Dawn Batts
Investing starting with a lump of around $500k
Share your thoughts on buying rental income properties starting with about half a million dollars. The "why" is the important part of this question. If you are buying properties in the $100k range, do you buy the...
Nathan Faucett
How to Grow My Money While Build Up for the Next Deal
My wife and I started learning about real estate in January of 2019.
In June of 2019 we purchased our first primary residence and converted the basement into an 2 bed/1 bath apartment which we started renting out in ...
Matt H
doing your first deal....
Just a word of advice to beginners who have not yet bought any property....
One major problem that a lot of new people run into is just getting started. The biggest problem I believe is that people end up thinking to...
Bryan Hancock
Real Estate = "Get Rich Slow" Business
I was reading a book from a popular commercial real estate investor this evening and he made the bold claim that real estate is a "get rich slow" business. One of the most successful investors I know in Austin uses t...
Patrick Wheeler
Be Patient or Figure Out a Creative Strategy?
Hey Everyone,I'm attempting to start investing, but am possibly hitting an early roadblock. Recently I went through the process of trying to get pre-approved. Ultimately I was told that I would need to have a co-signe...
Mary Schr
Rental property not meeting 1% rule
Hi,Three years ago I bought a two family home in an up and coming part of queens, ny. The original plan was to live in the two bedroom unit and rent out the one bedroom but circumstances prevailed and I had to rent o...
Dave Meyer
Door count is a terrible metric. Please stop using it.
Door count is the worst (commonly discussed) metric in the real estate investing community. Why does everyone use it? Can we all decide to collectively kill it? Or are there some of you out there that stand by door co...
Edward Kuk
High-income couple ... BRRR or not?
Nice to meet everyone. I'm very new to real estate investing (i.e., 2 weeks) but pretty thankful that I found this site and appreciate all the information this community has provided. Quick background: My wife and I a...
Michael Corso
2020 will be a challenging year for the housing market.
2020 will be a challenging year for the housing market.
On the one side, there's a strong US economy that has driven the unemployment rate to record low levels, boosting disposable income, which makes a bullish case...
Carlos Cuervo
How can a young investor get to his first passive income?
How can a young investor with low income make an investment that can become into a passive income?