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Hello BP family! Hello how are you all doing? I hope all is going well with everyone. I'm writing to get advice about investing. I need to purchase a car (Nothing new a nice used one). I have 10k saved up. My questio...
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So I bought a 3 family in NJ and have gut renovated all apartments and have had great luck thus far but have run into my real first issue. Here is the situationI gutted one of the units (3 bedroom 1 bath) with a new k...
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I sometimes have to give tenants, what I call an "attitude adjustment".Below is an email that I sent to a tenant. In her email, she talked about invoicing me for when she had to talk to the utility company. I sent t...
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Hi everybody,I'm brand new on the site and to real estate. I was hoping to tap into some of the knowledge that some of the other members on the site may have about the Philadelphia area. A little about myself; I've...
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I'm reading How to Make Big Money in Small Apartments by Lance Edwards. Informative or not, it has definitely got the "written by a real estate guru" vibe. Please level with me, folks. Who realistically gets 10-30 uni...
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A little background..... I live in Brooklyn with my wife and 2 kids. We love real estate but find ourselves priced out of our local market. We own two out of state SFRs that we bought turnkey and they are performing w...
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I have a pretty good job that I've been working at for many years. We have good credit and some money saved. I've listened to many of the podcasts on BP, ready many posts here and have learned a lot.
What I...
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Hello everyone,
I have set myself a goal to purchase a single family home or 4 plex by August 2015. I have a good amount of money saved up & was wondering if it's a bad idea to use your own money? Also when purch...
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What were the first 5 steps you took to get started on your real estate investing venture?
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Thanks mostly to the information and motivation stemming from this forum, I have purchased a rental house in Central Florida and am under contract for two additional homes. I will look to be adding more homes in Flor...