Bigger pockets mentors, I am looking for your take on my situation and what strategies you suggest I explore further. I have read forum after forum, Blog after blog and decided to get some of these wise answers specif...
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What is a good general strategy for thinking about when to refi a rental property to pull out equity that you can use to continue to scale your business? Are you doing it based on time and the current financial produc...
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I've read that just by switching your mortgage payments from monthly or bi-monthly to bi-weekly you can save a ton on your interest over a 30 year period. This led me to researching the difference between bi-monthly a...
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Listening to @Brandon Turner's webinar on BRRRR, and his first example looks like this:Buy house for $70,000Rehab: $30,000Closing costs: $2,500Total cost: $102,500Appraised after rehab for $141,000Refinance: 80% ($112...
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I am very new to the real estate world, but I have been consuming anything and every bit of content I can get my hands on. At this point, with a pretty good awareness of my (tiny) local market, I know with certainty t...
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I just had a sewer backup at my backyard cottage the other night, but our house was just fine. Come to find out that the side sewer line picks up the cottage, my neighbors house, then our house as it makes it way to t...
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What markets do you think are in the best position? What markets do you think are in the worst position? Why?
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Hello,I have been studying creative real estate for a couple of months now and would like to take a step further. My boyfriend's aunt wants to sell her house in PA, because her tenant does not pay the rent. The aunt l...
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Obviously a wise person would put away 6 months to 1 year of operating expenses for any property. Assuming that one did this, when following the 50% rule, is the property then labeled "self-sufficient?"
If this is t...
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Hello all,
My name is Matt and I am not actually in Kansas. I know that sounds strange given the thread title. I say this because my family is in Kansas and it is where I would like to set up shop. I am actua...