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Achieving financial freedom through real estate investing involves several key steps and strategies. Although no two people have the same experience while starting out, here’s a structured approach to help you get sta...
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Well today turned out to be one of 'those' days.
Rental house #1: Furnace breaks down, requires $300 to fix
Rental house #2: Hot water tank sprouts a major leak, needs replaced, $500
New Rental House #3: Disco...
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My LLC is up and running and ready to go. I am super excited and so are my members. My question is, if we want to buy our first rental what is the best way to startup. Do we buy cash/or finance under the LLC entity or...
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I am looking at what looks like a great BRRRR property, but my real estate agents says i cannot enter the property because it has fire damage. Who should i contact in my city to discuss possibly entering the house and...
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There was a house that came on the market that I went to view and saw it had a notice from the county that said it is not fit for human habitation. I contacted the county to see what the issue or code violation was b...
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I'm finally ready to post about some initial success after hundreds of hours of forum reading, podcasts, local RE meetups, etc.The deals:1) 75 x 95 lot in Paterson, NJ with a billboard. The lot has never been develop...
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Tenant moved out, according to the security deposit disposition from PM that they own ~$6000. This is including last 2 months of rent, repairs, hauling big size trashes and cleaning. As of this amount and I live in CA...
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Hello BP!I am an out of state investor learning the North Charleston area as I have a friend in the Navy school in Goose Creek. BRRRR is my go-to strategy so lower price points are good, but avoiding the roughest neig...
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I finally have an accepted contract in the Denver, CO area (woohoo!) and we are in the due diligence phase. After several requests, we got 8 downloads for HOA documents but for some reason the most recent Homeowners A...
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We had a pleasant emergency HOA special assessment meeting this week. Due to updated CA codes & regulations, coupled with the lack of foresight & planning by the HOA Management & Board, our complex has to ...