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They make it sound so easy in the podcast. "Get a hard money loan, then just refinance that bitch and cash out! Easy peasy!" Here in Canada you usually can only refinance 80% of the appraised value. So you'd have to b...
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I jumped into real estate investing and purchased a single-family house with converted back garage apt. My cash flow is not in the positives, but since I live here too...am I doing okay? I would like to raise rents to...
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Hey All, I just got my townhome back from insurance rebuild and instead of selling it i have decided i will go ahead and rent it out for now for the cash flow. My question is the kitchen is a Mahogany tint cabinet set...
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Hello,I am a solid contractor with good referrals wanting to get into flipping but don't have the credit score to make loans work. Is hard or private money out of the question too? Any creative suggestions on how to s...
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Hi BP family:
Hope all had a great July 4th holiday.
My question to the group is pretty straight forward.......How do you actually avoid having a tenant use the security deposit as the last months rent? You can ag...
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Is this a sound investment strategy?
Acquire a building . We get a hard money loan for 50%-60%. We then ask the seller to carry a note for the other portion. Of course we will have points and other costs. We then...
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We had just made an offer and it was accepted. A couple hours later we find out there was a shooting just 2 blocks down on the same street. The neighborhood is generally pretty nice. Somewhere between a C moving towar...
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Greetings BP friends,So, my business partner and I live in Los Angeles and we are in the entertainment business. We've decided to create a new business entity to combine our companies and scale up our services. We pro...
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TLDRWhat skills do multi family investors find valuable (either niche or hard to find) when entering, managing, or exiting an investment?The long versionI know many of you investors have and will invest in and manage ...