James Rodgers
House flipping at a healthy peak?
This WSJ articles says the amount of houses being flipped is back to the level it was in 2006, but shouldn't come with a great amount of concern. Also, the #1 market for houses flipped in the last quarter was Birmingh...
Danny Webber
The Feds Plans- TGA- Treasury General Acct
This is the Treasury General Acct. TGAI am predicting that the Federal Gov't is going to dump literally tons of cash into the market prior to the election to make things look good. From an avg of 400 Billion or so to ...
Michael King
Investing in Illinois pitfalls?
I have a colleague at work who owns 4 rental properties, I know at least 2 of them are located in Illinois. Illinois being the glamorous, tax happy state that it is...I have some questions. Well one mainly. What is th...
Edward Ruan
Bay Area Investing Metrics & Locations
So I've been looking at properties all around the Bay Area for a while, and it seems pretty difficult to hit the 1% rule anywhere I would want to actually live for a house hack. The closest option I'm seeing is maybe ...
John Chapman
Has anyone else noticed rents starting to diverge from property values?
I'm in Dallas and I've started to notice (or at least it appears to me) that housing prices are starting to increase (or have increased) faster than rents. For the third, time this week I've looked at houses that ...
David Dachtera
Forbearance? Foreclosures? Evictions?
As the scheduled expiration of some programs approaches, there will be much speculation about, "What next?"Some of what I'm already hearing ...Forbearance / ForeclosuresSome are saying that these could present opportu...
Drew Steusloff
Market Resaerch - Data Gathering
Hi BP,I wanted to reach out to the community for input on how they analyze potential markets and what critical data points should be looked at before considering to invest in an area. So far I have used Census.Gov to ...
Cynthia Hartley
Added value of a basement apartment in DC
Hi DC BPers,I purchased a SFH in Deanwood with the intent of converting the basement into a legally permitted, separately metered accessory apartment. However, I cannot seem to find other houses sold in the neighborho...
Jeff Meachen
Lender May Have Jumped On Our Deal
We are not 100% sure on this speculation but are thinking one of our potential lenders jumped on our good deal. This week we made an offer on our first investment property. It is a foreclosure and has been on the ma...
Brendon K.
Ann Arbor looks pretty dead. How's the market out there?
Not a lot of activity on these forums. I'll be moving out to the Dexter area in a few weeks looking for some single family flips. It feels like there might not be a lot of wholesaling activity going on there--?