Hey! What metrics do you personally use to decide whether a property would make a good buy & hold investment or not? Cash on Cash?Discounted Cash Flow?Internal Rate Of Return?Net Present Value? Cap Rate?A combinat...

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I am very curious to learn more about the relationship between home insurance and house age. I have a couple of investment properties in Dallas. One is 2013 built, 2151 sq feet in Little Elm (on the b...

I am currently starting out getting involved in the real estate world. I am seeking funding and one option I have is I currently live in a reversed-mortgaged family members home. I plan to purchase the home from them,...

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I am new to the Bigger Pockets community. My husband and I are looking into purchasing our first investment property. We have a primary residence that has about 350k of equity. Our current rate is 3% so a ca...

Hello everyone,I am a newbie! I am looking for ideas/ strategies on the farming approaches that some of you are executing to generate seller leads? Also, any tips on determining when a market is ideal for investing? L...

Does anyone have experience acquiring seller financing deals? I'm nervous because we are highly leveraging this (95%). Which means no cash flow in year one. Any advice here would be helpful.

Also- does seller financ...

How to Gage Economic Conditions

These are ways to determine economic conditions:

- Local Sales Tax Reports - paying close attention to the major factors affecting the major employers

- Auto sales - dig down to le...

As many of us are experiencing, prices of homes and condos nationwide are up quite a bit.  I have been looking at consideration of costal vacation rentals in the Florida market.  I have been centering on properties cl...

Interested in purchasing a vacation home in downtown Seattle. Specifically looking in the Belltown area. Just started exploring what is available, prices, and rents. It seems there is a significant discrepancy with th...

Short story I have a SFH that I rented out and the tenant is essentially abandoning. They can no longer afford the rent due to a divorce. Now I am trying to decide to sell (take the long term cap gains hit) versus a 1...