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30 January 2025 | 2 replies
Traditional bank loans can be slow and have strict requirements, while hard money and private lending seem to offer more flexibility.For those who’ve secured funding before, what’s been your experience?
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30 January 2025 | 11 replies
Is the property just a regular-style house or something you can build an experience around?
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25 January 2025 | 12 replies
I personally do not have experience managing rentals.
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1 February 2025 | 3 replies
When you finance through national lenders, in your experience, is a balloon a common requirement for commercial loans of this nature or is it possible to get a fixed rate for 30 years?
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12 January 2025 | 8 replies
Will it expose systemic greed, or will it shift the blame to other factors like housing shortages?
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5 February 2025 | 0 replies
What has your experience been investing with Networthy.us?
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1 February 2025 | 6 replies
Quote from @Phil Petite: Quote from @Scott Gresham: Hey Phil,I live here in Memphis and can say from experience that Tennessee makes it easy to setup an Llc.
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25 January 2025 | 8 replies
I took the Airbnb bookings and now I'm around 80/20 Airbnb/VRBO.Based on a recent bad experience that I had with Airbnb (it's a separate thread out here), I called VRBO and asked them how I can get more booking requests from VRBO.
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27 January 2025 | 1 reply
highlight_post=5222888&page=1#p5222888https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/311/topics/915728-experience-with-rent-to-retirement-turnkey?
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4 February 2025 | 24 replies
@Chris Lin, I appreciate your candor and sharing your experience here at BP.