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Hello folks. My question has to do with interest buydown. Is there a minimum interest rate? I know other factors such as location, dp, prequel are used. For example. 8.125 % do wn to say 5%. Doable and how much? ...
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Hello everyone! My name is Stephen Drew and I am a 29 year old father who is here to learn and grow with all of you smart people. A goal of mine is to be financially independent by 35 so that I can be there for my da...
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Good afternoon BP!Is anyone familiar and have experience with working with List-ability or list source in retrieving phone numbers to contact motivates sellers or do those resources only provide addresses of homes? If...
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Hi BP,Can I ask you all what are all your monthly reoccurring expenses for your STR? Like cleaners, cable, internet, etc?Thank you!Gulliver
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https://www.attomdata.com/news/market-trends/u-s-foreclosure-activity-down-24-percent-in-august-2019-14th-consecutive-month-over-month-decline/Ignore their very misleading headline and take a close look at paragraphs ...
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So after two years of saving, investing, rinse, wash and repeat. I've almost hit my goal of 100K, expecting to reach the goal 1st quarter of 2020, 1/10th of the way to a million (whoop whoop). All that joy aside thoug...
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We all know there is risk owning real estate, I wanted to share some thoughts on tenant risks, which seem to scare people the most. Please reply with what you have done to minimize this type of risk! Let's build a g...
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Tenant in my Washington state rental moved out and we find out an active leak underneath the kitchen sink. It looks like its been leaking for some time now as it has damaged the cabinet underneath. The tenant mentione...
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Hello BP!It's been a few months since I've posted on here, but I am happy to share that after years of analysis and paralysis I finally took a huge leap into R.E! My old colleague and I started an LLC in Vegas NV wher...
I notice that water is paid by the landlord sometimes. Why and how would this benefit the landlord?