David Lowrimore
Real estate agent switches brokerage before escrow closes
I'm wondering if anybody has experienced this or heard of this before and if this is normal or a red flag?Our real estate agent has been great and found us a good house hack. We put in an offer and fast foward we clos...
Angelica Osusky
Meeting with motivated seller - Advice needed
A young motivated seller recently reached out to me. She is looking to sell her home asap due to a bad break up. It is a 3bd 1ba small ranch home they bought it last year for 120,500 & have a balance of around 80k...
Josh Baker
Rehab estimates on my first property
I will be starting a remodel of a duplex next week and I've put together a spreadsheet of estimated costs and durations for the various subtasks. The home is 2000 sqft. and has an additional 500 sqft. partially finis...
Kay H.
Took my first real estate license classes this weekend. What took me so long???
I'm so excited!!!! I was wholesaling but now I'm going to get some real credibility. The classes were outstanding. as I left, I couldn't believe I had spent so much time chasing after the small percentage of wholesa...
Brandon Snyder
How to start out as an assistant
So I'm in the process of getting my real estate license here in California. I studied and UCLA Extension for nine months, and passed the exam on the first try. All that's left is to get my fingerprints back from the...
Ryan Parsons
Townhouse Property Question -- Rent or Flip? (Numbers included)
Hi everyone, I'm new to BP but wanted to bounce my next move off of the wealth of knowledge here on the forums.Right now I have a townhouse in the zipcode 55303 in MN. My mortgage has $63,000 left. I bought it in a sh...
Julie Fullmer
How to figure out if STR will work in a 'new to you' area?
We are probably moving to the Yuma area in the next couple months and I was wondering if there is a good way to figure out if there is a viable market for Short Term Rentals? There are some in the area but is there a ...
Kim Kaiser
What is a true return
Scenario,Buy duplex 400,000note on 320,000Gross income 53kafter expenses, note etc you have a net income of 21000.00ok, you have put up, 80k, after your expenses, which include note, taxes, everything i...
Matt Pfefferlen
Overturned Foreclosure Sale?
Hi, I was just a bidder, and I am wondering what are the chances that this foreclosure sale gets rescinded in California. The auction starts as normal. The last bid is 100k over opening bid before the auctioneer get...
Umar Farooq
Need help evaluating a condo to buy or not
Good afternoon guys,I need your help in evaluating a deal. It's a 2 bedroom 1 bath condo with a half finished basement. Assn fee is 180Property taxes 200 Insurance 75Vacancy 125 Maintenance 150Capital expenditure 100P...