Clare Pitcher
Flat Rate vs. Percentage Based Managment Fee
Questions for the Property Owners using a Property Management Company: Would you rather have a property management company who has flat rate fees or takes a percentage of the rent?
Account Closed
Atrocious results in Dallas
Is anyone else getting really bad marketing results in Dallas? We spend about $5,000 per month in Direct Mail marketing to over 10,000 owner occupied and non owner occupied leads. We've been mailing for about 6 months...
Samantha M.
Yellow Letters Increase Call Quantity, but how about QUALITY
The yellow letter no doubt increases your call quantity, but does it increase your call QUALITY ?
Invitation style envelopes, hand written fonts and colored blue will all spark interest in and get your mail opened mo...
Nick B.
How objective or subjective is apartment classification (A,B,C)?
Hello BP,Are there any specific set of features that must be present or absent in a certain apartment class?Here are few items that I sometimes get confused about:Age: 0-10 - "A", 11-20 - "B", 21+ - "C" - this is a ge...
Todd McFarland
Unexpected low appraisal
Hello community. I recently purchased a renovated townhome to hold and rent. I negotiated $17.5k off the asking price of $147,500 in hopes to get an appraisal value in that range to be able to finance with little to n...
Robert Piller
When buying properties in another state, how do you analyze and view them?
When buying remotely in Texas, where I have I have enough properties in several cities, I use my maintenance man to work up an estimate and I know comps for these towns. I also use them to show my houses for me (th...
Jordan A.
First Time Investment Property Buyer- Where Would You Buy?
My business partner and I are brand new to real estate investing but not new to housing. We have both been in the residential construction industry for the last 10 years and I worked in maintenance at apartments for 3...
Ruth Schrader-Grace
What is better when it comes to a loan for STR, MTR, 2nd home/vacation home?
It's easy to go with conventional as most are versed in that product yet there are so many other options out there. It seems the few lenders I've spoken with all want to direct to conventional vs anything else. Is it ...
Sam Mahmood
How to choose where to invest out of state
I'm in Los Angeles and want to make the jump investing out of state into an area that has a profitable cash on cash return. How did you guys make your first jump to choose your location? I'm Looking for a quality team...
Terry Portier
Why are contractors part of the problem not solution?
I read too often contractors are more of the problem rather solution to investment strategies. What if you could find a local contractor service that manged contractors based on customer satisfaction ratings you provi...