Daniel Bolinger
W/S/G Cost Allocation to Tenants
Under Contract for a duplex Should I always pick up the cost of the water, sewage, and garbage or is it common to hand off some of these costs to the tenant? Or just add it to the cost of the rent.
Jesse Imes
Short Term Rental Refi
Hi!
I am currently looking for the best STR refi lender for 6 STR homes. The homes are singles and doubles. Market value for each home after reno is 175-200k. All homes will cash flow at least 40k-60k per year in pop...
Cory Anderson
Selling our duplex, appraisal coming back really low
Happy Monday everyone!We just finished a full (pretty much everything) renovation on our duplex that we put up for sale and received 3 offers, went into contract $16k over ask, 17 days on the market. We averaged 1 sho...
Mark Malevskis
FHA Loan Question Regarding 75%
Hello all, I had a question about the FHA 3.5% down payment loan. To my understanding, for instance if it is a 4 unit property, to qualify for this loan, 3 of the 4 units must cover the entire mortgage. Does anyone kn...
Benjamin Paul
Forced Appreciation Lost Depreciation.... BRRRR
I'm looking for solutions to a working but not ideal business model.
I bought in cash a cheap, run down house in a desirable neighborhood and am preparing to rent it as a single family home. I will have 150k into it ...
Steve S.
Opportunity Fund or 1031 Exchange: Which is better?
The 1031 Exchange has been one of the most tax efficient investment vehicles available to real estate investors for many years. However, with the creation of Opportunity Funds under the Opportunity Zone program, the 1...
Account Closed
Single Family vs. Multifamily
More new investor questions from a new investor. Again, even as a newbie, I know where I stand. I will definitely be buying single family properties if the numbers make sense, but my focus will be on multifamily becau...
Wendell De Guzman
Real Vacancy Factor
After owning a bunch of rental properties, I realized that for Single Family Homes, your real vacancy factor is not necessarily 10%. Why? If you have a mortgage on the house, logically then, if it becomes vacant, y...
Jeremy Margaritondo
Comparing Renting vs House Hacking By The Numbers
Yesterday I posted about how my wife and I are moving from San Francisco to Chicago and looking to do a house hack. @Brie Schmidt gave me some pretty good advice around tradeoffs between price, location, cash flow, et...
Andrew Bosworth
First Self Storage facility
After focusing primarily on single and multifamily rentals since I began investing a number of years ago, I became increasingly interested in self storage over the past year. I did some research and homework and bega...