Kenneth LaVoie
Annual urge to buy a Florida Condo ...
Hi All,About once a year or so, my wife and I start fantasizing about buying a condo near the ocean in Florida. She spent most of her adult life in Hudson (near Tampa), and my Dad used to own Captain Tony’s, and owned...
Karthik Bujuru
PM or Self Manage First Rental Property
Hello BP,I am going to close on my first SFR in Phoenix area in a month and I am trying to identify best route to rent and manage it. Should I hire a PM to manage since this is my first rental and I am out of state or...
Mindy Jensen
House Flips hit 10-yr high! What do you think about the market?
Was anyone flipping houses back in 2008? I got caught mid-flip and my projected returns were cut in half when I finally sold.Fast forward to today, and flips made up more than 6% of home sales last year, according to...
Matthew Thompson
I don't see how this is sustainable
Hello, I just finished "The Book on Rental Property Investing". I enjoyed reading the book, I found it very inspiring and informative and I appreciate how the book shows you real world examples on how you can build yo...
Jag Sekhon
Investing Out of State?
As someone looking to buy their first buy-and-hold investment property sometime within the next year or two, it's really disheartening analyzing properties in my area. I live in San Jose (right in the heart of the ...
Daniel Torres
Investing in syndication vs owning single family homes
Hi All, My current situation is one that I have a fair amount of capital but not a lot of time. I’m considering investing in syndications vs buying single family homes. The syndications appeal to me because of the...
K S.
My 100k house vs 100k in the S&P 500 (16 years later)
A turnkey home for 100k renting for 1k (1% rule) would net you worse than the stock market 16 years later. I went back through my 1099s and calculated my return and estimated closing costs, federal taxes, capital gain...
Giani Brussich
Please help me understand why STR is considered evil by locals?
If this is the wrong place for this, please remove it.Recently, I have seen a lot of threads/posts come up on social media (I know, not very reliable or the truth) about how bad/hated STR is for local neighborhoods. W...
Mark Shaffar
Would you rather buy a $40k rehabbed rental in a C neighborhood or $55k in a B?
I'm curious about neighborhoods as it relates to turnkey/ buy, fix, hold purchases. Most of us have preferences for A, B, C, or D neighborhoods when it comes to investing and rule out the others. My hunch though is th...
Daniel Lehman
All cash or financing?!?
Hello, I am a new member to BP and currently saving up to invest in real estate with my cousin as a partner (also currently working on getting my real estate license). We decided on renting out small multi-families to...