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Hello, everyone. I am a new condo owner in South Loop, Chicago. I bought a 2-bedroom condo in this area this year (2023), after renting for 11 years. I thought it was a good investment (for renting it out after living...
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Hello BP,I have an opportunity for a unique property that doesn't really fit into traditional lending portfolios and I could really use some advice for developing a creative acquisition strategy. Background: In 2011, ...
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Hi BP, I am new to the real estate investing world but have spent the last year learning more then I could have imagined through BP. Just last week I purchased my first investment which was a Turnkey Town home in the...
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I have an accepted offer on a great little lake house, which is in a township that has a 6 night minimum for STR.
It doesn’t appear anyone is abiding by this with STR in the area, based on the listings available. Kn...
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Hello all,Weird title for this post and thanks for clicking on it.My wife and I were just married Saturday and are finally looking to buy our first home together. Our market is overheated (I know everyone's is) and sh...
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It has been about 15 months since I purchased a 48-unit property in Wichita Falls, Texas. I want to share my story to inspire other BiggerPockets members and hopefully you can learn a thing or two from this acquisitio...
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When will a lender accept a short sale if note is NOT in default? Otherwise, the seller can do a personal note on the difference? Appraised value is 283,000. Owed is 219,000. Offer will be around 190,000.
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For those of you trying to raise capital right now in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, you will likely face challenges from your investors that are normally faithful in investing with your group.
Here are fou...
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Short Term Rental Arbitrage analysis
This topic keeps coming up recently recently and I feel like a broken record, so thought I would post about it and share how I run an analysis on a potential arbitrage deal, and h...
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hey All!Newbie investor here. I've been bitten by the real estate "bug" and love the prospects here in Indy. It's economically diverse, affordable, there is a fair amount of inventory and selection, it's large, the ...