Stephen Bernard
Help Others Learn from Your Experience!
Hello BP Military Community! What was your experience in your first CONUS PCS move? How did you evaluate purchasing vs renting? Any tips or tricks you wish you knew about before you executed the move? Let's learn from...
Matthew Paul
Type of Property to start out with
Hello, I was wondering what is the best beginner friendly to start off with? A single family home, or a duplex? It seems a single family home would be better tenant wise, but it’s not cashflow. It seems there are a lo...
AJ Wong
How to lower property management costs on luxury STR vacation rental property
When analyzing a luxury short term rental (STR) vacation home for investment in today's mortgage rate environment, the ROI & margins can be extremely tight. Investors that are looking to offset their investment co...
Tom Klein
Flipping a Fannie Mae property
I'm looking at a Fannie Mae property and my realtor told me this:
That house is a Fannie May product. You would have to occupy the property for a minimum of 1 year. Would only be able to sell for 125% of your...
Jason Brown
Researching to get get in the door.
I'm interested to get in REI and want to know if it's better to get a single unit property or a multi unit property for the first purchase. Also is seller financing a frequent occurrence or a pipe dream for someone wi...
Justin Coulson
Approaching a homeowner about purchasing their outdated home
I want to approach a homeowner about purchasing their home. It's not for sale. It's outdated and an eye sore in a red hot neighborhood that I'm very familiar with. I would love to flip the home, but don't know the bes...
Michael Chadinha
New investor from underrated Southern New Hampshire:)
Hey everyone, My name is Mike and I live in the great little town of Peterborough, NH. I closed on my first fourplex on 4/1/17. This building was built in 1890! Initially, the idea was to purchase this one building...
Jacob Ehrgott
Electrical issue
Just want to make sure this isn't anything super simple before paying for an electrician. I have a 4 unit house and the electric company took the meter off for one of the apartments. We eventually had to pay for an el...
Account Closed
Best way to finance your first investment property
Much of the advice I read says the best way to start investing is to live in your first home so that you can go FHA, making it a little easier to get started (lower down payment).My situation is unique in that my boyf...
Terry N.
What to put in rental ad as first wave of tenant screening?
Can anyone point me to a thread or comment on what they put in a rental ad that would increase the odds of getting quality tenants for a single family home? Thanks!