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15 January 2025 | 12 replies
A couple of months ago, I purchased a property using a hard money loan for $115,000.
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6 February 2025 | 38 replies
I'm new, only been with you guys for a couple days; I connected with a couple people and then boom..
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3 February 2025 | 2 replies
A couple strategies that could make sense for a younger person without experience could be a live-in flip or a house hack.
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5 February 2025 | 17 replies
We did a couple recent ones that were on market, fixed them up and got them to market after the remodel with a profit.
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5 February 2025 | 28 replies
I live here and househack as well - can provide a first hand perspective.
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5 February 2025 | 3 replies
Sounds like you need to have a relationship with a couple of good contractors, 40k for vinyl siding sounds high, what was the material cost.
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20 January 2025 | 5 replies
You can wargame scenarios to decide what you think is best.On the other hand, that is a pretty sizeable rehab budget.
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5 February 2025 | 4 replies
Since this situation was so egregious (IMO), I would either boot them out now, or at least have a serious talk, real serious....If you're going to let them stay I would just get a really deep cleaning done, maybe a couple, and then replace carpet after they're gone.
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28 January 2025 | 14 replies
On the other hand if you wanted the total investment to be $200K it would most likely be a condo or townhouse.
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2 February 2025 | 20 replies
I had looked into Pricelabes a couple years ago and didn't think it worked well for my market, but sometimes think about retrying it because so many seem to rely on it.