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Hey everyone, first time poster here.
I'm interested in putting some money to work in one or two modest properties just to get my feet wet. I plan on starting a new LLC to do this.
However, I've read about a 2 doze...
I can grab around 250,000 of equity on my primary home, using a revolving HELOC at 3.25% variable.
In my market, this will only fund a down payment.
Is this a good time to be doing this, considering there’s a reces...
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Hi!
I would love to get the ball rolling on investments- either fix/flip or rental units. Here Is our scenario:
We live in Southern California in a historical home (almost zero property tax) and very well protected ...
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I am a newbie looking at Orlando. Then in some of my previous threads, lots of people mentioned Tampa and Jacksonville.So I figured, wth, I'll just take a look. And Wow! Huge, newer houses for super cheap. I couldn't ...
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Hi guys,I have a few general questions about investing in small commercial real estate properties:Estimating expenses:- The property is located in uptown NY and has four 1/1 units and one 2/1 unit and was recently reh...
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Hello everyone. Would like to ask the community for some advice on starting out. I live in Los Angeles, have about $75k, excellent credit, and great W2 income. I am looking to start out in REI and could use some gu...
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Hello BP community,I'm in late thirties. I relocated to Seattle about 4 years ago with my wife and 2 kids (4 and 7). I have a house since 2017, which may offers a line of credit approx. about $100K. I wanted to use th...
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I’ve been wanting to find a rental property since I started listening to bigger pockets, so when my wife and I decided we wanted to relocate from Denver to San Diego I thought it would be a perfect opportunity to rent...
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Currently looking at an investment as an LP and the sponsor is assuming a refi at the end of year 5 with a I/O term of 36 months.To me this feels like they are doing that to juice the returns in the pro forma and errs...
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I wrote a blog recently about how Appreciation has historically compared by region and then zoomed into my market in Santa Cruz County. The results were quite fascinating. A 7.98% Compound Annual Growth Rate since 201...