Paul Ortiz
Design & Rehab Budget Advice
Question and/or advice.How would you handle a Rehab when the Design and Budget clearly are not in line with each other?Situation:Client has the home, hired a architect, have the permits but now the budgets are way ove...
Sean Gribbons
Financing For Large Condo Conversion Project
Hi BP Community,
Does anyone know how a large scale condo conversion project finds financing for the end buyer? Looking at the underwriting rules for FHA and CONV investors can only own a certain percentage of the ...
Monica Marker
Sold $300k piece of land that I inherited. Now what?
I recently inherited and sold a vacant strip of land for $300k. I do not have any other assets and I do not own a home at this time (I rent). I am hoping to capitalize on a 1031 Exchange and thinking of buying an apar...
Christen G.
Seeking mentor in Commercial
Hi folks,I'm a newbie to commercial RE but have several small multi's right now. As I'm looking to scale this or next year I've been reading, educating myself and trying to run numbers. The books make it all so neat a...
Derek Wolpert
New investor financing
Hello all,I’m brand new to investing, actually haven’t even started yet. Just a quick question though. I’m in the Long Island, NY market where houses are very expensive. Even if I have 20% for a investment, should I l...
Randall Brooks
First time poster, long time lurker
First time posting to BP forums but have been researching and learning from BP for some time now.I'm 31 and currently live in north Idaho and the RE market is booming here. After years of preparation I finally left my...
Sarah Lorenz
How to sell a house during preconstruction
We are planning to move into new construction soon (my husband has a builder’s license), and as opposed to building a spec house and waiting until it is finished to sell, I have heard that some builders/investors will...
Aaron Gorum
Contractor didn’t do a good job
We just finished a kitchen renovation around Newport RI and we aren’t happy with the quality of work provided. First, the contractor ran way over timeline. I didn’t have a penalty for that because I thought a simple k...
Joanne Tsai
PM charges too much fee to get it rent ready?
Dear BPers:we typically identify the specific areas we'd like to invest in and find the PMs to serve as our realtors and future PMs.In this situation, we bought a house through the realtor/owner of the PM, and we are ...
Kurt S.
What tools or data would make your investing better / easier?
I think about data a lot. In fact, it's what I do for a full time job (data scientist). Part of what attracts me to BiggerPockets is the valuing of clear metrics such as COCROI, being careful about estimating potentia...