Trevor Brunckhorst
1st timer, looking for assistance.
Hello all. Thank you in advance to anyone who takes the time to respond to this thread or help me understand. I've never invested in any real estate. In fact, I bought my primary residence June 4th. I primarily wo...
Brad Ruttenberg
How I've decided to get started
Hey everyone. I thought it would be helpful to document my thought process as I start in real estate investing...mainly for myself but maybe it will help others somehow. Learn from my mistakes, but hopefully my succes...
Joe Colasuonno
Single Family Rentals at 24-32% Cap Rates
I got into real estate investing in 2008-2009 after selling a business I had started in college for about 50k. My father was a builder for 20 years, so I've always been around real estate, but up until then neither he...
Anil Samuel
2nd FL Rental Property - LESSONS LEARNED
Background:So I just got a tenant in my 2nd rental property. I closed on May 23rd, 2013. Tenant moved in on July 19th, 2014. There were some things I had to take care of: change front and rear door locks, replace m...
Anthony Caleca
Raising Money for a new devlopment
Hey so i have posted about 2 or 3 months ago about getting into the devlopment side of real estate with my father, we where looking to devlop a small to medium size luxury complex in NYC (where we live) but raising mo...
David Jones
Occupancy Duration with Month-to-Month vs. Fixed-Term Leases
There seems to be a general assumption that longer occupancy durations can be achieved by using fixed-term leases (e.g. 1 year) as opposed to month-to-month leases. However, despite spending quite a bit of time on Goo...
James Bordeaux
Pickle in a Fix and Flip
Hi Everyone,
So, I took the plunge. I bought a house (Tax Lien). Last year. 8 to 10 weeks to renovate, but I got road blocked with a redemption and lost about 2.5 months of work and holding costs. Then house gets bro...
Jay Helms
Time to re-invest in a 401K?
Some time ago, I stopped contributing to my day job's 401k. I wanted to take every penny I earned and make it available for REI - the annual 1.25% increase over the last decade wasn't cutting it from the 401k. Howeve...
Lauren Kormylo
VRBO Photo Debacle
I got an email from Vrbo on Feb. 27th saying, "In the upcoming weeks, you may see the primary image on your listing and the order of your image gallery change. That’s because we are gradually launching a new AI featur...
Wendy Man
Minneapolis rent stabilization working group
"Minneapolis group recommends strict rent-control plan to City Council"The group split with 14/25 voting to recommend a strict rent-control plan like the one that St. Paul passed last year, and 11/25 to recommend a pl...