Brian Stieler
BRRRR and making the numbers work
I've been steadily mailing my yellow letters, and have actually had a dozen phone calls (woot!). With these leads I'll do by due diligence by going through the following steps:Get the sellers desired price and gauge m...
Richard Warren
How The Fed Rate Cut Could Hurt
Here is an interesting article on the Fed rate cut. It shows how it could hurt housing.
http://biz.yahoo.com/cnnm/080318/031408_ratecut_mortgages.html
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Scott Bartlett
What should I use for coating Metal Roofs (pictures inside)
I know I need to re-coat the roof of my small SFH rental, and I'm planning on using a Elastomeric Roof Coating.
The only question now becomes should I use BLACK (obviously non-reflective), SILVER (reflective) or WHIT...
Jody Sperling
Repairing Credit Score
I've researched deeply on this topic and haven't found much. We had a 815 credit score as of June 2020 when we purchased our first investment property. Though we've continued to pay in full all of our credit cards, an...
Eric Pocker
Adjusting rents on current tenants
My offer on my first rental property was accepted today and I already have a tough decision to make.
The basic info on the property:
-Asking 139,900, they accepted 134,000 and seller pays closing cost.
-Triplex with...
Nicholas Colbert
Land value and purchase price
Can someone help me understand some best ways to value properties.
How do you correctly value land that would have a condemned building on the property. Does this effect the price you would pay because you have to d...
John Williams
Favorite 3 Improvements to add value and boost appraisal
I am doing a rehab project on a triplex. I have a small budget of $10-15k. However, if I had the money I could easily find uses for $30k in improvements (Debating between aesthetic and functional improvements). For ex...
Tyson Davis
Putting full lease's rent down as security deposit
I live in FL and am currently looking to rent a luxury apartment in downtown tampa. I've had my current job for 2 1/2 yrs making 75K per year and have a clean background but before I had my current job I was unemploye...
Jessica H.
Curb appeal and yards
I know we spend a lot of time talking about what we are doing on the inside of our flips but what about the exteriors? How much money/effort do you put into that? What are your best tips for curb appeal to make buy...
Neil Anthony Giscombe
We can only hope for lower interest rates to alleviate some of the consumers concerns
These are just layoff announcements over the past month, and there are several more. The average consumer is some what aware of these layoff trends, inflation, higher interest rates, and higher home prices. We can hop...