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I pulled my list 30%+ equity, 3-5 bedrooms, absentee owners.The farm area is sitting at 34k households in total, of that amount 5,500 are absentee owners! 16% of the homes in farm area are NOO!I'm wondering is there a...
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Hi! I'm under contract to purchase a home in a ski resort town. The place needs a ton of updating but is quite large (7 bedrooms/5 baths) and I see incredible potential. It has a separate 1-bedroom apartment attached...
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Hello Everyone,I finally created an account! It is now time to get serious about my real estate investing goals. I hope to make my first real estate investment within the next 9 months. Due to my work and family situa...
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Hi everyone,My wife and I are new investors looking to purchase our 1st out of state investment and are very interested in STR.We've been looking at properties around Lake Royale in Louisburg NC (we heard from family ...
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Is a vacation rental in Kissimmee / Davenport a bad idea? Prices seem to be rising but there is so much inventory. Is it possible to make money on a mortgaged property? I’m thinking 4 bed pool home...
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No, not selling timeshares. A real question about them. I've never seriously considered timeshares. I've worked hard in numerous places to avoid timeshare salesmen. Amazingly, the same techniques that work with be...
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I'm interested in buying a lake house in Northern, or possibly mid-Michigan. I have rented a few for vacations on HomeAway, and now I'd like to just own one myself for use a couple of weeks a year and hopefully have i...
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Hello BP Community! A group of investors and myself are looking to diversify into the short term rental market. Our focus is an STR out in the ski resort areas of Colorado. In particular, we’d like to focus our attent...
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I am trying to calculate potential returns on a short term investment property, specifically a Pensacola Beach rental. I’ve nailed down rates per season but I’m not sure how to figure occupancy. For those of you tha...