Jim Welch
How long should my flip property sit on market before I worry
Dallas Texas MarketPurchase Price: 84kEstimated ARV: 149kRenovation: 30kCurrent Days On Market: 55Original Listing Price: 149.9kCurrent Listing Price: 146kCurrent Net Profit Potential: 10kThis is my first flip and I e...
Franky Davis
Made My First Offer!......And Got Laughed At :( (With Numbers)
Hello all,My name is Franky Davis and I am relatively new to real estate investing and a newish member to BiggerPockets. Let me start with a little about me. I'm currently an orthopedic surgery resident (year 3 of 5) ...
Russell Holmes
Seasoned real estate agents, where would you have dropped this?
As a new Realtor, I had a nice and challenging first offer fall through. I feel I learned a lot, and know some things to look out for, but I'm curious if you pros would have pursued as far as I did or would have clue...
Ahmad H.
Retirement Planning with Real Estate
Hi BP!I've been heavily investing in RE for 2+ years and I often try to extrapolate the future based on my basic experience. The latest of those extrapolations is to calculate how much net rental income is needed to s...
Keith Saunders
Major Banks Forging Ownership Documents
Just saw a story on 60 minutes about several very large banks manufacturing ownership documents. All related to mortgage forclosures in the past several years. It appears they can not come up with the real title of ow...
Kristen Williams
My Owner Building Portfolio, Asks Me for a 3% Discount off PM fee
We have worked hard to build our relationships over time, with owners and investors, and we are even expanding. We have done this by evaluating workload, and setting fair Property Management rates with our owners, on ...
David Ptak
Over leveraged
Hi everyone. I've been reading and listening to podcasts and hear about all these folks that build these huge portfolios within just a few years. What I can't make sense of though is how can one keep accumulating prop...
Paul Jamgotch
Forced (early) Retirement... What to do
Hi All,
I've been lurking here for a while. Finally a post: My company has been bought out and I am facing a lay-off from a narrow field with no competitor to move to in my area. I'd like to stick it out in West Mich...
Garrett Blanchard
Raising rents on long term tenants
In the process of purchasing a 6 unit complex and the rents have not been raised in years. 4 units are 2/1, one is 2/2 and one is 3/1. The rents are as follows...
2/1 - $425(been this price for 15 years), 2/1 - $600...
Phillip Rosin
Pay off debt or invest (age old question)
I have ready many, many opinions on the topic, but never one with my specific scenario, of course. I would love to hear some opinions on what others would do in my shoes. I'm a 36 year old in the Clearwater, FL area. ...