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Hey guys, this is my first post here; thank you to anyone willing to share their input with a newbie investor.
I am a Canadian looking to move to the US for work and start investing in rental properties. My goal is ...
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Hello beautiful people of BP, Today is one of those days that made me feel dumb. But the good news, I finally "get" something instead of just knowing about it. For a long while, I felt that way about Return On Equity ...
I'm in a situation where there is very little banks will give me for leveraging rental homes despite having a good amount of assets and excellent credit because I haven't had any income in 4 years (long story short: I...
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Hello everyone, I have been scavenging through the forums lately looking for some advice on this and listening to a Podcast right now. Question is how does an eager hopefully soon to be investor get into the game wit...
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As everyone is getting for the holidays to ramp up and the new year to turn, I want to give some insight into a simple thing that me and my team have been doing to increase our ROI by about 10-15% each month. Some pe...
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Okay first the good news. PenFed is really amazing when it comes to HELOCs for a Rental Property. 80% LTV. Very fast response. I applied Friday and heard Monday I was approved, "when do you want the appraisal?". Appra...
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Hello,
I’m looking at some potential properties going to tax auction here in SoCal. I stopped by a few of them and noticed people are living in there. The houses are just trashed so I’m wondering if they’re squatters...
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I might find myself with $10k, and if I do, I want to be able to use $8K of it be a private investor because:
a) I feel I can get the return in 90 - 120 day, if it's a rehab project.
b) Duh! It's better then a bank....
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Hey guys,
I'm trying to see how else i can find apartment owners who are motivated and WANT to sell. Something I did was I printed 100 postcards with a generic message of 'saw your apartment, do you want to sell'. I'...
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I'm looking for an online resource that has data on average cash on cash returns for multi family investments in a given area. I live in California and I know that this state has MUCH lower returns than say the Midwe...