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I just finished reading Buy and Rent Forclosures byJoseph Neilson.
Mr Neilson advocates stripping houses of central air, garbage disposals and many other amenities in order to eliminate maintenance costs.
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The buzz around the country right now is the shifting economy and that is no different in the real estate sector. With the Fed raising the overnight interest rates and implementing Quantitative Tightening (QT) to comb...
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Has anyone seen this report from the Guinn Center? Meet Kevin also did some discussion on this topic. I feel like most landlords here on BP got above 80% rents during this crisis, but I'm sure there are many mom and p...
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I am fairly new at landlording. I've been at it maybe 2 years and have had mostly positive experiences. I have a few section 8 rentals. An older woman just moved in a SFH and complains of being constantly cold. Sh...
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Working through information overload, cold feet & finding time syndrome here. An important question me and my wife have been wondering....So once YOU started buying homes to hold and rent & houses to flip, ho...
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Hi All,As an agent I'm working with a client that had an interesting idea about an ADU. Of course I'm not at liberty to consult him on whether it would work well or not, but it got me curious. There is a company out o...
If you are like me... You do not have a high paying job. You earn just enough, barely or not even close to "making ends meet." You spend 1/3 of your life or more wasting at a job you dislike for pay that struggles t...
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Hey guys, I was wondering if any of you had experienced something similar to what we're experiencing over here.
We painted over a smelly basement floor with regular, white Kilz. The following day, I went over to see...
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I currently own several MF homes that were purchased between 5 and 12 years ago. Low mortgage rates, low entry price and very high cap rates. It has been harder and harder to find scenarios like that in this economi...
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Those that are furnishing STRs, where do you get your furniture? ie mattress/frame, dresser, nightstand, etc... I'm considering IKEA and will have to wait until they open back up.Also on the subject, what about sheets...