What are some signs you see of any area that is gentrifying or about to gentrify to any veteran real estate investors or even people who have seen a bad neighborhood turn into well developed in a period of time ?

It seems like it's impossible to find places that rent following the guidelines of the 2% rules.  If a property that's $200,000 should rent for around $4000/mo to cash flew that seems quite extreme. Or is it just that...

I am still fairly new to the retail business.  I have built and sold a 10,000 sq. ft. building in the past.  I currently have 8700 sq ft divided into 4 stores.  I bought this as a value add that was half empty and onl...

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So I'm closing on my 3rd property situated in Chicago in the next couple of weeks. This property is an REO but will be transferred to me as an occupied property. I've drove by the property and it see...

Hello!  My name is Jennifer Clancy and this is my newbie story.  My husband and I became accidental landlords in August 2013, we had the opportunity to live in Australia and we took it.  We did not want to pay a mortg...

Six months went by and I still didn't buy my first rehab project.   I'm looking to purchase in the Orlando area in Florida.  There are homes for 30-60K I see online and the resale could be 85K on the lower end in some...

Hi -- Let me start with the back ground before I get to my question. I just recently purchased an investment property. Shortly after taking possession of the building, I increased the rents. I gave them the requir...

Hi everyone,I've been building a 4-unit property in FL and I had a specialty drywall contractor I had to hire for a fire-rated ceiling. They had to do some work outside the scope of an initial contracted amount of $19...

Hello everyone at BP! First time poster with big dreams of real estate investing. BACKGROUND:Ive been doing research for the past 6 months and finally starting to put together a strategy to go after my niche...but fir...

Good morning,I am a newly licensed Massachusetts Realtor and I've done some single family flips years ago.  I am currently under contract to purchase my first multi-family buy & hold property in Western Massachuse...