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12 January 2025 | 185 replies
If so that's a big additional risk for the buyer.
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16 January 2025 | 12 replies
Long term goal is Property Appreciation.Brand new single family home with 3000sqft (+ additional 1200sqft unfinished basement) on a 0.25 acre lot.
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29 December 2024 | 5 replies
I ended up hiring a local attorney who specialized in landlord-tenant disputes, and while it cost me a bit more upfront, it was worth it to get the situation resolved without additional delays.A close friend of mine also delt with an out-of-state eviction in Michigan last year.
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5 January 2025 | 18 replies
This poses an additional challenge for new RE investors.
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25 December 2024 | 60 replies
Worst ADU addition appraisal occur where there is no zone MF in the vicinity.
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30 December 2024 | 13 replies
Smart tech, such as fast Wi-Fi, streaming services, and keyless entry, consistently gets positive feedback, as do luxury bathroom additions like plush towels and rain showers.
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24 January 2025 | 36 replies
Look at the PM contract and verify the 8% is all inclusive and that there are not additional charges for placing a tenant, resigning a tenant, inspections, and dealing with vendors/contractors.
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12 January 2025 | 20 replies
You divide that $20k by .075 and you get a boost of $260k to the valuation.Allowing you to take the property back to the bank, get a new loan with $208k of additional debt on the property, pay yourself back that investment and now you have enough cash to buy a $1M deal and use that strategy over and over while scaling exponentially.
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12 January 2025 | 23 replies
Lack of down payment, lack of entrepreneurial personality, low tolerance for risk, looking for the magic key that fits their desires, just want to learn, sold "Castles in the sky" with a gibberish of disconnected statements that while true in a plethora of instances do not add up to truth in any one instance, fear of failure meaning not able to take a financial loss without going into poverty, never told up front how much money they will need to spend to buy the investment in addition to paying for the class.
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21 January 2025 | 14 replies
If you stick with the larger down payments, you’ll have more stability and less risk, especially if the market shifts, but it will slow down how quickly you can buy additional properties.