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For buy and hold investors out there, how do you guys think about appreciation and how do you factor it in to your buying and selling decisions, if at all? What key factors do you use to measure the potential for appr...
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I think the constant discussion of California vs anywhere else is intriguing. So I pose a question. Hypothetical, if a person had a 2 million dollars to invest, they purchased property with 1 million in California an...
Excuse what is going to be a long rant - for the sake of my sanity I need to get this off my chest. I have another username on Biggerpockets (no, Adam Smith is not my real) which is my real name - but for this post I ...
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Sooo I have three houses that are all former primary residences that are now rentals. None of the homes were bought with the intention to rent them out, so the sale price and mortgages weren't optimized to be rentals....
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Last January my husband and I started out as full time Realtors. Right off the bat we got 2 listings so he quit his day job and we hit the ground running. Since then we’ve had only a couple more closings from buyer tr...
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Hey friends,Really struggling with paying 25-30% of our gross to a property manager on our first STR. I love all the details that go into AirBNB (decor, set-up, marketing copy, customer service), so the only things I ...
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I want to build a real estate investing business. I want to buy and hold, I want to rent I want to do BRRRR’s and I feel like High School is holding me back. I also want to get a job working with GC starting out as a ...
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I was just going through some of the construction companies in Indianapolis, for my own related work purposes, clicking on links and such. I found a lot of the links go nowhere and or the phone numbers are no longer s...
Hi everyone,I am looking at some turnkey providers and would like to know about you guys' personal experiences. They do have a big inventory and they do provide a vast variety of properties. They do charge markups on ...
A couple disclaimers before I start:If you look through my profile and previous posts, you'll see that I am young (just turned 22), and also may believe I don't have the right mindset or maturity yet to start REI. Thi...