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Hello Everyone!I need opinions. This is my second purchase of real estate (not including my primary residence), and the first was several years ago and was a vacation rental property, which was sold after a couple of...
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I found BP about two months ago and listened to BiggerPockets Podcast 247: How to Buy Your First (or Next) Property by the End of the Year [The 90-Day Challenge!] with @Brandon Turner and thought there was no way I co...
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A quick question for working agents. I am currently a remodeling contractor in California. I am thinking about starting a handyman division of my company to handle smaller projects. As an agent, would a honest, reliab...
Hello all! We bought a short sale home for 180K that we are looking to rent in Westmont, IL about 2 weeks ago. Rent will be $1,800/month. I made the mistake of showing the house before all repairs/painting were made. ...
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If it does matter, the apartment is located in Minnesota, Minneapolis/Saint Louis Park. My girlfriend and I moved into an apartment on May 1, 2017 (little over a month ago). It was a pretty bad experience right out ...
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I am curious, is there was a way to find out how often properties in a certain area were being rented on Airbnb or VRBO? I want to figure out if it makes more sense to turn a property in the Tampa Bay area into a vaca...
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I'm sure there are a few posts for this floating around, but I wanted to bring it up again and open up some ideas.
How do YOU get the banks to accept your offer, either short sale or REO?
My first (and only, to da...
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Investment Info:
Single-family residence fix & flip investment in Omaha.
Purchase price: $163,000
Cash invested: $14,000
Sale price: $205,000
This was an off-market deal brought to us by a br...
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Hi everyone!I just joined the forums and I am excited to be a part of this community. First, a little about myself:I am currently a Law Student at the Chicago-Kent College of Law due to graduate in May 2017 with an un...
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Hello everyone!
I am looking to buy my first STR/airbnb property in the Sonora to Dodge ridge ski resort area along highway 108. Airdna has been showing ~ 70-80% occupancy in the area given its proximity to the ski...