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Investment Info:
Single-family residence buy & hold investment.
Purchase price: $580,000
Cash invested: $120,000
Smallest home in the best part of town. My business partners and I purchased this...
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According to Redfin, In the West, the median asking rent dropped 1.1% year-over-year to $2,469 in August. In the South, the median asking rent fell 0.3% to $1,673. However, the median asking rent rose 4.6% over the sa...
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hello everyone i am new to the business investing in Philadelphia, PA and the surrounding suburbs. I am currently under contract with my first rental property due to settle within a week or so. The numbers look good (...
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Had my roofer come do an estimate for a leaky deck and scupper over master bedroom. While showing him where the leak was in bedroom he pulled out his new infrared camera and showed me how it works. WOW!! This tool poi...
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Hey BP!1. Here are the numbers:ACQUISITION (for purchase price, closing costs, lender costs, escrow costs): $434kREHAB (LABOR + MATERIALS): $102kREHAB TIME: 10 WEEKSHOLDING COSTS (MORTGAGE, STAGING): $16KSALE PRICE: $...
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Hi everyone, I'm new to real estate and becoming book smart on the subject. A few friends of mine and I have a vision of building shipping container homes. I was wondering if anyone has done it before and how the pric...
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Thoughts on using HELOC for downpayments on new investment properties? Also would asking for 25K @1.5% interest be better than asking for 70K at 6.1% interest or is it better to ask for the higher amount incase a goo...
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So I had a tenant sign a one year lease pay me first and last months rent (1600) they were moving from out in the country to my sfr in town they called me the next morning and said they couldn't do it and moved all th...
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Hi Everyone,My name is Justin Christian. I just started looking into real-estate investing and am trying to learn as much as I can as fast as possible. I'm from the Kansas City area and work as a web application devel...
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I'm struggling to find the perfect solution for a thermostat in my STRs and wanted to hear about how everyone manages through this.Do you lock your thermostat and manage the temperature remotely? Do you leave it unloc...