Meir Ben-Yechiel
Question About Investment Goal Strategy
8 January 2025 | 5 replies
What is the kind of timeline you are looking for also?
Jason B.
Suburban Chicago: One of the Hottest Rental Markets in the U.S.!
14 January 2025 | 6 replies
Hey fellow suburban Illinois BPers - Not sure if this has been sent/shared previously, but thought it'd be good to recap - Chicago Agent Magazine recently reported that suburban Chicago was ranked the second-hottest rental market in the nation (Here’s the article.).This confirms what a lot of us have seen: demand for rentals is really strong in the suburbs right now.
Polat Caglayan
What do you think about the future of Detroit?
12 January 2025 | 10 replies
Sometimes they forget to tell you that many tenants in Detroit don't pay (depending on the property manager skill and the type of tenant) - but taxes are very high in the city and so is insurance.
Joelle Chilazi
Greetings from Realtor in Jersey City which has the 2nd highest rents in the US
13 January 2025 | 27 replies
It could vary of course depending on the defenses of the tenant and if the court is presently backlogged.
Drew Sygit
New Michigan Law: Landlords Can't Discriminate on Tenant Income Source
14 January 2025 | 10 replies
I don't foresee Texas implementing a similar law, but I'd be interested to know how this change has affected others.Side note: It's not the Section 8 tenants that I'm avoiding, it's the government bureaucracy that comes with it.I believe the majority of the US population lives in states with the same law.How do we navigate it in those states?
Brandon Toron
How to get the most cash out of my property?
13 January 2025 | 13 replies
The HELOC strategy may work, but many lenders are wary of putting a HELOC on an investment property and if they do they still cap LTV at 75-80%.
Kevin Green
Why Buffalo is the Hottest Real Estate Market of 2025 (Again!)
14 January 2025 | 4 replies
Employment Growth Outpacing Housing SupplyBuffalo leads the nation in the ratio of new jobs to new homes permitted.
Adam Macias
Wholesaling as it is today will be a thing of the past.
12 January 2025 | 8 replies
Quote from @Adam Macias: Wholesaling as it is today will be a thing of the past.It’ll truly be strange to even hear people and gurus trying to make big money off it.The more people try wholesaling but then end up not having an end buyer or cancelling contracts or trying weird things like novations, the more all of real estate will be regulated and cause requirements like licensing to be able to transact more than just your personal resident purchase.Which I don't know why hasn't happened sooner.Here's all the states (in red or yellow) requiring a license to wholesale or at least have started the process:Credit: REITipsterI think licensing and regulation is a beautiful thing that should happen if you plan to be an wholesaler and do more than one deal... which is going to be the case for anyone taking this business seriously.Or even it being regulated to need a real estate agent to do more than one deal outside of buying a personal residence.I've had plenty of failed attempts with agents in pursuit of wholesale deals and I know exactly why, it's not because the agent couldn't find me deals, it's just not practical to think there's opportunity for the numbers a wholesaler needs to make a profit on top of everyone else needing to these days.Because the only sellers who truly can sell at a deep enough discount are usually those who ran out of time and just didn't do something sooner with their situation.I know many coaches and gurus will disagree with me but there’s no regulations on youtube gurus and what they teach either.If we look at the current state of the market in hot cities, the availability of online resources to the average homeowner, how many deals can you possibly believe are available at 70% of ARV?
Rene Hosman
How do you keep yourself accountable to your goals?
13 January 2025 | 5 replies
The group is full of those that do that and the people range in size.
Alan Asriants
The realities of when you start acquiring more units - unexpected vacancy
12 January 2025 | 8 replies
In my experience that's not actually the case at least in legitimate evictions for non-payment of rent or breach of another part of the lease.