2024 | 8 replies
Not to mention that night I slept on the floor of that flip house, I could see all the work that wasnt done, wasnt done to code, and was done poorly.
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5 February 2025 | 205 replies
Doors, windows, and insulation installed.
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4 January 2025 | 35 replies
Following the shiny object, throwing money at a market you don't know well, and blindly trusting strangers that have a clear profit motive put you in a poor position to succeed regardless of where you choose to invest.
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4 January 2025 | 14 replies
Or like some of the crowdfunders money flooded in and they made some pretty seriously poor lending choices and they themselves and their investors got wiped out.
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3 January 2025 | 40 replies
Point being that property you acquire 1-2 years ago is likely to be subject to deferred maintenance and capex, so their "long term" performance in rankings 1), 3) might skew poorly in year 1-2 but may pickup after you've found and fixed all the hidden issues.I know if i did this exercise across my portfolio, the recently acquired ones wouldn't be fairly "stacked" because of all the year 1-2 cost build up from what the seller deferred, but have good chances at being future performers in years 3-5.Maybe that's why you have 2) and 5) but curious your general thoughts here are for evaluating this.
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17 December 2024 | 8 replies
If the home is 100 yrs old, I'm assuming it's a definite gut which is going to require new plumbing, electrical, heating, cosmetics.I spent about $140K reno on my multi family in the heights on NY ave and there were massive problems with it but it was a gut to 3 units & adding 2 bathrooms, 3 brand new kitchens 4 bathroom reno in total, all new flooring, sheetrock , insulation, framing, doors, electrical, plumbing, paint, parts of roof etc.