Michael Plaks
Forbes columnist on Opportunity Zones
Here is a less than optimistic take on Opportunity Zones:https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterjreilly/2019/02/22/opportunity-zones-look-great-for-everybody-except-investors/Summary:meh for investorsgreat for those who ow...
Teila Cornelius
Does it matter how my car looks when starting in real estate investing?
I have educated myself with wholesaling and even found what strategies I will do.... but as I began to jump right in I remembered how my car looked. It is a 99 nissan maxima and I recently got into an accident so the ...
Greg Stetz
Social media (facebook, instagram..)
Besides the BP forums, how can the major social media sites such as instagram, facebook, twitter, linkedin etc... be of use to a real estate professional or real estate investor? Any success stories or strategies that...
Nicholas Delgado
New investor from Fort Lauderdale, FL
Hello all,
Long time reader, first time poster. I am in public accounting working towards a CPA (1/4 tests completed). I have finally moved on a deal in Mobile, Al, which is an out of state investment for me being fr...
Mariano Gomes Kaffine'
Analysis of a flip to a lender
Hello BP community members,I am new to Real Estate investment and BP has been an enormous source of information and education. I am ready to make a move and working on my first flip deal package. I will be using flip ...
Christopher Blanco
Real Estate Agent
I started building a team to do a fix and flip strategy with a transition into BRRRR. I contacted the real estate agent whom I used to sell my MIL's house after my wife and I rehabbed it. She did a great job and the h...
Ron Hollingsworth
Propstream Skip Trace sucks
I do not recommend Propstream for Skip Tracing. They don't do it in house so some 3rd party vendor does it. The % of records that come back with actual numbers is very very low. So if you run a search for say 5000 ...
Andrew Bissada
Furnished or Unfurnished Bedrooms?
I will be doing a house hack, and plan on furnishing the living room since I will live there. But I am wondering if I should furnish the other bedrooms. Will I get more renters if the bedrooms are furnished or unfurni...
Bonnie Low
How much does landscaping affect an appraisal on a BRRR?
We're rehabbing a SFR in far northern CA (Shasta Lake City, Zone 9). It's a total gut rehab so everything about the property is new and very nice but solid middle class - nothing extravagant. We had to pull out every ...
Matt Conner
Hello from Bozeman, MT!
I am a real estate investor closing in on two decades of experience investing in residential units in California and Idaho and one commercial unit in my hometown of Bozeman, Montana. I have not been active in real es...