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Hello all,As a wholesaler, what are your options when you have a dilapidated property under contract needing a full gut rehab that might exceed the ARV? Rehab is about $100K. I have a small brick multi family building...
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Hi everyone,My girlfriend and I are planning to move to the Saint Paul, MN area in about a year and we, like many others, are hoping to house hack a duplex. However I want to analyze properties as if I was buying them...
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Financial Independence Retire Early (FIRE). It seems to be everywhere these days. I just heard on a podcast that there is a movie coming out in a few months about the FIRE movement - which sounds awesome. I'm sure ...
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I live Austin Texas and its a sellers market here right now. Most everything is bought cash and above the asking price. I would like to look to other markets to invest in Texas. I'm just wondering what are my limit...
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This seems to be a widely held mantra here. If you buy in a high appreciation market, you're not investing, you are speculating. That's not something I have ever heard here in Hawaii. Probably because it's not true...
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Especially @James Hamling , just read a market statistic and its mind blowing.The age of first time home buyer in California is now 49 years old, in 1980 it used to be 32 years old.In TX: 37 years old and FL is 42 ...