Michael Challenger
First Time (Potential Buyer) Seeking Advice on House Flipping in Charlotte, NC
I recently came across a property through an agent with attractive numbers for a house flip. We have had brief discussion regarding general Q&A information, and proceeded to provide an ARV price range that would b...
Jim Froehlich
SEO or PPC - If you had to choose
If you were really being stingy with your marketing budget (like me) and you had to choose between SEO or PPC (or neither) to generate leads (motivated sellers and cash buyers), what would you choose? If someone has ...
Vee L.
Separate entities to manage vacation rentals?
I'm in Houston, TX. I have a few Short-term vacation rentals that owned by an LLC. I have been managing them in this existing LLC. I plan on scaling up and adding a few more of these. Should I create a property manage...
Phineas Howie
How Good is Zillow's "Zestimate" of Home Value
While using the site Zillow to browse for multi family investment properties I have noticed what they call their "Zestimate." (their estimation of the home's value) I would like to know how useful other investors hav...
Daniel Netzer
CoC returns in todays high rate environment?
What's a reasonable cash-on-cash Short Term Rental return with 7.5% rates nowadays? Feels like 12-15% is solid, while we expect to refinance in the years ahead at a point or two lower. Any strong opinions?
Charlotte Chew
Rent collection suggestions?
Ive had my town home rented out since March and this is my first experience being a landlord. I did screening through Zillow Rental Manager and got my rental agreement from BP. Ive picked up rent several times in cash...
Nicholas Varner
Big Data in Real Estate
In today's post, I want to use experience I've had in two fields that I really love: databases and real estate. Specifically, with databases I want to go over new techniques using more data and varieties of data as it...
Derrick Lubomski
Build a garage or save my cash?
Hey BP members, I'm in sort of a predicament that could use some outside input. I'm closing on my first duplex for me to house hack in two weeks and can't decide if it'l be worth it for me to build a detached garage o...
Account Closed
Working from Home: Where will the World Go?
Living in a new age of people working and learning from home!I recently listened to the BP Podcast episode 380 (Go check it out!), and they brought up an interesting point. Many people are working from home, so I'm cu...
John Underwood
VRBO and AIRBNB inquiries, Airbnb is creating unapproved discount
I Received inquires from HA/VRBO for Memorial day weekend within 20 minutes of each other. I have both set at $450/night. The HA/VRBO quote is correct, but AIRBNB quoted $415.25/night. I found where there is a weekly ...