Nick Rudolph
What to do with 35k?
I live in southern California, have $35k saved, and zero debt. I am currently renting a room. My current thoughts are to house hack and rent out the rooms in a single family, get a duplex and house hack and rent out t...
Steven Wachtel
Refinance from Investment to Vacation Home loan?
I bought my first STR in Destin, FL in Nov 2022. It's a non-warrantable condo, so I just accepted my horrific rate and I'm hanging on until I can hopefully refinance and see some real cash flow. At the time I bought...
Brad Sparks
First time rental inspection
How do you handle rental inspections? I'm starting to get weekly call about this and that so I want to see for myself what's going on there. How much notice should I give?Can I take pictures of the house? I'm having...
Chris T.
Wholesale and Owner Finance
I am in the start-up period and I want to Wholesale, but I have a lot of experience with Owner Financing. I will be using a Hard Money Lender. Should I just focus on one technique at first or should I TRY to be open...
Bienes Raices
Big problem with HUD house
My offer was accepted on a HUD house, and (as an investor), I made my $500 non-refundable deposit.
I've now been notified that if I want utilities on I have to pay a $130 dewinterization fee and buy a general liabili...
Natalie Kolodij
prop Trend software.... computer recommendations...
hello all,
I recently received a copy of prop trend from a real estate workshop and wanted to find out if people who used this software had any suggestions more pertaining to the computer. Is it easy to utili...
Will Pritchett
Cigarette smoke smell
So we want to make an offer on a house in our target area but it has brown stained walls and popcorn ceiling and a sting odor of smoke. I have heard
Account Closed
Possible to avoid Capital Gains Tax by moving into property?
In regards to the IRS rule(s) that allow single/married individuals to realize a tax free gain on real property sales up to $250k/$500k so long as they live in the property for 2 of the past 5 years, is it possible fo...
Dave Hurt
Any QSR Franchisees?
Just curious if there are any QSR franchisees here on the forum? We are currently franchisees of an FSR concept and have 2 units with 2 more opening this year...but are exploring QSR options to diversify. Would love ...
Cooper Marcus
How to generate maximum tax losses this year?
I need to maximize my tax losses this year - how should I invest in real estate (or something else?) to generate maximum tax losses? (Ideally, for every $1 I invest, I'd get $1 in tax losses this year - I don't care m...