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I am buying a single family home in Oakland County Michigan as a FSBO. I don’t have a buyer’s agent representing me. The owner is presented by a family-member that is a broker.I did my own comparable market analysis...
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Would you ever consider doing a 15-year mortgage on a house hack? What are the pro and cons you see?
Logically I am thinking 30-year mortgage as I intend to sell the property within 4 years, not enough time to see a...
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Hello BP Friends I am in need of a CPA located in the Greenville, SC area. I have my business entity up and running, however I have had a difficult time finding a CPA which specializes, or even has a fair amount of ex...
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I read BP for several hours every day (broken up in pieces, but smartphones are a beautiful, terrible thing), and I regularly see people listing "freedom of my time" as one of their big motivations when it comes to RE...
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I love house hunting, even when I don’t need a house. Hunting for a vacation rental is even more fun. Browsing through Redfin and Zillow, I methodically tick off the top attributes that I know will make a vacation ren...
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I just finished the beginners guide and moving to a more house flip focused book. Between the two J Scott books (Estimating Rehab Costs and Book on Flipping Houses), can anyone recommend which is better to start with...
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Most of my life was spent living in apartments, this extended well into my adulthood.
Cool breezes and the sounds of nature have a way of helping you get comfortable and even fall asleep, but living on the first floo...
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Hello BP, thank you for reading my post! I am currently working on completing my RE prerequisite course for GA and plan to complete the exam by the end of May. I have an agent in my area that I have purchased a couple...
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Hey BP! so I think I found a good fixer upper for my first flip. as it is my first, how would you suggest i go about getting the best rehab estimate? should I reach out to a few contractors and ask them for a bid? sho...
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I am refinancing my home to get my ex-husbands name off and allow me to obtain HELOC to buy rental properties. Which would you go with? I come from a family that believes in paying less to the bank so pay more per mon...