Ray Hurteau
Help needed with COMPLEX deal involving 3+ parties (lease option & private money)
Hello BP Forum... My partner and I have a potential deal and it's not straightforward... we've never done a lease option, but we're not about to let a little complexity discourage us from this deal.
What will discour...
Account Closed
Seller Fiancing as a retirement strategy
Quite often I hear people talk of seller financing as more of a last ditch resort when disposing of property that one might not be able to sell any other way. I'm sure that many of you have come across these kind of ...
Michael Swan
What is your Return on Equity?
Hi all,Has anyone here ran a calculation of your return on equity? To do so, you take the current cash flow and you divide that by equity you have in your RE. So your personal home has little to no ROE. Right? It i...
Hector Serna
Offer accepted… and there’s a new dilemma
Hey guys,If any of yall have come across my previous post you’ll find that I recently had an offer accepted for a short sale in Cicero, IL. The numbers are as follows.1959 Build Single family home: 3 bed (possible 4),...
Matthew N.
Question about lease option income
Hi all! I'm enjoying all the great information on BP! I was hoping that some of you can help me out with a question. My partner and I are interested in doing some sandwich lease options. We are trying to get all th...
Michael Plaks
End-of-Year tax planning: Roth conversion 101
I just finished EOY tax planning sessions with my clients, and Roth conversion was one of the topics. It reminded me how confused most investors are about Roth and prompted me to write this long post. Since Roth-relat...
Adam Smith
Upside down in rental, what to do?
My Brother-In-Law bought a condo in Sacramento about 6 years ago when the home prices there were still very high. He initially had a good investment going for him, but now things have radically changed.
He owes $105...
Erik Bollinger
What lessons should I learn from this failed deal?
I'm brand new to real estate investing. With my first deal I tried to hit a home run and I ended up striking out. In order to make the most from this failure I would like feedback on what I did wrong, and if my conclu...
Jeff Greenberg
Cost Segregation Study
Has anyone done a cost segregation study, and what are the pros and cons? Has anyone used Engineered Tax Services for this study? It all looks good on paper, but I wanted to see if anyone has some real world experie...
Kristen L Garner
Housing Price Movement in 2023
Where do you invest? And where do you see that region's housing prices going in 2023?
Below is some research I have done -
The following are firms that are predicting that US home prices will fall in 2023:
Gol...