If you haven't uploaded a profile pic, I want to encourage you to do so. It gives other posters a better idea of who they're answering, and makes the site more personal. Imagine if nobody had a pic!! I can totally und...
Just got back from Belize for a week. Two months ago, was in Sicily/Italy. During these trips we still managed our 7 Self Storage locations remotely from those trips. The following is a summary of key elements to a...
Hey all,I'll try to keep this brief to start. We had to fire our GC on Friday and decided to take a deep breath and a couple of steps back and start from scratch. This means I'm calling contractors myself for all of t...
My wife and I are making offers in an effort to get our first deal. Where it makes sense, we are making cash offers and offering to close faster to get a better price. Unsurprisingly, our agent is asking us to provide...
Hi All,My name is Chad Barson from Westland Michigan right outside of Detroit. I'm just getting into real estate. I work with my parents at our family owned and operated Greenhouse for the passed 20+- years. Looking t...
We currently have 10 doors and are now in the process of buying two buildings with a total of 36 apartments. Our current systems will not work at this scale. We are going to self manage them, for at least a while. I a...
Just giving input to an investor putting their plans together on a new location. Thought I would share. I am not showing their original comments, so some of my comments might seem out of the blue.Our security guy ju...
My wife and I are both veterans with disability ratings (100 and 70). We own a single family in Texas which we have lived in since 2018 and we did a Streamline refi on (Dec 2019). Our daughter (and is paying rent t...
Hi All,I’ve noticed a decent number of multi family units that are listed for sale on Zillow or Redfin etc will have all of two exterior pictures and then a very brief description of the units themselves and then say ...
Hi everyone,My name is Dan and I am from Long Beach, CA. I'm completely new to real estate investing with no previous experience. I currently work in healthcare but would like to invest in real estate on the side. My ...