Colin Simon
Modular financing methods to build cashflow in expensive markets
Many of us who live in expensive markets are constantly trying to allocate capital in RE, but struggle to find cash flowing deals.You might even have the income to pay off a good chunk of a mortgage, but you won't wan...
Ben Bartels
Using personal home equity for investing
Do you have any recommendations/guidelines around using equity in your personal home for investing? Is it smart to keep refinancing into 30-year mortgages since the interest rate on that money is lower than other loan...
Matthew Sexton
New Member Introduction
Hello everyone!I am fairly new to real estate investing. I moved to Indianapolis in 2012 for a job and moved up in the company pretty quickly. At first I decided to go back to school and get a couple masters degrees...
Mark Forest
Third pet
It took us several months to get tenants into our single family rental property. These tenants pay on time every month and are otherwise fine. The original agreement was to charge them an additional $25.00 a month f...
Gabriel E. Martinez
Owning an investment property before your own home
I am an renter, and I am in a hurry to start using real estate as an investment. I think I have enough savings to buy a small place, but nothing as nice and as big as where we live. (Actually, this is where we have go...
Amir Adib
Eviction ban help during Cares Act
One of my properties has a tenant that just started to get behind in February and we tried a payment plan to help get caught up. March rolls around and boom, eviction ban, courts shut down. Now, they did tell me earli...
Thomas Nance
Are rents changing in your downturn ?
I’m primarily a multi family but non-commercial landlord/investor. Here on the outskirts of Charlotte, I’m seeing the signs of a downturn in our market and am curious how rents are affected by downturns. I started in ...
Bill D.
Renter Screening during COVID
Are you landlords relaxing your screening criteria now because of job losses or uncertainty during Covid? Or do you essentially NEVER relax your standards, no matter what the sob story?
Account Closed
Rentals. Do they matter anymore?
How many people out there thought rentals were the path to wealth? Are any of you questioning that now? I guess there is a good argument that eventually things will go back to normal and rentals will once again be the...
Joseph Cahill
Need advice for first purchase
My fathers friend is willing to sell his condo to us the town over from me. He is asking $30,000 more than what it is worth currently, due to the fact that he bought it at the height of the market in 2007. These are ...