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After an 11-year hiatus, I am resurrecting my blog about my adventures in real estate investing. I'm not a writer but a small-time investor with 70 rentals. It's free. I'm not going to try to sell you anything.At this...
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Hi everyone,There are couple of ways to value the price of land in depreciation, such as the 80/20 (20% to land) and Using Property Tax assessor's values, or getting an assessment of recently sold lots in the area.I w...
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Currently closing on a house and looking for home owners insurance for a 2 family house. Any suggestions on where to get the best rates ?
The home I invested in is an older home but with renovations done to it a cou...
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Investment Info:
Large multi-family (5+ units) buy & hold investment.
Purchase price: $3,561,613
Cash invested: $50,000
Projected to exit in 7-10 years with the following returns:
5-9% Cash on Ca...
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Does anyone have any recs for buying kitchen cabinets? I've heard that you can make them custom online and save a bunch. It feels like kitchen cabinets have increased insanely. I have a rental in the NY/NJ area and th...
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I'm looking at a house tomorrow as a potential next value-add project (either flip (primary) or BRRRR (secondary)) that can only be best described as "ugly." Was built in early 60s and if I had to categorize the styl...
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Hi everyone! I am closing on my first rental property tomorrow and trying to decide which insurance company I should go with. This is a 2 unit duplex with each unit having 2 bedrooms and 1 bath. I got several quotes f...
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I'm putting vinyl planks throughout one of my rentals. Has anyone used the same color planks for the entire house?? Is that weird?? I thought about maybe doing a different color in the bedrooms. Thoughts?
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Hi BP. I have a new rental that doesn't have heat or air and I'm not planning to put a new HVAC system in...yet. What would be the best heat/air combo windo unit brand to put into my property? I need 3.
Thanks.
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I'm new to this site! I manage 15 units and all of them are mostly original. Rents are at market prices and we still increase $50-100 per door, per year. No one has moved out in 4 years and no one is planning on it.So...