James LaPosta
New Member From New York City
Hello All,I have been a big fan of BP since I discovered it last September. I finally took the dive to create an account and to start taking real estate investing seriously. I am currently living in Manhattan with a f...
Shawn Abadie
Ideas for marketing vacant land
I'm looking for some good ideas about how to market a large, family-owned parcel in an already platted subdivision in Arizona. The investment was made long ago, so we can sell at a discount (relative to some other re...
Caitlin Worrell
Appraisal confusion - opinion of market rent
Can someone help me understand how appraisers generate the values during the appraisal process? I am reading our appraisal report and trying to make sense of it.We own a duplex and occupy one of the units. Back in Nov...
Mike McGee
Office building - ugly?
I'm considering buying this 5-unit office building. It's in a stable, mid-sized Midwestern market with a low (5-ish%) office vacancy rate. Currently 3 of the 5 units are rented. One of the others was occupied by the o...
Ivan Roberts
How did you start
Hey guys,
I am wondering how you started to get into the RE business? I mean, what was the first steps you took to get "started"? Did you get advice from a local REI club? Did you contact a real estate agent and ask ...
Benjamin Verrill
Large apartment complexes. How do people get them?
So, full disclosure (if you couldn't tell) I'm new around here. I'm reading everything that I can get my hands on, listening to the BP podcasts and webinars, and all around studying like my life depends on it. I don't...
Rory Boone
What am I missing here. Multi Unit Property
Here's the deal. I have 4 Unit Property I bought back in Dec of 2012 located in lower income area ( not a war zone) in the South Suburbs of Illinois very close to Chicago. Most flippers are not buying properties in th...
Peter Grote
Tacoma Multi-family Apartment investing
I've been investing in SFRsin Tacoma for buy and holds and am looking into moving in multifamily. I'm looking for someone to bounce a few questions off re the Tacoma market in particular. I've seen someone's name come...
Kyle Gillespie
First Multifamily Negotiations, help evaluating a deal
I am in negotiations for my first multifamily deal, it is a 12 unit brick apartment complex built in 1950 in rural Washington state (same town as I have another healthcare business in) current owners have done a good ...
Duncan Banks
Ambitious and educated in Massachusetts
My name is Duncan Banks, I am a 30 year old military veteran with a BA and Master's in architecture. I have been, so far, disappointed with the work and pay that I have been able to command with my education in this ...