John Lyszczyk
Why is Lumber so Expensive?
I noticed some BiggerPockets members asking about the rising cost in lumber and plywood, and given my background, I figured I wood (haha) weigh in on this subject. I currently work for a lumber company and I primarily...
Jeffrey Hayes
Hard Money Loans Process Overview
Hi, I'm flipping homes now and was just wondering if anyone who has any experience with hard money loans could give me a brief overview of the process as far as whether or not you need to get pre-qualified with a har...
Greg Bly
selling my house and want to invest
My wife and I are about to sell my house and get a good chunk of money over 400,000 any ideas on what I should do to invest in this?
Kevin Zhang
3D Printed Houses - will we see housing price plummeting?
Hi BP CommunityI kept reading the news that 3D printed houses are taking off (first in NYC, now in TX). See below link. How is this going to affect the house price? And what actions should we take now? https://www.goo...
Brandan Qwert
What's a normal cap rate on farmland?
Farm land seemed to have around a 39% rent to price ratio in Wisconsin. I'm pretty sure it's useless half the year. So it seems like around an 18% pre-tax cap rate. Is this correct? Would you get this if you invested ...
Rory Fowler
Rent to Income ratio receiving negative reactions
I have a unit in a duplex posted for rent. The previous owners had some bad experiences with tenants in this duplex but it is in a great neighborhood (I live in this neighborhood. It's positioned in great suburb with ...
Matthew Paul
Tenant wants deposit back the day of move out .
Decent tenant of 4 years moved out , only gave 2 weeks notice . I schedule a move out inspection the day he is leaving . They call for a east coast snow storm so he calls me and tells me he is leaving 2 days early an...
Todd Hensy
Top 10 hottest top ten real estate markets.....bogus?
The saying goes..."where there this is explosive job opportunities, then explosive real estate follows." SOMETIMES THESE LISTS ARE BOGUS. For example, the labor index in 2012 said .."Des Moines, IA had explosive job ...
Eric Moeller
Leasing homes to then sublet through Airbnb? Viable business?
Hey all!I wanted to get this conversation started to see if any investors out there are currently sandwich leasing properties for the main purpose of subletting through Airbnb. I came across a landlord who is looking ...
Artur A.
Getting too many maintenance requests from Tenant
Hello BP friends. Getting too many requests related to plumbing.Do you have any recommendation for that? I was thinking about updating contract to make tenants pay for expenses (plumbing issues)Last month expenses wer...