The neighbors of some family of mine are selling a SFH, maybe worth around $400k if it was fixed up, but is in bad shape due to foundation issues. Currently getting bids off the engineer's report to estimate foundatio...

Some people mentioned that when you are buying a house you should get a "Buyer Agent". So as I see it:Seller Agent - negotiation the largest price possible for the house to satisfy his seller needsBuyer Agent - negoti...

For context , I'm a first time home buyer, and I plan on living on one of the detached units, but this calc is for when I move out in a year or so and rent out all units. I still plan on managing the property myself.V...

newbie question

What is IRR?

How is it calculated? Do you guys use it?

Matt

I live near St Louis,MO and see so many big old homes for sale in the $20,000 to 40,000 range. What advise would you give to a newbie looking to get started? The zip code I am referring to is 63115. I am looking fo...

There was another thread on the site in the making deals forum which contained a lot of great discussion, but which became way too contentious, so we closed it.

I wanted to start another discussion about investing in...

Hello BP community,I am new to buy and hold investing and have being doing as much reading and learning as possible while looking for deals to get started with. I came across an opportunity involving purchasing duplex...

Should I find a new real estate agent?Small Multi family deals are hard to find in Atlanta, not seeing many deals that are even close to the 1% rule. I ran a property I was looking at through my spreadsheet that accou...

Hey All!  I am interested in investing in tax liens.  Several years ago I read Michael Pellegrino's book on Tax Liens but unfortunately I cannot find it anywhere in my home!  I *think* I remember that in the book, he ...