Wesley A Showalter
Midwest Housing Cash
Hey, just wanted to get some input on the midwest real estate market. I'm specifically looking in Columbus, Ohio to buy my first house hack and was wondering if I should wait to pull the trigger. Any advice would be g...
Rob Fuller
Your Real Estate Deal Won't Be a '72 Pinto: Follow This Advice!
Stephen Covey, famed author of "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People," claimed an important habit in achieving success was to "Begin With the End In Mind." This habit in real estate is critical to success of a ven...
Haley Elisabeth
Sell our current business to start full-time flipping?
My husband and I are considering selling our current business and reinvesting full time into house flipping (eventually then building our own real estate portfolio, as well). We would like to have more input from more...
Nawab I.
Need advice on hassle free rental investment
Hi thereWhile I have lived on the Westcoast for a good part of my life, I am out of US for past few years. Recently I discovered cheaper houses in Pittsburgh (compared to the west coast cities), and I am thinking to p...
Ellamarie Taylor
Extremely new California Rookie looking to invest out of state
Hey All, I'm extremely new to real estate investing I'm married with 4 young children that I homeschool. My husband is employed and of course our only source of income. We live in the San Francisco bay area and will b...
Jerel Davis
Attached Shed Conversion To A Bedroom Closet
I bought a 3/1 1250 sqf home and there's an attached shed with finished roofing right beside the guest room and you can see how the framing is attached to the home. It's on a concrete slab. It's about 100 sqf. The ...
Laura Ratcliff
Major concerns with property manager
My husband and I bought a rental property in San Antonio in June 2022. Because we live out of state, we decided to use a property management company to help us manage it. We own a couple rentals closer to home in Denv...
Joshua Wilson
Duplex with shared pool + how's my math?
From where I sit, this Duplex configuration looks hard to sell to a potential tenant. Shared back patio and miniature in-ground pool? That plus the bad math have me looking at this as a bad investment property.Homes...
Caleb Teachout
Stocks vs. Real Estate
Excerpt from a post I made on the stock investing forum "The Motley Fool." The audience is stock investors who are equally passionate and successful in stocks as the BP community is in REI. Many of them think going al...
Keith Jourdan
Appraised value question
I often see homes advertised "50k appraised at 65k". Just an example. So does that mean one can buy the house for 50k then take more equity out of the property then 50k he used to buy it?? im confused here.