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I live in Portland, OR, and am looking for my first house hack. My initial goal was to find a duplex or SFR to rent out so I could live for free. As I look more into the Portland metro area market, I am having trouble...
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I'm working with my dad on an upcoming project of his: building tiny-ish homes on his farm (400 to 600 sqft each). The plan is to build 3 homes: 2 for long term rentals and 1 for STR. Land is already his and paid for...
Hello friends, I'm brand new to real estate investing. Based on my research, Promissory notes seem to be a good passive income with around 10 - 15% returns. Here are some of the websites, that I've researched so far: ...
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Hi Everyone,I'm cold calling pre-foreclosures and I'm having a bit of trouble with my approach. At first, I was approaching them as a real estate investor that buys homes for all cash and etc, but I noticed that I wo...
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I bought a house in Austin, TX in July with full cash and spent about $60K renovating the property. I have a buyer for this property, and we are scheduled to close next month. My title company alerted me that the pape...
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I bought my first duplex in Pittsburgh last July. Tenants were already in place. Downstairs tenant was almost always late, but eventually paid the rent and late fee. I am an out-of-town landlord--my brother, who li...
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Hello,I won two properties on auction.comBoth have judgements on them as per the preliminary title report and doing my due diligence I found at clerks office.Property 1) 8k lien from credit cardProperty 2) 2k and anot...
I have seen several conversations lately which have had some form of Due On Sale or Alienation Clause concept in them. As such I want to address the topic and provide a little opinion as well.
First let's start wi...
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Every day I spend some time in the morning getting up to speed on the latest state of the real estate market by reading various news outlets, listening to economists, looking at data around inflation/inventory/rates, ...
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I have decided so far not to create a LLC for each property, instead using a good insurance. Also because getting loans is complicated in LLC and there are fees for each LLC (just $800 per year franchise tax in Califo...