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A lot of people ask us why we build new instead of renovating and I just wanted to share a few reasons with you guys to get your thoughts! 1. We have complete control over the budget from day 12. Finished value is alw...
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Hey everyone,My name is Raphael Collazo and I'm a new real estate investor living in the Louisville area. I made my first investment on November 2018 (house hacking a 4-plex) and I'm excited about doing more deals in ...
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TL:DR - picked up my second 4-family. Purchase price $120k, with maybe $40k in repairs/capex the first year. Looking to get rents to $600/mo and cashflow over $400/mo.
Hey all. This post won't be as organized as my f...
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TLDR: NEW to REI, consuming a lot of information and don't want to waste my time. How would you proceed?Hey folks, I'm Chase and I'm so new on here I don't have a profile pic (working on it).Real estate investing is a...
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How much are you paying your virtual assistant? What are the type of tasks you are asking them to do? Where are they from.We are buy and hold investors - so any suggestion of how to leverage a VA would be greatly appr...
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Anyone using the free version (or any version) of insightly? I'm looking for some better tools to help me manage the very narrowly targeted direct mail and cold-calling I do, and I'm trying to figure out if I should j...
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One year ago I lost the farm... 80k (my life savings to date)... and 2 years of progress. I was devastated. A few months back, I hired a wealthy friend of mine who happens to be a financial coach to advise me. We had...
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Hello all. I am looking for property managers in Amarillo, TX and possibly Greenville, SC. Can anybody help me out?
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Hey all,
I'm currently a full time student at UCSB and enrolled in Real Estate classes. I am hoping to start a Real Estate Investing Education club when I return to school this coming fall, and could use some advice...
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The Charlotte area population is expected to soar by 50% by 2050. That growth is uneven
Chase JordanFri, January 24, 2025
The ever-growing Charlotte region is home to 3 million people, but the population is proj...