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12 July 2018 | 16 replies
If you work direct with the sellers agent, it will be less commission expense than if your agent is involved.
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9 February 2019 | 9 replies
They have experience, attorneys on staff,etc. to where I just find the property.If it's a newer buyer which I specialize in there will be a lot more heavy lifting involved to get to the closing.I am a principal broker so my structure is different than listing brokers.
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14 July 2018 | 6 replies
@Steven Lebischak, it would be nice to think that your $1400/m tenants would just be happy to pay you more than they'd be paying if they bought a place themselves, forever, but, you should allow around 1 months vacancy each year (rather than the 3% vacancy allowance I see on many of the pro forma "Calc Review Reports").
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16 July 2018 | 11 replies
I am newer to BiggerPockets and getting involved in the Oklahoma City market.
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13 July 2018 | 51 replies
I believe tenants also have the option to have their payment history reported to one of the credit bureaus too.
12 July 2018 | 5 replies
If you're in Canada you'll need 5% down.If they're willing to sell to you with owner financing then you can come to whatever arrangement you want as far as down payment, price, interest rate, and amortization since there's no bank involved.
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12 July 2018 | 0 replies
When you are contacted but the member has no post or forum activity
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31 July 2018 | 16 replies
The Houston Real Estate market rose to record territory in June, as we saw the greatest one-month sales volume of all time and sent average and median prices to new highsIf want to see full report, here you https://www.har.com/content/newsroom?
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12 July 2018 | 1 reply
View report*This link comes directly from our calculators, based on information input by the member who posted.
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12 July 2018 | 0 replies
None of the damage was reported to me.