Brad McCulloch
Financing
I have recently been talking to a few local lenders about transitioning from small real estate investing (I own 5 small homes in rural areas) to purchasing larger, multi-unit housing. Since I am currently showing a l...
Jonathan Disla
Starting REI Journey - Bergen County, NJ - Lets Connect!
Hi Everyone,
I wanted to introduce myself to the community! My wife and I have decided 2022 will be the year we put our all into real estate investing. Last year we were planning on using an FHA to house hack in Eli...
Leather Nix
Dodd Frank/Owner financing
I see owner-finance deals everywhere. Do people just not know/care about Dodd Frank? Am I missing some great loophole that's allowing people to act as a lender?Disclaimer: I didn't even know Dodd Frank was a thing unt...
Ben Biggs
Newbie from Fort Collins, Co
Good Evening from Japan, I'm currently active duty Navy, stationed in Sasebo, Japan. The reason why I say i'm from Fort Collins is because that's where I'll be heading back to when I leave the Navy in May, 2016. Looki...
Garrett Mayo
My feet are semi wet in california!
Hello BP, long time lurker who finally decided to sign up. I'm from Morgan Hill CA (San Jose) and have been getting my feet wet the past 14 months with real estate investing. All said and done my wife and I have 3 ...
Anthony Martin
Future goals/plans for purchasing and growing
This seems like the appropriate place to me to share some things about what I'm working on and maybe get some insight on how best to get there. Being Active Duty military isn't the easiest job, in fact, according to ...
Nicholas Armstrong
How to Draft a Lease Agreement
Hello Everyone!I was interested in seeing how you fellow landlords go about drafting a Lease Agreement?Do you use a professional such as a RE attorney or did you borrow a draft from someone and edit it to your prefere...
Eliza Greenwood
House Hack Reality Check Please
The Goal: My sister and I have a property tied up with the (possibly harebrained) plan to clean, paint, carpet, create an unpermitted “flag lot” with fencing, and fix a plumbing issue (10k), place tenants ($1,350/mont...
Elizabeth Velez
Pay off debt or invest
We have about $170k in “bad” debt and our DTR is almost 50%. We are about to get $150k in cash from a business sale. Should we pay off debt or invest? I’m thinking pay off enough debt to get us to 30% DTR then invest ...
Elizabeth Sky
Hello from the Finger Lakes of New York state!
I have lived in an older duplex, in the country for over 4 years now. My landlords are coming over to talk about me purchasing the building this evening. The property was assessed at 105K this year. My landlords threw...