So I have to put $1,500,000 in a rental somewhere. The option (for whatever reason) is either LA (appreciation) or Baltimore (cash flow).Sure, investors never can agree to disagree on which is best, but the numbers se...
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I have been thinking through housing, affordability, and the effect on what until the last few years have been dead markets. Any home with a decent commute to a decent market is not affordable.
Over the last few yea...
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Hello All! This is my first post although I've been an avid bigger pockets reader for a while now! So hello!I've been around real estate since before I was born, it's all my parents talked about around our house. They...
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I bought my first home in August 2020 and took out a loan of $450,000 with a 2.5% interest rate over a fixed 30-year period. Not surprisingly, most of my monthly payments are going towards interest with the 30-year fi...
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I bought my first home in August 2020 and took out a loan of $450,000 with a 2.5% interest rate over a fixed 30-year period. Not surprisingly, most of my monthly payments are going towards interest with the 30-year fi...
Hello!My Family business has been managing commercial property (industrial and multifamily) totaling 200+ units for many years with just Quickbooks and spreadsheets. Things run smoothly but it requires practice to alw...
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Cliff's Notes Below!We started our first rental this year... we turned our former primary residence into a rental and I had the help of a family member to do all of the paperwork. My help had over 20 years of prope...
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Does anyone have any general requirements for when to expand?For example how much money should you keep on hand per rental property in order to be comfortable to handle repairs?What should your overall debt to cash ra...
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I have been striking out on my offers in other markets that I have been focused on, so now am expanding my research to include a third area, Des Moines, IA, in an effort to increase my deal flow across the 3 markets. ...
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Hi BP,Last week, one of our best tenants (a jewelry store) called and asked if we have a bigger space they could move to. They kind of mentioned about this in the past but nothing materialized (because we offered the...