Terri Lewis
Marketing my first property
I have our first property under contract. After 12 days trying to move it, nothing significant has transpired. I am wondering if it is the marketing I lack, or the area. I feel it is a great deal but I have only h...
Delicia M.
Need Advise on Money Pit - Should I Sell As Is?
I purchased a 3 bed/2 bath bungalow one year ago for $20K with the intent to flip. The home is located in a part of SC that's hard to find available contractors or help. After a month of searching, I found a unlicens...
Juan J.
Estimating rehab in Los Angeles sight unseen.
Whats a good shoot from the hip price per sqft for a general rehab on a typical single family house?
Gary Garcia
Hard to become Section 8 rental owner or bad idea?
I know that most landlords avoid this route but I heard it provides stable cash flow and less evictions required but you need to make the property pretty durable. A high NOI portfolio has come up and is affordable/pos...
Jerry W.
NEED ADVICE ON FIXING UP A SHORT TERM RENTAL
To all of you who have short term rentals I would appreciate your thoughts and advice on rehabbing a property for a short term rental. I have a duplex where one half has been fixed up and is very clean and nice and I...
Michelle Thomas
My tenant would like the carpet replaced...What should I do?
Hello BP family, Okay, Here's the situation ...My tenant of moved into my townhouse in January of 2017. Since then she has had a long laundry list of replacement request. To make a long story short...The carpet in the...
Robert Fisher
Zestimate is 50% of asking price. Can I use zestimate to make an offer?
I am looking at a property where the zestimate is almost 50% of the asking price (517K vs. 995K). I understand zestimate is perhaps the result of some robotic formula calculation; but it has to be based on something ...
Shawn Pottschmidt
percentage saved by do it yourself
I read a lot about hiring a contractor. Has anyone ever calculated how much they saved by not using contractors and did most of the rehab work themselves? Or the real question is what percent of costs is going to con...
Belle Tseng
My First Investment in Cedar Park, TX (near Austin)
Hello Everyone,I've finally decided on my first property investment, and it is in Cedar Park, TX, just northwest of Austin. I've just gotten into contract, and like everyone's recommendation on a property manager. I...
Samantha M.
Pink and Green Bathrooms
Out of curiosity, does anyone know why pink and green bathrooms were so common in older homes? Was it a matter of popular style back then, was there some sort of money saving component? I would like to know if anyone ...