Chris Marshall
Rentals vs flipping
So I have $100,000 to invest of my own money. I have done no real estate investing yet. My real estate agent friend recommends me going into rentals and my accountant (and mentor who owned three rentals and just sold ...
Wendy Black
Complicated 1031 Question
Can you do a partial 1031 and pay taxes on the portion that is not used?
We have a SoCal condo in an LLC that's valued at $500k. We owe $85k. That would leave us $415k profit. Could we take $270k to buy one rental...
Gary Burnham
Looking to invest cash short term for return
Hello BP, I was exploring other ideas for parking cash in a secured investment for 6-12 months that would beat the classic 1% moneymarket. Any ideas would be welcome
Patrick Zepeda
Benefits of private capital markets and "negative leverage"
In commercial, institutional players don't touch deals sub $20M due to the lack of scale and unfavorable financing (many banks, debt funds and lifeCos won't lend on small deals, or would offer bad terms and full recou...
Sarah Miller
What holes are in my strategy?
Hello! This is only my second post on BP. I am a new investor from NE Ohio. My husband and I recently purchased/are waiting to close on our first duplex (50/50 rule applies perfectly, making $600/mo profit or 300 e...
Steven C. Suarez
How to divvy up with partners on buy/holds
Hi friends, how do y'all usually divvy up money made from buy and holds that a partner/partners have helped you to buy? For example if I bought a 100k home in my name and needed 20% down and a partner gave me 10k (10%...
Charles Whitaker
$ reinvested/$ paid to you
I know that each person has their own opinions about their money but how much do you allocate when reinvesting? Also, what do you pay yourself out of profits? I would like to know what others are doing and trend from ...
Cody W.
Flip or rent? New purchase-take profit or rent long term?
Just purchased a property under market value. Option 1 is to flip immediately not touching the property and make $15-18k profit after all done. Would pay short term capital gains so more like $10-$12K profit. Option ...
Vincent Crane
Larry loftis - Investing in Duplex, Triplexes and Quads
Who else has read this book? It has some great infomration in it, but he bought all these units right before the crash. He was buying with no money or 5-10% down and doing refi's to have no equity to buy more deals an...
Simon Cox
What would you do?
Hey everyone!I would love to hear your different opinions on the best way to bring in $100,000 of passive income a year in the next 7 years starting with $50,000 cash. What strategy would you use? I'm trying to help o...