Patrick Zepeda
Estimating rehab costs before or after inspections?
Hi all! I am having a hard time understanding the timing of the estimation of rehab costs. I thought you first estimated on a PSF basis how much the rehab would cost to come to a purchase price (PP+Rehab=70% of ARV), ...
Zachary Miller
Tips for buying a house that has been on the market a LONG time
Hey all, I am looking to purchase my first house and begin house hacking in the near future. One important thing to note is, due to my living in this house, I am not looking for the best investment property. Rather, I...
George Gipson III
Brrrr Strategy Confused at Refinance part
Ok I am purchasing a dulpex for $60,000 it was listed for $75000 and rents for $600 each side. So do I need private lender or a conventional lender like credit union for my initial purchase of $60,000. With a regular ...
Jonathan Flores
Cash out refi or HELOC to use for an investment property?
What strategy do you prefer to use to tap into your homes equity to use towards a purchase on an investment property? And why?
J. Martin
Remind tenants to notify about water intrusion for winter?
One of my tenants recently told me that a dark spot appeared to be growing each day during the rain, until they woke up with water leaking onto their bed..
As I was contemplating how many days it had been get...
Renel St. Fleur
REOs thats been on the market for over a year!
I was curious about this. If an REO property has been on the market for over a year, then I am going to assume that the banks are very motivated to get rid of this property.
My question is, would they still want and...
Karen M.
Shoot, how do I evaluate a deal? Use the calculator?
Hi BPers!I found a very interesting property while I was goofing off on a realtor website / Zillow on Friday. And it looks on the surface to have some great potential, so I would like to investigate this property for...
Chris Schady
Thoughts on how to structure deal with potential investors
Hi all-I was hoping to get the Community's take on the following scenario...I am looking to acquire my 5-6th units via a duplex. This would be a solid property in a good area consistent with my portfolio to date. ...
Randy Smith
Conducting Due Diligence on an Investment Opportunity
You’ve learned a lot since you started the journey of investing in your first passive real estate deal: you’ve weighed all the differences between asset classes, zeroed in on your ideal geographic market, and put on ...
Cassandra Brown
Timing of identifying and closing on properties when doing a 1031 exchange
I'm new to 1031 exchanges and wonder if it is wise to have identified and made offers on properties even before the closing on the property being sold (contingent on the sale) so that the closing can be quickly and I ...