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I am looking to buy a house soon. I am a first time home buyer but I wanted to make some money with my first house. So these are my ideas which started from bigger pockets podcast:1. Buy a duplex live on one side rent...
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One of my best tenants, a tile setter who works with builders finishing interiors of new builds, has run into a lot of bad luck. He had several surgeries resulting from a previous condition and could not work for week...
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Two years ago I brought property management in house in my business. I made this decision after I realized that property managers don't work for me. Instead, they work for themselves. Sometimes our interests interse...
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Hi Everyone: I was thinking to open up a space for an "anything goes" thread, where the topic is real estate development and development deal making. It could be anything: questions, war stories, best deal, worst deal...
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Hi,I'm hoping to get some advice. We renovated a house in St. Petersburg, FL and it's sitting on the market for over 80 days with no offers yet. It's in a fantastic neighborhood but the layout is choppy. (for example,...
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Hello everyone,I have been saving up some money and currently have about 150k that I would like to invest in a few turnkey properties, and was wondering what areas do members suggest. I was told Flint, MI with a good ...
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Today, we were in the neighborhood and stopped by our home. We discovered multi people adults and children have moved in without consent/ notice/ in violation of tenants section 8 agreement. Also, discovered a medium ...
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New to investing but interested in apartments. Has anyone heard of Lance Edwards and would they recommend his small apartment course?
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I am getting a ton of calls about performing loss mitigation work for home owners... To all of you doing this work who pays your fee??? Banks ot Debtor??
What are the fees?? $100s or $1000s.... I am not an agent and...
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When I'm using it to figure my monthly payment and therefore the max I should pay for a property, am I to go by the monthly payment amount for a 15 year or a thirty year mortgage?