Nathan Wang
1st post, planning for 1st property, Rent SF or Buy Portland?
Hey everyone!Very excited to join the community and conversation here. I've been listening to the podcast, passively reading some real estate books and decided I needed to step my game up and start interacting, so her...
Ryan R.
Assistance analyzing a duplex in El Cerrito area of San Diego, CA
Hi All,In advance, thank you for any and all help/advice you are able to provide. My fiancee and I have an accepted offer on a duplex in San Diego, very close to San Diego State in a great neighborhood. The terms of t...
Aref Shehadeh
Partnership with contractor - what's fair?
Sparing some details here - I've completed a few flip projects using my contractor. Looking to partner up on the next project to see how it'll go. I'm the capital guy and accountant, he's the construction arm- we both...
Justin Young
Possible to have a seller financed deal combined with a loan?
Aloha BP!If an owner was willing to seller-finance more than 30% of the property's value, would a lender be willing to loan me the remainder of the deal? For example:Property worth : $320kSeller-finance : $120kLoan : ...
Mark K.
Having a partner for a deal
I'm working on getting my 6th door as a rental unit. Once I close on that, I'll have 3 single family homes and one triplex. I met with a friend today and he asked me about partnering up on a deal. To generalize a bit,...
Shiloh Lundahl
Getting Ready to buy our 2ND Property in COSTA RICA
Hey everyone, As some of you may know, I purchased a property on a mountaintop in Costa Rica earlier this year that we rent on Airbnb. It had a main house, a guest house, and we converted a shop into a grounds keeper...
Ben Bakhshi
Best way to invest with a flipper
Hi all,
I have been investing with a house flipper and wanted to get some advice on best practices on how to proceed.
The flipper collects funds from multiple individuals or LLCs. The flipper is suppose...
Umesh Menon
Victimized by WireFraud on a Real Estate Sale - Need advise
Hello BP Community,We sold our home and the portion of the funds (~ 400K) that had to be wired to our Mortgage Servicer was sent to a fraudulent account (Wire fraud) by the title company. While Title company is invest...
Rick Albert
Have $200K HELOC: What would you do?
Hello All,I would like to get other thoughts on this situation (because more minds means more creativity). I have one condo now (equity rich, cash flow poor). It is in LA but once we can raise rents, it will be fine o...
David Lund
How do you overcome adversity in real estate?
Would love to hear everyone’s strategies to overcome adversity in real estate to help them stick to and achieve their goals!