If you are about to purchase an investment property as a long term buy and hold and the current rents are below market, what would you do? Would you ask the current owner to bring the rents up to market value before c...

Sigh. I just renovated a duplex and have been working with a lender for a cash out refi. Because there were no comps, the appraiser used the Sales Comparison approach and valued it at $95K. I had conservatively estim...

Hello BP - I have an opportunity where I can build 3 to 4 two stories duplexes in Austin land area. And may be 4 to 5 more in future (1 to 2 years). However, I need to find out couple of things; 1) Loan==> process ...

Good afternoon! It's been a couple weeks since I've posted. My rental property is now cleaned up and I've had 2 showings with another set for tomorrow. Today, however, I received a call from someone in Texas that soun...

So...I'm VERY new to asking or convincing someone to help me out financially with my dreams. My passion for a long time has been to flip houses and have rentals as my primary source of income. After trying for many ye...

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I am about to write some new articles on how to raise private funds for real estate investing because in the new post-bubble world normal mortgage and hard money lending is drying up and m...

Hi all,Looking for some feedback on our current house-hacking numbers and any recommendations on how to proceed once we move out.We bought our first property in November 2021 (duplex 1/1 upstairs and 2/1 downstairs, C...

I am reading topics in this forum and everyone agrees that there was too much of an price appreciation in Austin market in the last 10 years or so. Do you think it is too late to get in?I was particularly interested i...

Are multifamilies remaining vacant in this fragile environment?I found a few multifamilies for sale that have been vacant for 6 months and a year. Has anyone had trouble filling their rental units longer than 3-4 mont...

Hello everyone this is a question that has perplexed me while looking for hard money lenders. there are so many in the market to day making it hard to choose from.