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Investment Info:
Single-family residence buy & hold investment.
Purchase price: $455,000
Cash invested: $70,000
Our first purposeful real estate investment: a beachfront property short term renta...
Hello BP Community,I'm currently looking at refinancing out of a VA Loan. My loan is only 2.5 years old and I have a great rate on it. My reason for doing this is primarily to get out of the va loan so that I can use ...
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It seems from my research people are either Index fund investors or dividend investors and both sides make good arguments and will explain why their strategy is better. Dividend investors claim they consistently beat ...
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First off, real estate is a long strategy for me. I joined this group a week ago. I am finalizing my refi on my first project. It has been a valuable learning experience. I bought the house through a wholesaler in a t...
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Hello my family of 2 adults and two babies live in a 2 bed apartment for $1250 a month. We need to find something cheaper but the places were finding are not in safe areas. How can we find cheaper rent with not much m...
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We own College student housing and daughter lives there with her friends. We stopped off to drop off items to for our daughter and it’s pretty evident that a boyfriend and his dog are the now staying there too. We sp...
First time poster here. I was directed to this community because of a discussion I was having with a customer at work. I will be as detailed as possible.My wife and I will be looking for a new home in the next 1-2 ye...
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Hello all, Brief background of myself - Im an agent in Las Vegas. Im on BP in hopes to find a business partner, whom is hoping to achieve the same goals as myself. I've got about $35k in capital that I can use to inve...
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I have an REO property under contract. We were scheduled to close tomorrow, but the bank said that the sherrif's sale deed was not filed yet, so I need to wait until it is. In the mean time my broker tells me that i...
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Hey family and friends...I am just starting out in the Portsmouth, VA area but if anyone knows this area knows that the "7 cities" is kind of ONE MAJOR city taken together! So, about me:Previously held my real estat...