Antonio Bodley
Do retail home buyers care about....?
Do retail home buyers care as much about home value as investors do? Investors buy to make a profit, so I can see why home values are very important to them. Retail home buyers are buying to live in the homes not to m...
Jason Lee
What did you guys do for a living when starting out?
Greetings BP!
I'm new to the real estate community and i'm looking to getting into real estate investing. From what i have concluded, real estate investing takes quite a long period of time before you start t...
Bret Weigel
Attic Insulation on Rental - Install or not?
Hi all, I had some tenants move in last month to a 3/2 SFR (I just closed on the property a month prior) and I really like them a lot. Good people. Anyways, the first day in, we realized the hot water heater needed re...
Travis Boyd
How effective can MTR be with small multifamily properties?
Hi BP community! I currently House Hack in Everett, WA (near Seattle) and utilize FurnishedFinder for our basement ADU with great success. I have built up enough equity and savings and will start adding multiple rent...
Bobby Sharma
WORST cities for permits, code enforcements, city inspectors
I have had one of the worst experiences with rehabbing a home in Glendale Heights, IL (Suburb of Chicago) with the city inspectors. Some of the most picky, arrogant, expensive, nastiest, non-cooperative inspectors tha...
N B.
Another state?
Hi,
I was wondering (this is a question for those who have already established their real estate business):
How far out of state would you go?
Of course, knowing that the profit and everything (hotel, rental car, etc...
Joey Budka
Decreasing Incentive to Attend Universities
I have been noticing a trend. And the trend goes like this: the return on investment for those attending 4-year universities is decreasing substantially. For the amount you pay to attend college, it is in many cases n...
Muinda Gueston
FSBO Not getting any prospects
I put my home on the market 15 days ago, hired a real estate attorney, and recently paid 500 for MLS. Been listed on MLS for 5 days and I haven’t received any calls from agents to have a buyer tour. What am I missing?
Aaron McGinnis
Flip blog - The heart attack house
With apologies to J Scott - typically, my team and I refer to our houses by the street number. In this case, we have two houses side-by-side, and referring to them by the street number is confusing everyone... so we'r...
Ken Latchers
Landlords - What are all your practical Money savers?
I thought it would be nice to have a collecting point for day to day money/time savers for rentals. Some things I do or have seen on the forum so far:
Remove storm doors.
Advertise rentals on craigslist
Remove or lo...