Quick background for those who are new to REI: For liability purposes, it is generally preferred to hold real estate in an LLC (so if you're sued, creditors can't touch your personal assets, e.g., savings acct, primar...

I thought I'd start a discussion about rising interest rates, because quite honestly I'm not hearing that much about it, and I'm wondering why. From what I'm observing, it's like the elephant that's NOT in the room, e...

Would you buy this note on several residential homes in the Atlanta market? I haven't done any long term lending in the past, only 1 yr balloons. I guess I'm at risk during a high interest rate environment if one shou...

I am looking for a good book or other media on how to best manage the maintence staff of a 30-year-old low-rise grade B property.      Goals are compliance with HUD inspection requirements, tenant satisfaction, safety...

Hi everyone! I just joined BP and have been reading up the past couple of days. I’m based in Austin and currently in the process of selling our property in Europe which should give us anywhere between 400k to 500k to ...

Sean buying on future appreciation is speculation and a good way to burned in real estate.
Neighborhoods will change with the demand and demand will change due to forces that none of us can forcast.

Looking for feedback from the community in regards to buy and hold cap rates and/or cash on cash returns. I've seen recent transactions across the metro area where investors have purchased properties with cap rates ar...

The June 2022 numbers from the Austin Board of Realtors shows the Austin metro market continuing to cool and stabilize in response to high inflation, rising mortgage interest rates, record high home prices, and rumbli...

Mixed SignalsMany of you are aware of Starwood Capital Group’s $5.4B purchase of 23,262 multifamily units owned by Equity Residential. This comes on the heals of the additional purchase of some 67,800 units during th...

I am looking at a few multi-family properties for buy and hold in Clifton, NJ. They are near the Passaic river flood zone based on a few flood maps that I checked.

I don't know if they were affected in the past, but ...