Samantha J Foy
Staging a property
Hi, I have done a few flip houses and I have staged them minimally with a few items like towels, baskets, flowers inside etc. I think I would like to move into staging the living rooms and the primary bedroom. Do you...
Jacob Pereira
Property management value
Beyond the obvious minimums (place tenants, field calls, collect rent) what other value-adds does your property management company offer (accounting, maintenance logs, legal documents/representation, etc.)? What would...
Joshua Hughes
House Hacking Nightmare
Goodmorning BP family- I have added an additional single family house to my portfolio so I am now house hacking two homes. Both of them are by the bedroom and this new one I just completed a master bedroom build added...
Andrew S.
Dryvit over Cinderblock? Good idea? Expensive?
I'm considering a property that is built with painted cinderblock. It was built in the 50-ies and there is little insulation (I doubt the blocks are filled with foam, etc). Some of the interior is drywalled but...
Chris Walters
Potential Gross Income
Hi BP,
I just found a property where the the Cash on cash ROI should be more or less 10% according to the numbers found on the listing. That being said, I am skeptical about the income stated, as most of the listings...
Yaya Y.
CoC and Cap Rate Correlation
Hi everyone,I was looking at an investment property that returned a 5% cap rate after renovations. The cash on cash return is basically 1%Can everyone give their two cents to what their cap rate is on your properties ...
Sam Epperson
8.6 Cap, B class, 18 units, $823k
Forgive me if this isn't the usual format, I haven't even looked at other posts. Am I close on these numbers?link here: http://www.loopnet.com/Listing/6768-S-East-St-Indi...List: 823,000Cap: 8.6%Units: 18NOI: 70,778(e...
Frank Barletta
Houston: F the Weather but invest anyways.
A friend recently asked me to compare two Houston zip codes, 77008 and 77063, from an investment perspective.
Now, I'm a big fan of Texas but the first thing I said to him was the weather is HORRENDOUS. Anything simi...
N/A N/A
Hard-equity lending, consider these creative techniques
Hard Money funding is often used to finance projects that are considered by most to be unconventional!
Most call it Creative Real Estate Investing!
The reality of it all is that Creative Real Estate Investing techni...
Vic Reddy
Negotiating Lender Debt due to City demolition
HiWe need some advice on this strange situation. A friend owns a good cash flowing low income Multi family property in TX. This MFH property is 50+ years old and the City wants to enforce recent building codes on thi...