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Hello dear amazing real estate lovers I was recently surprised to look at dwindled real estate market of Dubai in recent times, at the same time UK construction economy is catching up and if we look at London industry...
I want to start with my first deal out of state, but I've been looking a lot of houses and neighborhoods but the ones I qualified with a conventional loan has to be livable, so I can't buy something that I can gain eq...
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Savvy apartment Real Estate Investors know that the most common benchmark for measuring returns and gauging pricing for commercial real estate is the cap rate. The cap rate is the annual return that investors receive ...
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I am a Real Estate agent in the DFW area. We are wanting to begin our investment portfolio using the BRRRR method or via new construction. However, we need assistance in figuring out where the down payment will come f...
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Hi BP,
I joined recently and this place is so helpful. I’m a newbie to real estate investing and currently living in Fremont,CA. Because of COVID, I’m working from home for the past year, and most possibly I would be...
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My investment property had a fire and burned down... To be more exact, only half of the house caught fire and the other half got the water and smoke damage from the firemen and all that.The place is uninhabitable; ten...
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I’ve been researching alternative financing options for my second property. I have seen that New American Funding, Newfi, and Griffin Funding have a 40 year mortgage with the first 10 years being interest only while t...
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I attended a local REI meetup last night and the guest speaker was an auctioneer with 37 years of experience in RE investing. He was selling a strategy of buying properties on cheap because they were good for nothing ...
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I'm looking at buying a property to house hack that needs an extensive rehab. I'm looking into using the 203k program so I don't have to pull the rehab funds out of my savings. Plus I plan on doing a good bit of the w...
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I have read it is a good idea to have a cost segregation done I have found a few companies but what should I be looking for in a cost seg firm?