I recently went through a house in Omaha that had probably one of the top 5 most disgusting bathrooms I can recall personally witnessing (and that is saying something).  From all indications, it looks like the house w...

I am renovating a 4plex, for rental units. Tearing out carpet, and based on the great threads here, was planning to porcelain. My floor guy said the extra labor cost to lay down porcelain isn't worth it, and recommend...

Hello fellow BPers!   If I may, let me give you the "lay of the land" before posing my question.My wife and I currently are looking to sell our primary residence, a small SF 2/1 in the spring.  We also own another SF ...

From what I can gather an equity waterfall applies after the property is sold? LP gets their initial investment and preferred return. Then the GP gets a catch up of say 20%. Then the LP-GP split is 80/20. What if I do...

My goal is to purchase my first real estate investment property within 1 year.I have a well-paying job, good credit, no consumer debt (just my car, which I'm working to pay off), and I am working on a 20% downpayment ...

Hello, I am just buying my first rental property and it needs new flooring in the bedrooms and kitchen. The rest of the home has brand new oak hardwood and the kitchen has oak cabinets. Both are a lighter oak color. I...

Hello all,My name is Matt Roberts and I'm originally from the Bay Area in a small town called La Honda that no one has ever heard of. I'm just getting started with REI, and I'm very excited to have found this communit...

Hi everyone!Newbie investor here. I've been educating myself for the past few months about real estate investing through books, podcasts and bp.com of course. I've always loved real estate but like in Brandon's book m...

Here’s the situation. House was vacant for 2 months without the air conditioner or heater from mid February through mid April. That was a mistake. Should have had the ac and heater running but didn’t expect it to be v...

I only like to do VERY GOOD to GREAT deals, and it's getting more and more difficult to find them in my hot market in the San Francisco Bay Area. I was chatting with another investor about how many deals you have to p...