I wanted to ask and start a conversation about what additional/creative ways people have used to increase rental income or ROI on a property as a whole (such as ADU, converting garages, Airbnb, certain high ROI rehabs).

These will walk you through from the very basics to the expert understanding of what private capital is and how to use it https://store.biggerpockets.com/products/creative-financing-...If you want to start smaller with some free content here are a few great podcasts I can recommend that go over private financing in varying degrees of depthPrivate capital part 1 of a 5-part series with Amy Mahjoory https://link.chtbl.com/ZlYVqXS1Raising your first $1M podcast episode https://link.chtbl.com/BKwpsdf2Private money explained: buying without a bank https://link.chtbl.com/APiLG_Zj

A very rocky start tbh.

There's some good courses on Udemy that are very cheap to start learning. 

It's not uncommon to hear horror stories about getting into underwriting and losing your deal a week before closing because of incompetence or error.

You mentioned it was 3% interest only however the math calculates to a payment of around $3950 a month if it is amortized at 3% and 30 years starting with a unpaid principal balance of $937,000.  

Hi, so I started with a buyers agent but I’m very efficient and finding the deals myself and also finding at times they’ll say they’ll ask the seller something but then text a few days later, “Just asked the seller [insert].

I think I’d like to start investing in my Roth IRA which I have but haven’t contributed since I’ve bought the duplex back in September 22 but I’m trying to figure out my budget again because I’ve moved to Los Angeles to live with my gf.My reserves have definitely taken a hit so I’d like to build it back up and am hesitant to start contributing again until I can have a reserve for my real estate (thinking 6 months worth until I’m comfortable contributing to Roth again)Is this dumb?

We "lose" money on a cashflow basis, but completely comfortable with that as this is more of a 2nd home that renters help us pay for.

I lived in Japan for 20 years and was going to start building my USA based portfolio from Japan.