Pete Woelfel
Looking for an inspector
Hi Milwaukee BP friends,I have a 4 unit property under contract. One of the units will require quite a bit of rehab. We have an inspection contingency and I'm hoping to hire an inspector with experience in multi-fam...
Ryan Mortimer
DMV Contractor Recommendations
Hi All,Relatively new to BP and enjoying all the content and discussions. I have my first flip in Montgomery County, Md and it's causing some unforseen headaches. I primarily working in NOVA so most all my contractors...
George Foster
Framing Contractors
I wanted to find out if any of my fellow BPers have a framing contractor referral? Looking only for trades that put their hands on the tools. Self-performing contractors.
Steven Straughn
First home purchase - San Diego. Thoughts?
Hello All,
My wife and I are in escrow on our first home. We plan to live in and remodel over the next two years and sell in 2015 (or rent it, depending on the market). I'm not sure if it's standard practice to inclu...
Natalya Murphy
Tile floor install: DIY or hire a contractor?
We have about 1,000 square feet of carpeted floor that we'd like to convert to tile. I'm wondering if it's worth the crazy labor cost to pay someone to do the work, or if it's a project I could do myself. From wha...
Cheng Bin Zhang
The Slow House Hack: Real Estate Investing in Greater Boston
2020 will forever be marked as a “watershed” moment for many millennials. From the rise in e-commerce to work from home, the pandemic accelerated our lives by decades. Millennials, which constitute the largest segmen...
Ankur Tiwari
Doctor and Lawyer looking to become new real estate investors
Hi BP,
My wife and I are looking to start investing in real estate. She is a corporate lawyer and I am a physician and we realize that we want to be in charge of our own income stream and not at the whim of those ab...
Scooter Williams
Swing and a miss
Investment Info:
Small multi-family (2-4 units) buy & hold investment.
Purchase price: $62,500
Sale price: $51,000
This is one of the few real estate deals I lost money on in 12 years. I was SO p...
Jimmy NA
Doing the work Yourself
Should a landlord do repairs and maintenance himself (or herself)? I have read opinions, and spoken to landlords whom feel strongly either way. Some say, "you must do repairs yourself and save money". The opponents s...
Clyde Wellman
Being own contractor vs hiring a contractor
Hey everyone!I currently have my general contractors license and looking for a property. I have always had the question of whether to do the work on my own or to hire it out. I know it will take longer to finish the p...