Miki M.
VRBO's dead. AirBNB's not great. How to market a Vacation Rental?
I have been working on setting up a modest vacation rental in the Portland metro area. In the past, friends of mine were raving about VRBO, telling me it really does work- and they had a reasonable fee structure. But ...
Matt Wahidi
Newbie to REI Needing Help...
Hi All,I’ve been in the waterpoofing business for over 12 years and have been reading up a lot lately about REI. I live in Bay Area (Northern California) and planning on starting my real estate investment portfolio. C...
Ernesto Hernandez
Notes from today’s David Green Long Distance REI Webinar
Not edited, expect from typos. Enjoy. David GreeneHard to save 30 to 40k each house so he started to BRRRRInstead of 2-3 houses a year, he was doing about 10. He thinks BRRR plus out of state works wonders. Learn whil...
Brian Garrett
Question about the 70% rule
So I know the "standard" way to calculate the 70% rule of thumb is to take the ARV x 0.70% and then subtract the rehab costs to come up with your MAO.My question is why wouldn't you take the ARV and subtract the rehab...
Mike R.
Palm Springs
I have had a vacation rental in Big Bear Lake for 2 years now which has done very well (over 200 nights a year- grossing over $50k a year) on less than 200k investment. I'm also managing 3 other properties in Big Bea...
Tom Stern
I own rental properties & want to increase cash flow - Does my plan makes sense?
I own four rental properties in FL, managed remotely by a management company. All of them were bought in cash. Total worth is around $850k - $900k. My original goal was to generate enough cash flow so I can buy a hous...
Steven S.
I made LA/Ventura & SF/Bay Area Underwriting tools you can use
Hey, thanks for the time, this is my first post! I'm a UCSD Real Estate Development 2020 grad with a background in coding that got into flipping SFRs in the LA/Ventura area. When we get them at a low enough price, we ...
Brie Schmidt
WWYD: 5 year commercial at 5% or a 30 year fixed at 7.25%?
I am not a economic expert or do I really follow market trends, so I would like advice from people smarter than me on this topic like @Ben Leybovich and @seanWe have pretty standard commercial financing on 1/2 our por...
Rick Turman
Huge Walk-through Turnouts - ZERO OFFERS!
Morning BP Family!We are at day 29, which would be 3 days past the drop from 219,9 to 209,9. Our agent should be contacting his list of guests that walked and other interested clients to obtain feedback from their wa...
JOHN DALEY
Investing in Small Towns
What do you look for in a small town a couple of hours away from a metropolitan area and are trying to buy and hold? Is there a certain unemployment rate you look for? Specific industries? A certain percentage of p...