Dan Barman
3% commission on hard money loan?
Am considering going in as a first time investor / hard money lender (limited partner) on a large (150+ unit), ground-up multi-family.The opportunity came to us by way of one of the managers of the deal, who is a frie...
Jack G.
Scanner/"Multipotentialite" Personality type? Why REI?
If this discussion is better suited for another category please let me know!In my first forum post I introduced myself and discussed what I was thinking was a conundrum at the time, but I'm beginning to reconsider. I ...
Scott Scharl
Does Your Financial Planner Recommend Real Estate?
I am considering a career change into the financial and retirement planning profession for my day job. From what I understand so far, I think that being a CFP who understands and recommends real estate would be a good...
Henry Clark
Self Storage- Deal 4
Start Small and make your big mistakes Early.
Deal breakers- market, finance, zoning, footings, road type, water/sewer availability, Storm sewers, Storm retention ponds. Everything else you can mess up and not get to...
Neal Bitter
Property Management Advice/Recommendations
I'm a new investor in the Baltimore area. Working with individual row homes. Looking for advice on property managers. Any recommendations? Any advice on smaller management teams vs large state/region wide management c...
Shawn Burns
Screening Tenants and Charging an Application Fee
Hello BP, For the landlords and property managers out there, do you require a perspective tenant to fill out an application before showing them the property or after? I'm struggling with the proper order of operations...
Don Konipol
Where Will the OPPORTUNITIES be in Note Investing in the Next Few Years?
“Notes” are such a BIG field, that I’ve found it more efficient, effective and profitable to target specific “arena” of notes at different times in different economic environments. I know most BP note investors deal...
William Coet
Real Estate or Stocks. Same ROI, Which is Better For Taxes?
If a RE investment and Stock investment return the same amount of ROI over a 15 year period and then sold which is the better investment? Assuming a 1031 is not used (they may not exist in 15 years), do certain struc...
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Questions about avg price for Granite Countertops
1. What is the average price for a Granite countertop by sqft?
2. Have you ever seen a tiled Granite countertop? Is that just plain weird?
3. Does anyone know any contacts in Chicago that might offer me a good price...
Nathan Claire
The "Subject To" Strategy
The famous “subject to.” Investors far and wide have pondered what this mysterious term refers to and how it can be utilized in putting a quality deal together. A subject to deal refers to purchasing a property “subje...