Mark Villanueva
New Graduate From UC Berkeley
Hi all,My name is Mark Villanueva. I just graduated Cal Berkeley with a degree in Political Econ. focusing on international business trade and labor. My previous experience includes working with Citibank and interning...
Daniel Feldman
New LA Agent Intro Mid Century and Investors
Hi All,I've been a BP Pro member for a year now. After closing my clothing business in December I was heavily focused on REI and in my effort to learn as much as possible about RE ended up getting my license. I'm curr...
Chen Zhou
Recent transactions for SFHs with ADUs in the Bay Area
For a lot of you, whether to build an ADU or not depends on the resale value/appraised value after the ADU construction. The same applies to me - I personally built an attached 630 sqft ADU in San Jose back in 2019 (m...
Brittany D.
Door Egress Clearance Width
Planning to rent out SFH. I understand we need a COO. If they come and see the door egress clearance width is not the 32" after we renovated (I think its 28"), would this prevent me from renting out my home? What do ...
Karl Eisenhofer
Commercial Insurance for vacation rental
My vacation home has slowly been morphing into a short term rental property. I recently asked my agent to upgrade my insurance to cover this use model. D'oh! My insurance company doesn't cover such use and now want...
Bradley Scruggs
Utilizing a FHA 203k loan to purchase 4 unit property
Investment Info:
Small multi-family (2-4 units) buy & hold investment in N Kingstown.
Purchase price: $560,000
Cash invested: $130,000
2 duplexes located on almost a 4 acre lot in North Kingstown...
Char Silk
First Sheriff Sale with a POOL!
Investment Info:
Single-family residence fix & flip investment in Elk City.
Purchase price: $92,000
Cash invested: $8,500
Sale price: $153,000
This was a sheriff sale property that my husband...
Sean Walton
My Developer Friendly Architecture Firm
Hi all,
I work at brick architect and interiors (dba brick.). We are a growing firm doing a lot of cool projects all over the Bay Area. Our start was all developer driven 50,000 to 200,000 SF building. We are mor...
Joe San
Knob and Tube in Old house
Hello all, In closing right now for an old duplex, one of the issues that worries me is the house was built originally in the mid 1800's and although has been renovated many times I know it had Knob and Tube electric ...
Konstantin Komkov
commercial office space
Hello, I am new to commercial side of real estate. I am looking at how commercial office space is appraised. There are around 50 similar commercial office spaces, when they were build in 1990's they all were sold at a...