Vasily R.
Nothing in Seattle MFH house-hacking makes cashflow. Am I crazy?
I am working with two agents who showed me a bunch of MFH properties: mostly duplexes, some 4plexes. One in UW, many in Greenlake, some in Cap Hill/First Hill and a couple in West Seattle. My plan is to house-hack wit...
Jay Hinrichs
Todays Jobs Reports on the news
If you saw the news this morning JOBs report is not as good as anticipated.I dont know about other parts of the country but when I went to a Panda Express to buy MIss Lori some lunch big poster for hiring15.50 an hour...
Ron Brady
Avoiding Bias. How do other investors do it?
A CA couple is suing an appraiser for what they assert is a lowball appraisal: https://www.washingtonpost.com... For a second appraisal, they removed all hints that a black couple lived in the home and they asked a wh...
Joshua McGinnis
My first out-of-state turnkey was a bust (sort of)
Just thought I'd share a story for any others out there considering buying a multi-family out-of-state, sight-unseen, from another BP member who markets and manages properties.I found a deal on the BP Marketplace in t...
Salvatore Lentini
So you want to become a real estate investor?
It's that time again...The light is on and I'm taking questions. If you've read a real estate book, gone through some real estate forums, watched some videos and you KNOW you want to become a real estate investor but...
Gregory Greene
Cash-flow Cities in Texas
Hello, I am a new real estate investor looking to purchase multi family properties in Texas. So far I was told that Lubbock TX would have great cash flowing properties. I ran some numbers based on some properties on Z...
Jim K.
Do You Understand How Ugly This Is Going to Be?
There is nothing sane about what you have to be prepared to do in order to make a start in this business. Please take that as a given. The only thing I can fully agree with Grant Cardone about is his statement that re...
J Scott
Diary of a Rental Property
I had a blast writing my Diary of a New Construction Project thread, and the feedback I got from that was great. So, I've decided to try another one...this time tracking and discussing the ongoing saga of a renta...
Hassan Omar
For Jan, Feb and March I'm going to buy some houses; here's how..
Hey folks, happy new year.
The other day I was asked to show a friend all the steps required to find and buy a fixer upper house here in the Atlanta market. Not a hard task, but doing it the right way is. That said ...
Brian Adams
I quit my CPA Job to buy Large Apartment Buildings
I have always been fascinated with real estate.I started in 2000 investing in a couple rental houses.My "AHA" moment came in 2008 to move away from the single rentals and graduate up to large apartment complexes.My ba...