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3 January 2025 | 42 replies
Just spoke with a business dev rep from BAM today, good conversation, said theyre not worried about rates right now and have plans in place to account for them.
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18 December 2024 | 3 replies
Due to past poor management of the environmental infrastructure, the river has become illegal to swim in in certain parts, and after rain falls the entire river is off limits to swim or fish in due to the heavy amounts of pollution ending up there that the city has not had the infrastructure to deal with in the past.But this all began to change in 2017, when the Virginia General Assembly passed the largest infrastructure project in Alexandria's history to make the Potomac River swimmable, and fishable by the year 2040, and they have made significant progress recently with the completion of the 2 mile long, 100-foot deep Waterfront Tunnel named Hazel.Named after environmental activist Hazel Johnson, the Hazel Waterfront Tunnel will prevent millions of gallons of combined sewage from polluting the region's waterways.
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29 January 2025 | 32 replies
It’s more about:Have you invested in real estate for your own account and have you been successful at it?
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8 January 2025 | 7 replies
.)- All in Cost = Cost to build * Square foot - Sales Price = All in Cost + (All in cost * 20%)* Covers contractor and soft cost on either fee based or cost+- Profit = (Sales price - (Sales Price * 7%))* - All in Cost accounts for agent fees and closing cost- Initial List Price = Sales price + 10% A buffer to test market absorption- Break Even being All in cost, point where everyone is paid except me. - List price is to test the market absorption at "x" price. 250k land + build.
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30 December 2024 | 3 replies
I have some money in my savings account but not a lot.
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15 January 2025 | 12 replies
Our account manager, Maria Barnes, responded quickly to our questions.
29 December 2024 | 9 replies
Second to cash in the bank is HELOC cash because you can use it however you want (you just have to see it already in an account).
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19 December 2024 | 22 replies
As Account Closed mentioned, the first question is to decide if you want to invest actively or passively.
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28 December 2024 | 12 replies
Each multifamily building I have has its own bank account.
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12 January 2025 | 28 replies
Early in my investing career I wanted to cost seg my properties, but my accountant told me I was wasting my time because I was unable to use the full depreciation benefits I already had.