Melissa U.
1st investment $64k cash; $13 cashflow; 0.24% cash on cash ROI???
Basically want to know if we should buy high down payment, low cashflow property in a familiar market vs buying low down payment, higher cashflow in an unfamiliar marketNew to investing, looking to buy condo in desira...
Megan Dettenmaier
Contractor has tools stolen...my job to replace?
New investor here - my contractor informed me yesterday that my house he's rehabbing was vandalized. They took many tools that totals approx. 10K. He's asking me to contact my insurance to make a claim, however this w...
Sean O'Brien
Starting Out - Organization & Legal
Hello BP, this is my first time posting. I'm 29, live in Minneapolis with my young family in a SFR we bought in 2013, and am interested in long-term buy and hold investing. I am thinking of starting at with 4-plexes, ...
Joshua Bailey
Create an individual LLC per investment property?
Heard very mixed things about this topic. Thinking this is the way to go for easy accounting purposes. The idea I've seen and heard is that you create an individual LLC per investment property you own for a couple imp...
Joe Kim
Rental Arbitrage -how to do airbnb without BUYING
Lots of people have asked me how to start doing a "Rental Arbitrage" in STR (short term rentals - Airbnb is most popular but VRBO is another way).Rental arbitrage is you as the investor rents a home and becomes the te...
Justin Jarboe
LEASE ADDENDUMS? What extras do you add to your lease
What are your favorite add ons to add to your lease? Do you have an addendum to your standard residential lease? Examples: Smoking is prohibited in the unit. LANDLORD permits the use of parking space #XXXX t...
Reid Simonton
Lender won't allow transfer of ownership to LLC
Hi all,
This is my first post on BP - I looked around for similar questions/answers and couldn't find a good match so I figured I'd go ahead and post; hopefully this is the correct forum for my question. First, a li...
Caplan Abbey
Small Investors Lose Major Deal because Of Math Problem
Amazing how many deals get lost because of poor training, education, and simple Math . Most investors go into a deal worrying about the price and cap rate. Lets share an example here: These deal may still be available...
Jason Walkowicz
Subject to deal 10 properties
I have a possible 10 property deal that the seller is willing to do subject to existing financing. The primary issue is even though there is positive cash flow on the 10 properties the existing debt on the portfolio ...
Ben Theriault
Investing in a college town. Why not?
Hi all!I'm trying to get into real estate and all of the resources I've been reading/listening to have said some of their best advice was learning the market. I was looking in areas where property was reasonably affor...