Hey BP Forum!     When you purchase a buy and hold property do you believe in making only necessary repairs or do you go in and gut the place even if it doesn’t help your ROI?     I’ve been going back and forth on thi...

Hey folks.   I had an emergency repair at one of my buildings (boiler died in winter) that I had to put on my credit cards.  I put a total of $30,000 on my cc for individual furnaces in each of the 8 units. I had a cr...

Calling all contractors, what software or cloud based systems are you using for bidding jobs? What software are you using (if separate from bidding) to manage jobs (calendars, plans and files uploads, gant charts, CRM...

Hey everyone, I'm hoping to get some feedback from the community about this content. This is a really in depth market analysis. It happens to be of the Dallas metro area, but even if you're not interested in investing...

Hello BP,I am struggling with my apartment underwriting standards. I use a set of conservative or semi-conservative rules that should keep me out of trouble if the market turns against me. What I keep finding out is t...

To find a great property it requires two things: accurate ARV and precise ERC. When learning to estimate ERC correctly I was thinking the best way to go about it is to find active rehabbers at REI clubs, see if you ca...

Hey everyone! My name is Dante Barnes and I am from Texarkana, TX. I am 22 years old, and just got married 3 months ago. I have been studying real estate through podcasts, books, and networking for the last 6 months a...

I'm in the process of starting my first direct mail campaign for absentee owners in Chattanooga. I have made lists for each zip code in my area so I can do them zip_code-by-zip_code. I if I Let them go to a Google voi...