Eric H.
Anyone familiar with property taxes in the Cleveland area?
I'm currently looking to buy a house in the Cleveland area that has some massive cash flow potential but it seems the property taxes just dropped 45% this last year.
For the last 10 years or so the property taxes wer...
Michael Eng
Are points on a mortgage worth it?
I am looking to get a rental property that cost 150k, putting 25% down. Using a 30 year fixed, I can either pay an interest rate of 4.5%, or I can pay 2 points and get a rate of 3.85%. Is it worth it to pay the points...
Joseph Pytcher
Starting a HML Company here in DFW - Seeking Advice
So a bit of background. I've been in real estate for almost 17 years. I've been a licensed lender since 2008 and have flipped hundreds of homes. Starting a hard money lending company makes sense to me since I have hun...
Chris Gordon
Bad Wholesalers - Why we will all be getting licensed soon.
I am just amazed at the incompetence of some wholesalers.
Last night I put under contract a house in Ky that "Sincere Home Buyers" of Georgia backed out of yesterday. I don't mind putting their name out here.
The s...
Chad Cherry
Rookie Buying a STR in the Phoenix Area
Hi BP Phoenix! #Rookie here. My wife and I live in the North Phoenix area and are looking to buy our first rental property. We are about to close on a fixed-rate Home Equity loan on our primary house, which we plan to...
Kyle B.
Critique My ListSource Criteria... First Time Doing This
Hello BP. I was hoping to get some advice from the direct mailing experts out there. I will be purchasing an address list from ListSource, and after running through their options, below is the criteria list I came up ...
Abhishek Prateek
How to deal with tenants running behind on rent?
I have a tenant who hasn’t paid last month’s rent, and next month rent is due soon as well. What are some things that have worked well for landlords in this situation? I am WA.
Jessica Young
Ex tenants from Florida condo refuse to give forwarding address, traveling overseas
I have no way to give the notice to these tenants that I'm withholding a small portion of their deposit. They broke the lease early (happy clause), and the FL statute says under that condition "Failure to give such no...
Jason Woods
RE market still going strong in Seattle, but I'm getting nervous
I just accepted a full price offer on a property we listed 5 days ago in the Bellevue/Eastside of Seattle area. This is a property we acquired a year ago, it's a fix-upper in a conveniently located neighborhood, the p...
Max H.
Buy and Hold with Older Homes
I live in the Philadelphia area where the housing stock is pretty old. A lot of the homes are 100+ years old now. I'm 28 and thinking of buying a triplex that was built in 1910, I would ideally hold this property for ...