High lumber prices are driving up the price of new build homes.Lumber futures hit $1,260 per thousand board feet on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. If that sounds like a lot, well, it is—an all-time high.
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I am researching various HML's and learning that most will only pay on the repairs after they have been completed. This makes sense for any work that is being done by a contractor, but what if you are planning to ...

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I'm closing on a property tomorrow and I'll be inheriting a Section 8 tenant. I always like to think about possible "What If" scenarios and it's got me thinking. I ponder, how would it af...

To make a long story short, last year (fall 2018) we had hired a contractor to build a garage, and materials that were paid for and "ordered" never showed up. This was my first serious bad experience with a contractor...

I've always wondered if using a credit card was a viable option to pay for advertising expenses. Some new agents, like myself, don't exactly have a particularly large amount of capital to start with so it would make s...

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Well, This is my 10,000th post on BiggerPockets! Guess I'm officially over the hill!

Joshua Dorkin, thanks for the opportunity to participate on BP and attempt to help other investors from my experience. My experienc...

Hey, I don't know if this is an appropriate forum for my question, but I'll give it a go:

A couple years ago I bought into a timeshare. (Yes, now I know that that's a scary sentence, but I didn't know it at the time....

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I own a Mobile Home in which I was offering a Lease Purchase to the tenant. She was on a 10 year Lease Purchase plan.  I actually just purchased it in Dec 18’ and we signed a new contract for the remainder of th...

Some investors will use the BRRRR strategy where I’m from. Everywhere I read they mention things like appraisals coming in low, people not refinancing for what they hoped for, unexpected construction costs, it taking ...