Colin White
Real Estate Investment vs. Stock Market Investment
Would anyone like to explain to me some of the benefits\drawbacks of both of these types of investments? It seems to me that when starting out, REI seems to require far more money than investment in stocks.
I read t...
Matt Friedman
New Member From Los Angeles
Hello BP forum! I have been learning a lot from this site in just the last few hours that I have joined. It is definitely overwhelming with the amount of information loaded on this site. I am eager to start REI, sp...
Dick Green
Communism
Communism - short definition: a political, social, and economic system in which the state, governed by an elite party control production, labor, distribution, and largely, the social and cultural life and thought of ...
Marco G.
I'm a bonehead(?): I agreed to PM suggested large rent increase
I purchased a number of adjoining properties mid last year. This unit came tenant in place on their first year lease. My first lease renewal of 2016 comes up next month and PM suggested a 9+% rent increase. I was very...
Tania Reuben
Investors Who Survived 2008-11: How Did you Make It Through?
Inspired by @Brian Burke's harrowing story of surviving the economic meltdown, I'd love to learn what other lesson's people gained through that time. Many survived, some thrived, lost it all... While I don't think we...
James Cash
Anchorage Alaska RE Economy
I just wanted to open up this discussion and see how everyone feels in the Anchorage, AK community of Real Estate here on BP.It seems to me that a lot of people in the lower 48 feel a shift coming in the RE economy. P...
Brandon Turner
The Government is dropping my rent 10% ... should I let them? (What would YOU do?)
Here is a situation I'd love your feedback on: My first rental property (the Kurt Cobain house) has had a little old lady living there since I moved out 6 years ago. She has been paying $510 pretty much all along. The...
Vitaliy Merkulov
Sell my CA Home, get $100k to invest into cashflow multi-family?
I listened to Thursday's BP podcast #238 where guest Michael Swan talked about selling his condo in San Diego and buying a multi-family cash-flow property. I own a house in Sacramento, CA where I live, I bough it for ...
Rabih El-Khoury
Cash Flow Potential from $120k/yr for 10 Years?
In your experience, could one possibly hit the $24,000 monthly net-after-tax rental income mark in ten years time if: (1) they had $120,000 at their disposal every single year to invest for the next 10 years; (2) they...
Kevin Moules
Where in CA are you investing for CF , or are you?
Hello BP members!I am new to REI and joined BP several months ago. We live inTurlock, CA and are looking for buy and hold multi family opportunities for cash flow. Although not opposed to SFH (just want to scale faste...