Investment Info:

Single-family residence fix & flip investment.

Purchase price: $290,000

Cash invested: $180,000

Sale price: $690,000

This 2,750sq ft home on the Santa Rosa Sound had been sev...

Creating standards to get rid of bleeding heart syndrome…
As we continued to work through our renovation standards, we began to define our leasing standards. It was a very analog process, but, luckily, Natalie loved ...

I've read a number of discussions on BP regarding the pros and cons of renting to Section 8 tenants. My personal synopsis of what I've read is that success/satisfaction with the Section 8 program distills to a handful...

Analyzing a few 5+ unit deals in an ultra small market, where even local commercial brokers and lenders say “we don’t really use market cap rates, we just order a third party appraisal” to determine value. I have “ac...

Does anyone know how to calculate taxes on a sfh purchase in Miami dade?
I went to the county property assessor website and the amount came out to more than 3 times what the current owners are paying!
Is this accura...

Hi Bigger Pockets Members,

I’m curious to get the opinion of some other landlords. On December 29th I got a text from one of my tenants saying that they were having problems with the HVAC system. It’s a two story u...

Seems like most posts on here are about the "How" of real estate investing, but not as much about the "Why."

So why do you invest? Is it just to have more and more income? Is it to reach a certain amount of cash flow...

The time has come for an annual lease renewal on one of our SFH rentals.  We contact the tenants and they are interested in renewing with one request.  They want the interior main floor repainted.  They have been in t...

In the "inland empire" CA it appears that the buying depression is over,, I am making an offer on a 3/2 house in my hood and the first day it was listed (yesterday) the front of the house looks like the disneyland pa...

All,I am currently honing my strategy for buying my first property. I have a goal of being financially independent in 7-10 years. My current dilemma is whether or not to buy my first property with intent to rent it ou...