Thuy Pham-Satrappe
Pay $5000 to change asbestos siding or $400/yr more for insurance
Deciding whether to invest an additional $5000 toward covering asbestos siding to decrease my insurance cost by about $400/ year. Assuming rates stay the same (or increase equally each year) it would take about 12 ye...
Rich Weese
walkthrough of 154 units
Board seems to have slowed down for the nite. I think I'll shut down. I have probably a 3-4 hour final walkthrough of a 154 unit buillding that I close on friday. You don't realize how exhausting that can be, unless ...
Frank Hotard
First Home Issues and Strategy
Good Morning BP,I bought my first house last year in Suffolk, Virginia just to get started in the real estate game. It is a remodeled 2/br 1.5 bath, 832 sq. ft.. My intent was to move within a year and rent it out, bu...
Ashish Medewar
Should I replace tiled & Formica countertops before renting out?
I am moving out of my primary home(in San Diego) that I plan to rent out. It currently has tiled countertop in kitchen & Formica-like countertops in 3 bathrooms. Does upgrading them to quartz fetch more rent?
Giovanni Di Puglia
Subject to deal concerns
BP members,Here is the situation: A friend of mine who is in the military has a property in Killeen TX as the result of her divorce. She wants to dispose of the property and I told her that I may take it off her hands...
Felix Wisniewski
Guesstimate the repairs on a 1,100 sqft house!
Can anyone guesstimate the repairs on a full gut single family 1,100 square foot house?
James Kojo
Trampled on the path of progress?
I'm looking at a small MFR deal: 14 units, all 1/1. C+ property in a C+ area. However, there is a development (not re-development) plan for the immediate neighborhood that it lies in, in which they are proposing zon...
Calvin Chan
First single family home
Investment Info:
Single-family residence buy & hold investment in San Luis Obispo.
Purchase price: $596,000
Cash invested: $150,000
originally purchased to be my first home, started remodel (self...
Steve Chenoweth
Vacation/business trip as a business writeoff
Let's say I want to take a vacation to San Diego (or wherever), but I also intend on looking for cashflow properties and meeting with agents, mortgage brokers, property managers and other RE professionals.
How much o...
Michael G
Do I have enough money to start?
Hello all. I have money in mutual funds which have been doing fine, but if the market goes down again so does my money. I always thought buying a rental in San Diego (where I live) was out of reach and then someone to...