The best way to find a handyman is to look for business cards at coffee shops and local restaurants.

Also lots of sellers have locked in <4% rates and don't want to buy at 7% The above is all true, but that fact is not going to make the bond market push down mortgage rates.

@Gary Bonds the only way you'll bet a business loan as a newbie, is by cosigning for your business.You'd be better off getting a business credit card you personally cosign for to start establishing business credit.

It's true that you make your money with appreciation and not cash flow, in the long run.

This is becoming more true for government employees clearly given the recent "Use It" act which will require 400,000 government employees to go from a remote to a hybrid role which started in January of 2024 and will continue to ramp up as time goes on (Source 1, Source 2)This trend will continue as companies realize more increasingly they need to be at least hybrid to be competitive.

It's not unusual to find true 10% cap rates in Bing.

Everyone knows it's not true. 

And I guess if your always paying cash and can hold long term that might be true.. but you bring in all these payouts up front and debt behind it and that creates the risk.

This is especially true for the city and for most of the trendy neighborhoods.

They told my attorney that they were trying to obtain “seed” capital (from me) to finance the lawsuit against their true targets.