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25 February 2016 | 14 replies
You might be pleasantly surprised at how your lifestyle improves.
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19 February 2016 | 21 replies
Even Hilltop has improved significantly.
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15 February 2016 | 18 replies
But being born and raised in Oregon were we have no basic vandalism and theft issues and hardly any Section 8 and people pay there rent from auto drafts he just did not know what he did not know.. he dumps another 600k into this does the common area improvements..
16 February 2016 | 7 replies
Those improvements are probably already factored into the price.Might make sense for owner-occupied considering you would not have another housing payment and or cash purchase which don't sound like a good fit for you at the moment.Nice job of coming to a decision based on good data instead of "ballparking it."
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14 February 2016 | 1 reply
As I have watched tons of videos on youtube from bigger pockets I finally decided to sign up, to feed my brain more knowledge.
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22 February 2016 | 24 replies
Analyze the property and budget for the improvements needed to make it a much more valuable property than what it is now.
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14 February 2016 | 7 replies
Since this property mentioned they had some deferred maintenance in the listing I added $10,000 for improvements.
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15 February 2016 | 1 reply
We are focusing on buy, improve and hold for short term and long term rentals.
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15 February 2016 | 6 replies
If I were you I would go ahead and do the improvements, but don't omit the part where you raise the rent a little bit.
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16 February 2016 | 10 replies
You don't say how much you are putting down, but increasing that amount up to 20% if you haven't already and lengthening the term to 30 years could help improve the cash flow.