Carolina S.
Capital Gains or High Interest Rates
Hello BP community.
I'm in the DC/ VA area and I'm under contract in one of my properties. I'm thinking of doing a 1031 exchange with it. If go that route, I would need to spend about $850k total. If don't do a 1031...
Jeff S.
Second water meter in a duplex
Old Portland duplex with single water line. Have owned many years and always wanted to add a second line but the cost.Would you EVER consider spending $17,800 to save $2493 per year in water cost? We do know that wat...
John Hodson
Should Tenant Pay for Landscaping If They Want It For My SFH?
Hi All BPers!I need some guidance. My tenant wants to level the backyard before the annual weed and feed. Below are pictures of the yard. It is uneven as you can see. They wanted to rent a tiller at first which I ques...
Jeffery Waicak
Habits of wealthy people
I was looking at Grant cordone' s Twitter. He said that something like 68% of wealthy people do cardio 4x a week 26% of poor people do. 90% of wealthy people read 30 minutes a day. 2% of poor people do. What other h...
Andrew Postell
Fort Worth Spending Millions To Turn Around Stop Six Neighborhood
As one of our more "challenged" neighborhoods the Stop 6 area also provides some opportunities to us investors. It's good to see some real improvement being done by the city to roads and sidewalks (and police cameras...
Brian Oney
To Upgrade or Not for Selling?
We are currently working on preparing our former first-home-turned-rental-house to sell. We are getting a new exterior paint job and touching up the outside (replacing broken sidewalk and fixing negative drainage)....
Adam Craig
BRRRR - Am I over improving my rentals?
I am wondering if I am over-improving some of my rentals with the BRRRR strategy. Specifically regarding painting cabinets instead of replacing them and putting in shower surround instead of tile. Normally we have br...
NA Qayyum
Hoa financials look alarming?
Hi, i am looking to put an offer on the condo but i am alarmed after looking at the financials. It seems to be like the condo is heavily in debt and spending huge chunk of condo fees towards interest payment. Is this ...
Wayne Freeman
question? about the 2% rule
the 2% rule says that a 100,000 house... You need to get 2,000 in rent.
What if you get a 100,000 house and you spend 40,000 on rehap. Now do you do the 2% rule on the 140,000. Or you still do it on the pu...
Megan Wilkerson
Inheriting an Apartment Complex in Riviera/Westchester
I live in Orange County and I'm inheriting outright a 10 unit apartment complex in the Riviera/Westchester area of Bakersfield near downtown. I was planning on selling the unit, but after doing some research I decided...