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Hi All,I am a newbie and Looking for a bootcamp or workshop to learn nuances on Small multifamily investing less than 5 units & not large multi family.If anybody has a reference on a good Mentor would be of great ...
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Hi.I am new and learning all I can from a book, my realtor, and my lender. I've been told I need a good CPA and a handyman. What else do yall suggest? I am hoping to buy a house to move into by March and rent my curre...
Im Tony, I currently work one weekend a month (24 hours total) at a local hospital and want to replace this with a rental property or two, I don't have a ton of cash and im actually willing to cash my 401k in to get s...
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Good morning BP!As part of a recent house-hunt, I started a small excel sheet to help determine the current pp/sqft in various areas that we were interested in. This ended up turning into a project which I have devote...
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Hello, I'm a long time lurker of bigger pockets attempting to think my way into real estate investing. I'm most interested in building a rental portfolio and have 20k currently and am working on adding to that selling...
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How do most of you go about selecting a move-in date for your chosen applicant? Do you tell them they need to move in immediately once you have chosen them as the accepted applicant? Do you wait until the first of the...
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I bought my first investment - Duplex on 4 acres (140k). Each unit 1100 sf 2BR/2BA with washer/dryer in each unit. We just sold our big house and will be moving into one unit and rent the other. We are a few years fro...
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I see a lot of talk about the importance of hiring a property manager (PM) rather than self managing. For 20 years I have managed my own properties so I wanted to offer some thoughts on the advantages of self managing...
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What works -
1. Investing in well built properties that are able to generate positive cash flow with current rental rates
2. Becoming knowledgeable about a sector or sectors or geographical area (s) and limiting yo...
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I am about to sign a full-service PM to handle my short-term vacation rental house. I interviewed several PMs from mom & pop types (managing just a few properties but charging less) to big behemoth national PM com...