Gary P.
My first RE investment before the first rent check
My first post while riding the ripple of closing on my first investment propertyWhy?I followed the path I was taught since grammar school: go to school, get a job, live below your means, save your money, retire. While...
Chris Johnson
Selling our rehab business as a going concern
I am currently rehabbing homes in the New Orleans market and have done so for several years. Our typical rehab is an historic home renovated from the studs out and will sell for between $200-400K. Gross sales in 2013 ...
Jason Mak
California vs. Texas
Starting this thread after reading through the "Austin is Hot" thread. After reading that thread, the Austin atmosphere looks similar to California. I'm a California investor and certainly a dearth of deals out ther...
David Bergmann
BRRBNB - A Winning Strategy!
Hey all - just wanted to share my experience with our most recent deal, which is a variant of the BRRR strategy that I'll refer to as BRRBNB (Buy, Rehab, Refinance, BNB). This has been a very good investment to us so...
Brian Ellis
Nice little surprise
Starting renovating my first rental property. It is a duplex located in a mostly single family neighborhood. One unit was vacant and very outdated (as you can see), and the other one was recently renovated by the sell...
Lola Ajilore
Duplex not selling in Los Angeles
Hello All,I have a duplex that I put on the market in Los Angeles 30 days ago and it has been really slow for showings and no offers. One of the units is vacant and updated which I thought would make for a good owner...
Ken D.
Stinky tenants when showing unit
I've got a problem with a group of tenants who haven't been willing to keep their unit even remotely clean during showings for the last four weeks. They've got three cats and two litter boxes, and the entire unit stin...
Sean Kollee
inner city duplex part 1-4
OK, Im going to run through a project here in its painful entirety - start to finish. I will figure out if I can post here efficiently so it is easy to follow along, text, images etc. I have all the material on my we...
Remon Rasho
Newbie - house hacking + long term strategy help
Hello All,
I've been on this forum (on and off) for years and never quite made anything work in Real Estate as I didn't have the income or credit to invest. I sold my property a couple of years ago and moved from IL....
Michael Johnson
Theres absolutely positively no way ..... is there?
Michael Johnson, unproven; yet serious.I walked into a local real estate office and chatted with a lovely realtor named Annabelle. After 15 or so minutes, boom she invites me to her office and we started looking at th...