Timothy Metra
New investor with $10,000... What would you do if you were me?
BP, what's up? The title is pretty straightforward to my situation. I have $10,000. How can I turn this into $1M overnight? Thanks!Okay, I'm only joking. If you're still reading, I'm assuming you're patient enough to ...
Kevin Estey
CALLING ALL NEW ZEALAND BASED INVESTORS!
Let's get everyone who is a New Zealand based Real Estate / Property Investor to reply here, so we can try and form a group to share ideas both for investing locally and abroad. I know there are many of you out there...
Robert Ellis
Building spec homes as an investor for a profit
Is anyone building in markets as an investor with builders where you are an out of state investor and building in a market not local and hiring a general contractor to build at which point you sell spec? We are pitchi...
Todd Whiddon
Diary of a POP TOP Second Story Addition Project
Intro…Keeping with the spirit of @J Scott 's “Diary of a New Construction Project” where we jumped into a HUGE project that we never really had done before, “Tear a house down and build a new one back”. This adventu...
Patrick Jackson
Problems with Contractors
I am currently researching the different issues that investors have with contractors so I can come up with a solution to help resolve the issues. Can you please take a second and just give me a line or two on issues y...
Brad Hasseler
Where do most property managers fail?
I have been working in the automotive industry as mechanic for the last 12 years. I like what I do and I'm good at it, but it's time to get out. SO long story short I'm getting my real estate license. I'm going to b...
Brian Burke
Offer Accepted: Almost $2 million under appraisal, but can we fu
Offer Accepted: Almost $2 million under appraisal, but can we fund it?I fund most of my deals through some type of pooled investment, whether I raise money on a deal-by-deal basis or through a blind pool fund. It ca...
William C.
Who is responsible for permits/codes
Architects, builders, GCs, investors, and anyone else who knows anything about applying for permits on a late scale renovation I need your help.
OK so the title is a bit misleading since I am well aware, at least I t...
Leland S.
Can you design a home with 35ft floor trusses?
My architect and I designed a 3 story townhome. Initially, he had a standard walled-in staircase on the second level but I found a metal guy who provided this unique open staircase concept with just a metal rail bar w...
Stephen Shelton
Neighbor hates a tree
I have a SFR where an older couple just bought the neighboring house. They've improved the look of the landscaping, but they approached my tenant about the leaves that drop from one of my trees.
It's a deciduous tree...