Hello BP,My Question: Which cities are prime for cash flowing 1-4 unit properties and what metrics specifically do you use and from what site? Census Bureau? REIT reports? etc.  Anyways, I'm working on selecting 2 cit...

After over a decade of doing this, I still don't understand how the debt terms directly affect the Cash on Cash return of a deal. For simplicity, define CAP Rate (:= NOI/Purchase Price) and COC (:= Cash Flow/Total Cas...

Realtor.com just released their 2018 Forecast for Top 100 cities, see where your city ranks against others. Ranked by sales growth and price growth.  Forecast to include increase inventory, interest rates going up, 2....

Bought our first home 2 months ago, we got a good price and decided to do just 10% and keep the additional $ for emergencies and upgrades then have the home reappraised a year later to remove PMI (extra $100 a month)H...

Hi all,Im having a difficult time narrowing down our next location to invest in. I have 12 locations ranging from Columbus, OH to Winston-Salem/Gastonia, NC to San Antonio, TX and a bunch in between. Im in Northern NJ...

This is mostly for the women on BP, but, it is wise for men too. There's an Arkansas Realtor that went to show a property and hasn't been heard from since. Missing RealtorAs an agent over the years I have heard these ...

Hello fellow BPers!   I'm a real estate investor in Hudson County, NJ (as difficult as that may be right now) and am starting to look at properties in towns that I'm less familiar with in order to find cash-flowing de...

I just received a call from my banker telling me that this policy would be effective on June 29 2008. This really slow down a lot of new investors like me. Does anyone know if this applies for the whole lending indust...

Hi,So I'm currently analyzing a property I found through Marshall Reddick that is in Memphis, 38119 (I look for the zip code in the forums but didn't turn up much).Essentially, this looks like it is in a good neighbor...