Okay BP, I first searched around for my question before asking but could not find any good clear answers to these questions:1) Are we supposed to use cap rates ONLY with commercial properties? Or can cap rates be us...

hi,I would like to hear what other property owners/managers think about laminate vs. Hardwood flooring.what I think is that Hardwood flooring has a much much longer lifetime, and it is not that much more expensive  (I...

I've found a 6 unit apt building for sell, asking is 159k, gross rent is 2610...Water and trash run 100 bucks a month combined on average...Some more some less.  The agent that brought me the deal is confident I can g...

I'm an optometrist, and I recently purchased a piece of land $326K. I put down about $77K. The loan is for 5 years with an inflated payment at the end of the term.
The initial goal was to build a clinic (instead of r...

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I'm a new investor in the metro DC area, based in northern virginia. My 'day job' is in marketing and communications, but when I'm not doing that, I'm focused on finding REI deals. Real estate is my passion a...

Will a mobile home, newly purchased from the factory put to use as a rental, that is not immediately converted to real property, qualify for the 2017 accelerated deprecation, since it's personal property ?  If the ans...

So I started reading one of the books from BiggerPockets which brought me to the site.   Like I'm sure most of us here I'm looking to get out of the rat race of working for a big corporation and getting my rentals to ...

I'm looking at starting a business in Property Management and would like feedback on what owners are looking for in a management company.  I have managed commercial real estate in Utah for the last eleven years and lo...

I have an 18,000 sq ft building in a vibrant downtown area that sits on a 1.85 acre lot with 110 parking spaces in front. It is an old concrete warehouse with 12 foot ceilings that I converted into office/retail suite...

Hey all, when you first go out and do a walkthrough of a property how do you determine what actually needs to be replaced versus what can be fixed or modified or even left alone to keep construction costs low enough...