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Hello BP Community,My name is Randy Hicks and my wife and I are interested in getting started in real estate investment. This is something that we've been committed to for a year now. We've read a lot and feel like we...
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I welcome any and all ideas and critiques regarding this issue. Please comment or PM me if you have any thoughts. Good or bad. :-)
I am installing a 15.6 megawatt Grid Tied solar system on my 30 unit apartment com...
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Hi Guys,
I have one million dollars in cash to invest in flipping homes. shall I flip a bigger number of small value houses or fewer bigger value houses? I.e. Shall I diversify more with less risk or focus my...
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Hey all,
So I was looking at a 10-unit multi-family property the other day online and it was advertising an 8 CAP. But when I ran the numbers, the CAP rate I got was closer to 6. When I asked the broker where the 8 CA...
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Hi everyone, I’m currently a new investor wanting to purchase my first rental property. I live in a Suburb outside of Saint louis and I’ve found homes in the saint louis area fully turn key renovated property single f...
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How many properties does a person need to hold to justificy 750 hours? For example if you own a two family house and rent both units it would be hard to justify that you worked 750 hours to maintain this. IRS does not...
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What is the best way for someone who is currently working a full-time, 9-6 job to begin working part time as an agent, with the hopes of building a book of business over time to transition to a full-time career as a R...
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I recently went through the full process of acquiring a property through Roofstock (www.roofstock.com). I haven't seen many reviews out there on them, so I wanted to provide one myself. My deal fell through at the las...
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I'm considering a REI strategy centered around buy and hold, cash flow investing in condos.
I would like to hear from the community what the potential pluses and minuses are with such a strategy. I am aware ...
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I am in the process of screening a potential tenant, he told me he had a felony from 15 years, he offered to explain but I didn't wanna push unless necessary. After doing a background check on him I found out he is re...