Sergey Tkachev
How will Hurricane Irma affect the Florida Real Estate Market?
On 9/5 we went into contract on an SFR in Holiday, FL (Colonial Hills subdivision), right before Hurricane Irma. This is the northern part of the Tampa Bay area, which did not see as much damage as the areas more sou...
Marian Smith
Will housing ever return to normal?
NYTimes asks has home buying and how home buyers look at buying fundamentally changed? Austin and Austin home buyers were profiled in this Sundays NYTimes article. I can't post the link but there is a paywall anyway...
Vik Desai
Have any of you tried setting up a for pay hotspot/ WISP to make some money from providing WIFI?
I wasn't sure where to post this, I hope it's the right forum.I've got a friend with a 20 unit trailer park set up, and I was talking to him about setting up a wifi hotspot to make a little extra money on the side.htt...
Thomas Guertin
How often do you raise the rent on Tenants?
I was wondering what other Landlords are doing about raising rents. Do you only raise rents when your costs go up? Do you raise them to be close to market rents? Do you raise them yearly or rarely raise them?I have...
Corey Dutton
Greece to Take Bridge Loan to Restructure Debt
Banks in Greece have been closed since June 29th, an obvious sign that the Country is in complete and utter turmoil. Greece received the honor of being the first major country to default on an IMF loan. With its massi...
Gabriel A.
How negotiable are most REOs?
Obviously this will vary a lot. Can someone just give me a sample number of asking price and final sales price of an REO?
Steven Gore
Does or has anyone done STR’s in this area?
I am thinking about possibly buying a home some where in Orlando/ Kissimmee area as a STR. My price range is $400-$550k. Just wondering if anyone can share there experience doing this. What are you charging per night?...
Ben Leybovich
Car Wash - does anyone own?
Guys,Got a call from a banker. A set of several automated car washes is selling. If anyone owns some car washes, please chime in. Underwriting EBITDA and CF, and I'm starting to develop a basis for understanding, but ...
Jim S
Bid desk rules changing at Home Depot
Was in this evening submitting a fairly large order to the Bid Desk at HD to get one of my projects started. They came back with a $100 discount on an $8000 order. I was stunned. The HD employee at the Bid Desk told m...
Chandra Yates
Grounds for suing a property management company
I own an investment property (3 BR, 2 BA, SFH) in GA that was rented out in 2014 by our first contracted property manager. In 2015, I received a letter and an email on the same date that the management company had so...