Life on the island is hard, people not from here dont understand the island life, work attitude, etc... much different from the United States. 

Hey all,I'm wondering if any of you has Short-Term Rentals in Okaloosa Island, FL. 

Someone will come along and see this land and say, hey, this is the perfect piece of land.The fourth thing I have learned, is land investing is almost like taking off a plane.

I have 30k sitting in the bank, 710 credit score, 18% DTI, and the markets I'm looking into now are Hilton Head Island, myrtle Beach, Charleston and Columbia (inland).He also advised that any long distance property manager is going to screw me over and honestly that really took the wind out of my sails hearing that.If anyone has referrals for reliable, productive property managers and realtors in these markets, that would be greatly appreciated!

If you have no reserves and have a major problem that makes the rental uninhabitable, you will have no income to fix the problem.

I am currently a salesperson selling warehouse supplies throughout Brooklyn & Staten Island.

We're located in Staten Island , NY and look to connect with people.

A lot more goes into it than this (i.e, calculating what % is land vs property) but if you buy a $300k house and it's deprecated over 30 years then you consider $10k of that home expense to occur every year.But that also means that if you sell the property for $400k in 5 years, you didn't just make $100k (since your 'cost' is no longer $300k). 

Hello BP community, hope all is going well! I'm looking for my first investment property and was going to look through pre foreclosures. I did a free trial with foreclosure.com but I've read that sites like that may n...

Sometimes it worked exceptionally well with our investment spurring on other investors like Second Street in Olde Towne, and sometimes we became the island of bad decisions like our investment on Sharpes Lane in Turpin Hill which was quickly destroyed by vandals.