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6 February 2025 | 8 replies
Don’t take on too much rehab work for your first deal.
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22 January 2025 | 7 replies
When they sign the lease, it is one of the five key points highlighted on the first page that they have to initial.
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2 January 2025 | 0 replies
Also, our market has many First time home buyers, so to fix&flip we needed contractors which required much more $$.
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3 February 2025 | 6 replies
And have my first RAL under construction here in DFW The value in the 3 day is def there.
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16 January 2025 | 2 replies
Investment Info:
Single-family residence buy & hold investment.
Purchase price: $174,000
Cash invested: $16,000
Bought a single-family home in spring of 2021. Rented it out for three years before...
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4 February 2025 | 3 replies
Then more issues started to pop up over time.
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29 January 2025 | 11 replies
I also kept my first home and it is paid off now and worth approximately $150k, with current renters.
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5 February 2025 | 7 replies
If places like yours are sitting at $2200 with no traction, you’re taking on unnecessary risk, especially as a first deal.
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10 January 2025 | 4 replies
It may seem easy to jack up rent but there is something to be said about good, on-time paying tenants.As an accountant, I always rely on the numbers.
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7 February 2025 | 1 reply
This works for the first 1-2 properties—but after that, it becomes a bottleneck.