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Hey all, I am a new investor looking to house hack a property in the Oakland/San Leandro. I have reached out to a couple real estate agents so far but if you know an agent/lender that is familiar with house hacking th...
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For those that do their own tenant screening, how do you evaluate a credit report properly? Do you just go by the FICO score or do you also factor in negative tradelines?
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Hello everyone.
I am looking to start investing in real estate and looking for funding. I have owned my own construction company and have renovated many homes for other investors. That being said I have the rehab sid...
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Hi, I am working on my first flip and have started bringing in GCs for estimates. Since I know a lot of individual contractors, would you recommend speaking with electricians, plumbers etc to cut out the middle man an...
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Are there any real estate agents out there performing lead generation by building list and skip tracing for contact info? Any recommendations or best processes? What skip tracing tool would you recommend? I would imag...
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I would like some thoughts/assistance on what to do with a scenario that I am currently facing. My father has a house located in Ft Lauderdale, about 10 minutes from airport and close to Las Olas and Hard Rock hotel. ...
Coming here to get additional thoughts and advice and not basing my decision solely on this thread.Opportunity: One of my very close and trusted friends has theopportunity through his family to build brand new houses ...
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I just bought a duplex rental property in Albany, NY. It is an older house - early 1900's. The previous owners had a PM company managing the house, but nothing was ever updated and any repairs were just a band-aid. ...
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Why would a licensed general contractor ask a home owner to pull their own permits?I'm curious why they are pushing this burden on the home owner, and if I pull my own permits what are my responsibilities and liabilit...
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The Arithmetic shows it.
Any thoughts?
What's interesting to me is that's with today's uncertainty, market volatility, wealth inequality as well as multiple national revolutions