Zachary Taylor
Do you separate your expense reserves from your cash flow?
Hello everyone,I'm wondering how people handle their expense reserves and cash flow. Do you keep it in the same account? Do you separate the two? Do you put the expense reserves in a checking and cash flow into a sav...
Dave Thomson
Should I eat into my savings for a good deal?
I've currently analyzed a solid deal that would result in a monthly cash flow of ~$615/month, and has a ~31% Cash on Cash ROI (used the biggerpockets rental calc). However, I'd have to eat into my savings in order to ...
James Leonis
Aspiring Denver Investor
Hello,I am looking to get into the real estate market. I currently save about $2500-$3000/month and have accumulated over $40,000 in savings. I have been toying with a few different ideas as follows:-Buy a fixer upp...
Yushengji Zhou
First time investor
Hi, My name is Roger. I currently live in Los Angeles. I get to know bigger pockets and the real estate investing world last year.From that moment, I have been saving up. So far, I have saved about 50k and i want to b...
Tyler W.
Explain it to me like I'm 5: How do you get rich in real estate? Seems like it takes many many years to get positive cash flow.
Please help clear my mind from my skewed point of view of how REI works.My goal is to buy a multiplex apartment building and live in one of the units. So I'm guessing that I'd have to put something like $50,000 down f...
Blake Willis
Help/advice on first time purchase on property with cash
So my friend and his family own a very successful construction company. They have a piece of property they are going to sell to me for 60k to live in. I’ll get the deed then go get a HELOC and they will do all the wor...
Vincent Plant
Best thing to do with cash flow?
I just picked up my first rental income property. I am in the process of having it rented out and have a tenant scheduled to move in within the next few weeks. If everything goes the way it should (the tenant pays the...
Danielle Mulvena
401K loan or savings?
I am purchasing my very first deal and trying to decide if I should use a 401K loan or my savings to fund the down payment and closing costs. With 10% down, the property has a 12% CoC ROI and a 21.5% annualized retur...
Timothy VanWingerden
How do you plan for CapEx?
Obviously capital expenses don't happen the same way we save up for them so I'm curious as to how you all plan for them in your investments. Do you religiously allocate a certain % of rental income per month for CapEx...
James Zobrisky
What to do with Cash Flow
What is everyone's best advice for where to store your cash flow. I currently have a single family property averaging $330 a month in cash flow which is going into a basic checking account seperate from personal. This...