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My wife and I embarked on a new experiment in 2015, radical cost cutting in our personal expenses in order to invest more quickly in cash flowing rental properties. When I say "new", I simply mean new to us as this s...
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Investment Info:
Single-family residence buy & hold investment.
Purchase price: $189,000
Cash invested: $159,000
2/1 SFH all block new everything. lots of money and everything new.
Wh...
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Well I'm making my first offer on a property that has a shared driveway . Any advice, suggestions, or comments?
Looks too long to be brick so is it concrete? The entire exterior is made of this as well as some interior walls that are probably load-bearing. Even some of the rooms that share an exterior wall don't have drywall ...
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We've got a home that has what I think they call a cold storage room? Basically a room built under the porch. It leaks. The porch is cracked. We had a contractor submit an estimate to rip it out and brace/rebuild it. ...
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Anyone have any advice on a first rental property in Fort Myers. Looking for an A or B area with concrete/block construction. Priced between 800,000 to 4 million. Can anyone describe some good areas in Fort Myers to a...
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I am trying to crunch numbers on my first deal. A fix and flip using a hard money lender. Its a HUD home for 25K. Its a 1300 square foot 2 story built in 1930. When pulling comps, I am estimating the ARV around...
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How would a beachfront condo compare to a beach house that was a block or two away from the beach do in terms of rental revenue? This would be assuming similar specs (3b/3b) and purchase price. Would appreciation be p...
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I bought and rehabbed a 2-flat in chicago this year and now I'm turning my attention to the basement. It was a legal 3-flat but the last owner had it decoverted to storage a year before the sale. I was told there was ...
I was busy working on the early stages of a rehab minding my own business until I hired two contractors to help me. On their first day, I opened my dumpster and one of them who does REO clean-outs for banks was just f...