This is my first post on the forums, being a very newbie to REI. My question relates to the purchase of our first home, not for investment. We have begun working with a realtor, but may have found a for sale by owner ...
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hello to all my name is mike I am currently looking at buying my second property in the area of Detroit my option that I am considering is buying with money from my 401k a turnkey property that already has a tenant in...
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Hi BP,Last week, one of our best tenants (a jewelry store) called and asked if we have a bigger space they could move to. They kind of mentioned about this in the past but nothing materialized (because we offered the...
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Hi
I am considering to invest/build large portfolio of SHF and thinking about the Pittsburgh area due to the Hi return and other strong economic factors.
I recently read contradictory views on the feasibility of inv...
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Hey guys, I'm not really sure where to post this so I just figured Off topic would be the best place.
I talked with Tony at length a few times during the conference over the weekend, and what he is doing seems like a...
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Specifically in Chicago, any advice on which types of rehab elements an investor in multi-family properties should focus on or give more weight to when deciding how to rehab a multi-family property? For example, in s...
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Purchased a 1 bedroom condo for $180,000 in late 2008. Current CMA value is $130,000. Reserves: Reserve fund was $16,000 in 2008, but NO reserves remaining. There have been no reserve studies.Financials: The condo c...
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What's a reasonable cash-on-cash Short Term Rental return with 7.5% rates nowadays? Feels like 12-15% is solid, while we expect to refinance in the years ahead at a point or two lower. Any strong opinions?
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I just put in an offer on a house that I plan to live in and flip over 2 years. However, the house was in the middle of a "rehab" when the owner lost his job...and so parts of the house are torn apart. If I win on thi...
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Hi BP Family,This is our first post on the BP forum and we figure this is the best time to go for it.My wife and I launched our first Airbnb in our Northglenn house May 1st. It's a separate entrance basement suite wit...