Daniel Lee
Small and Mighty Real Estate Investor Hopeful
Hi BP Community,Introducing myself as a "new" member, though more like newly active member to the community. Looking for cash flowing single family homes in the Portland, Beaverton, Newberg, Salem areas of Oregon. Cur...
Austin Henry
Live-In Contractor/Builder for Rental Property
Hello real estate gurus!
I recently had something of an 'Aha moment' about a method of real estate investing/rehab that I have not heard of before but figured someone here may have experience with. As a builder curre...
Ravi Rai
First time showing a property for rent as a landlord
So I bought a two family 5 bed apartment located in a student rental area (paid $128,00 currently rented for $1800 a month). The apartment was already rented until the school year (May 2013). The current tenants have...
Shafi Noss
How is the Principal Payment determined on a loan
Hi everyone,
I have a question about how much in excess of the interest is paid in each payment of a fixed rate loan. Suppose you have a 100k loan at 6%. An example from investopedia shows a schedule of
Payment
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Michael Kantar
Is it a good idea to invest out of state as a complete beginner?
Hi everyone, since I live in New York and the prices are so high up I was thinking to invest out of state to get better deals, but would it be a smart idea to do since I am a complete beginner to real estate investing...
Liam Floyd
Advice for a 17 year old
Hello, my name is Liam Floyd. I am a high school senior in Seattle Washington, I love real estate. My father moved from Vancouver Canada in 2004 to flip homes and since has made a killing developing Seattle real esta...
Josh Parra
Successful First Flip In New Market, Before & Afters!
After living in Boston for 12 years and learning from some of the BEST in the game, my wife and I decided to relocate back to her home town of State College, Pennsylvania. In Boston I worked with investors that conver...
Jacob Tudor
What are your thoughts about buy/hold around colleges/university
Hello, I'm a new investor. I'm trying to establish an effective criteria in todays fast moving fluid market. I'd like to get some experinced thoughts of buying and renting properties around university's. Of course ...
Timothy J. Cudjoe
Is Real Estate your passion ? Or is it fueling your passion ?
How many of you actually love doing Real Estate for the benefits it provide and who actually is doing it because they have a passion and its helping that ?? #curious
Karen M.
Deductible expenses?
OK, this feels like a stupid question, but....
--do you run your rental investments as a business, and...
--therefore, do you deduct all your business expenses, such as your REIA membership, miles driving around ...