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Hello! I'm happy to be here on the BP forums.I'm just starting to look at investing in real estate. I live in inland southern California, which is more affordable than the coasts, but still more expensive than what I'...
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I have 2 rentals (they are townhouses right next to each other) for 2 years now, I have been doing air BNB out of them and the return is great and I was able to make this my full time job by doing the cleaning on my o...
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Hello,So I get a call this am this guy claiming to be working for the city. He is completely lying pissed I put a few signs up. Telling me the whole deal it is illegal blah blah blah. I am nice but feel like telling h...
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Hello All,
Renovating my first property and I made a rookie mistake, a major one--I found out that my first contractor (who came recommended) is unlicensed in California!!!
I am two weeks into redoing several of th...
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A bit of a rant here ... I've been in these forums for seven years and have followed the Airbnb laws in Colorado the entire time. I've always been able to find my STR clients investments that are legal and whose numbe...
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Hey everyone. I’m curious to hear your thoughts. I’m in talks with a guy selling his investment property. I would be listing it. The property will go for about 55k tops. Obviously Small price equals small commiss...
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What is your definition of Commercial Real Estate? I know many on BP consider Multi Family to be commercial R.E. Others believe that it's any real estate used for "business" purposes, still others consider any propert...
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Hi all,
This is my first post on BP - I looked around for similar questions/answers and couldn't find a good match so I figured I'd go ahead and post; hopefully this is the correct forum for my question. First, a li...
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You know that @Brandon Turner and I talk like high-school girls. Like every day... You could say he is my significant other:)Well - we were talking yesterday. Discussing whether we still have any credibility. He ...
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I'm in a bit of a unique situation in that I'm a California resident and can only invest in properties all-cash for religious reasons.
I'm not able to use leverage/loans, and I know and accept that investing all cash...