Steven Smith
Purchasing A 4 Unit Property With Negative Cash Flow. Bad Idea?
Hello Everyone. I'm in the process of closing on a 4 unit building in CA in which I will live in one of the units. I will be raising rents about 8% since the current owner hasn't raised rents in a long time. Even if I...
Shalom Wininger
Some questions on starting house flipping
Hi,My name is Shalom Wininger. I am new to real estate and am trying to start off by doing fix and flips. I did research into it and am very familiar with it and how it works. I just have no experience at all. I am ...
Rachel N.
How to find a new, RELIABLE online payment service?
For rental payments, I have been using erentpayment.com, but due to the issues that have just surfaced regarding fraud, I need to find another vendor. In short, for those who haven't been following the discussion, a l...
Andrew Faulkner
Dumb question about buying notes from newbie
I have around $250k to play with, and I'm considering buying notes off FCI. Can anyone tell me what I'm missing? Many of the 1st position notes (non-performing) sell for a fraction of the value of the property. It s...
Jen L.
What's your avg move-out reno cost? Still cash flowing?
Hi investors,My first tenant moved out after 7 years and it is costing me $7-8k to fix! What's your average move-out reno cost? And how many years of cash flow is it wiping out? This is my first move-out and I"m fi...
Pedro Gonzalez
Government's Financial Rescue Plan, Will It Energize The Weak Real Estate Market?
The Bush administration developed an effort to confront the worst U.S. financial crisis in decades, describing a plan that could cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars to buy up bad mortgages and other toxic d...
Anthony Wick
How you making any money at that price?!
More duplexes for sale. More 4 plexes for sale. More properties I’m getting outbid on. My numbers tell me what to bid, but what are these other people’s numbers telling them?!I’m a standard 20% down, 5% interest, 25 y...
Jason Merchey
How Do Syndicated Apartment Holds Fail?
I'm looking into investing a good amount of cash in my first syndicated apartment deal. Buy-fix-reposition-hold. I am imagining there are about 25-50 fairly sophisticated individuals involved on the equity side, maybe...
Michaela G.
Why airbnb can kiss my butt
Ok, so I understand that everyone's situation, property, location is different and thus I'm stressing that this was just my own personal experience and I'm over it - after only 2 weeks ;-)Beginning of the year I decid...
Mike G.
Investor carrot or lead propeller?
Hi guys n gals. So right to the point. I had the M5 for a while and it was good but it was expensive. I want to hear from members of the BP community. I'm a wholesaler.... new but educated. Has anyone here used inves...