Yazan Ayyash
What is the minimum cashflow you would accept for a rental?
Brandon recently said that $200 of cashflow after expenses (including mortgage) on a house is a homerun. I am aware that different markets produce different results, but what is the minimum amount of cashflow you woul...
Steven C. Suarez
Duped in Dallas by $30k wannabe guru!
Earlier this year my good friend paid $30k to a Dallas real estate guru to finally get started in real estate at the ripe young age of 55. After the course, the gurus convinced him to put his entire retirement into 2 ...
Adam Rothweiler
Practicing Analysis on 4-Family Foreclosure, Beast or Bust?
Hi BP community,I'm struggling to understand why this deal screams so loudly at me. Hesitancy has gotten the better of me and I'm surely missing something in my analysis here (<-- hyperlink to report). It's a for...
Jeromy Jordan
would you buy a duplex from a slumlord?
Hi BP Community,I think I found a good duplex to purchase for house hacking that works number wise. This will be my first investment so I am trying to make sure it goes well to set me up for future investments. I di...
Account Closed
What is the best RE strategy for people with a "full-time" day job?
Hello everyone,
If a person has cash that they would like to put to work in RE but can only devote less then 10 hours a week to RE work (because of requirements from their regular job)...what strategy would you sugge...
Nicholas Mahon
Individual owner vs LLC vs Corporation
Hi BP Carebears!My girlfriend and I are looking into buying the first of many income properties. We'll be taking it slow to start by doing the House Hack technique, but we would like to eventually build a nice portfol...
Mike Kohan
Investor from the Okanaga Valley, British Columbia
Hi. My name is Mike Kohan, I'm a husband and father, a career helicopter pilot and now real estate investor. I started investing in real estate 5 years ago with a lease/option purchase close to home for a tenant, wh...
Richard Galdieri
Paid Mentorship or Go It Alone?
Hello BPeeps. There is a company in my area that's run by a couple of guys who offer a year long "paid mentorship" on house flipping. I'm a realtor and have done the equivalent of a flip but on 2 different houses a...
Nick B.
Do C class property only attract C class tenants and what to do about it?
Hello BP!I keep reading on BP and elsewhere that renting to high quality tenants is the most important risk control a landlord can have. There were a few BP blog posts on this topic with the main idea that if you want...
Natalie Mil
My first real estate buy; gone wrong
Last year I was in Miami on holiday and thought I might try my hand at real estate.
I'm Australian and I heard other people from Australia and Canada doing well in US property.
I bought a duplex in N...