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Hi I hired a Manager/Contractor to replace the roof and other work...I wired him $7000 and have not heard from him for over 2 months now. I have his address and contact number, he does not answer my calls and I am ove...
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Hi Team,
Im a first time investor looking to buy rental property in Charlotte NC, and before investing have the below 3 questions on finding / choosing a contractor. Any help or responses in general are much apprecia...
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Hi Guys, I am a property investor from Melbourne (sort of), Victoria, Australia. I have properties in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne and I have recently started looking at the U.S market. I listen to a lot of audioboo...
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Yesterday, we closed on this 41-unit apartment deal and netted $627,643.32 in profit (just from the sale). We actually made MORE than that because we've made good cashflow from the apartment building during the time w...
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In a recent thread of mine, I posted about a rehab deal I had to wholesale. It was suggested that in my thread, I poured on the "sales pitch" too hard and as such, it was suggested that the lack of responses or people...
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I got out of the stock market in 2009 after taking a $300k loss. Ironically, I had made about the same amount by actually predicting the crash and shorting the market at the top. I thought I could predict the upturn a...
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There was another thread on the site in the making deals forum which contained a lot of great discussion, but which became way too contentious, so we closed it.
I wanted to start another discussion about investing in...
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Hey :)
so the basic rule for a good REI is most of the time
100% finance w/ a cashflow of 100$ per unit
but what is wrong w/ buyin RE which is breakeven cashflow wise?
simple example:
-no downpayment
-100k credit a...
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Hi everyone, It's Friday night and I all my adrenaline is zapped. I am about to lose twenty thousand dollars b/c my mortgage contingency expired and my two private money lenders flipped the script on their terms at th...
If you were to restart your life at 17 already knowing you want to get into real estate investing, would you go to college with a full-ride or would you get started investing without wasting any time, and why?