Beth D.
To Stage Or Not To Stage...
I've always been of the mindset that staging a house to sell gives people a "visual" on how it looks as a home. However, when we bought our personal residence it was completely empty which I preferred because then I w...
Dominique Guinnane
Interest Rate Buydown vs. Sales Price Reduction
Hello Everyone,I'm a fairly new real estate agent in the Bay Area, CA. My brokerage recently had a quick presentation on how having an interest rate buydown vs. a sales price reduction could be beneficial to both sell...
Ebony M Marshall
Security Deposit Return- PLEASE HELP!!!
I am a tenant living in Chicago. I lived in an owner-occupied building with 2 total units. I moved out March 30, 2024 and just recently received a letter from the landlord (54 days later) with deductions and reasons...
Peter Ryabikin
Do you stage your flips?
Curious to what everyone else is doing? We stage all of our houses. We did close to 30 flips last year and plan on 50 this year. We stage houses as low as 230k to over a million. I know a lot of people don't do it but...
Kam Nak
Furnishing for Airbnb
Hello, I recently bought a property with 2 levels. I have 6B in one unit and 2B in another basement unit. I am thinking of Airbnb'ing the property and wanted to see if anyone has any contacts for me for furnishing the...
Janine Badic
Is there a way to utilize 1031 exchange funds for upgrades?
I am not sure if this is in the realm of possible/ legal... but I am purchasing a property for $400k (sold the last property for $320k) via 1031 exchange. I have $125k sitting with the intermediary. The property I a...
Mary Ainsworth
Furnishing a property out of state/long distance?
Hello! I'm about to close on a 4 unit and I'm trying to furnish two of them as MTR's but I'm out of state. I wanted to ask if anyone's furnished a property remotely before - who helped you set up the furniture? I've c...
Thu Pham
Purchasing an existing Airbnb with future bookings
Hi all! I am going into escrow for my first STR purchase (yay!) that is an existing Airbnb with future bookings into the year already. Ideally, I would prefer to capture their existing bookings after closing, by direc...
Kayla Davis
Single Bedroom - Furnished or Unfurnished?
Hi All,I'm purchasing a SFH where I'll be doing some "House Hacking", namely renting out all the spare bedrooms. I'm trying to find the best strategy for renting my rooms.For any potential renters looking for a single...
Cori Gerken
Marco Luxury Home auction
The idea is you control a luxury home with an option contract. You fill it full of the same style furniture/ assessories and auction everything off......... I just wonder who would give control of a multi-million $$ h...