John Boire
WA Tenants Protected from Discrimination BasedOn Source of Income
I live in Washington State which is very tenant friendly. I have read and used The Book on Managing Rental Properties as a reference and have always approached the Section 8 question from potential tenants with "inco...
Sean Brennan
What is the minimum amount of cash you would want to start full-time investing?
Okay, suppose someone plopped you down in a new market with a bundle of cash and said start full time RE investing for a living! What is the minimum amount of cash you would require?
I know there are many different ...
Dovid Staples
How to Value a Vacant Retail Space?
Hi BP,There is a small three tenant retail building in an A location that I've known for a while and noticed the tenants suddenly up and moved out. Not that they went out of business, but pretty much just moved to loc...
Seth Mosley
How do you determine Cash on Cash ROI?
I know how i do it, just interested to know how alot of you come to your percentage on here.I see some pretty high percentages, and wonder if you guys are factoring in the same numbers as I am in my equations (rent mi...
Marc Heflin
tax question
I am using quicken for real estate to handle all my finances. I am buying my first property, and am trying to categorize all the expenses. So here is how I understand it.
The down payment can not be written off.
All o...
Greg Myroth
Looking for Help Analyzing Potential Mobile Home Park Deal
Jefferson Lily's podcast on Mobile Home Park Investing got me excited about potentially investing in a park. I have been actively reading all I can and searching for deals. I am curious what experienced park investor...
Brian Gibbons
My 4000th post - Creative Financing do's and dont's
Every time I make a milestone BiggerPockets I do a really long post. This is my 4000 post so I thought that I would do a do's and dont's on creative financing--------Definition of creative financing is how can the sel...
Robert Andrade
How to calculate COC ?
So I've read that you divide the yearly rent by the down payment or cash in the deal? Is that close to right?
So if I have a 3plex and I occupy 1 of the units, how do I calculate COC?
I did a search and really couldn...
Neil J.
Would you buy under these numbers?
Hello everyone,I was just wondering if you guys think this is a good enough deal for a real estate investor.I'm having trouble talking the owner down any lower than the 160k I have listed, is this still a good deal? I...
Bryan Hancock
DTI Ratios For FNMA Loans When Borrower Has Rental Properties
Okay...With all of the threads going around about FNMA properties 5-10 I wanted to clarify how "DTI" is calculated for rental property for both the front-end and back-end ratios for:
1. Rental Property With Mortgage...