Nicholas Chagnon
Diversifying with Real Estate and Stock Portfolio
I am under contract on my first investment property (owner occupied single family with ADU rental). I am planning to save for a year and try to buy another property.Do you all only invest in real estate (stick to what...
Loren Thomas
To Upgrade, To Sell, To Rent, To Leverage Current Home?
Apologies if this is the wrong forum, seems like a general question to me?We have a mortgage on our current house. After next summer, we are going to refinance. At that time, we will have around 100K in equity. I'd li...
Colby Zeller
FHA Loan details and questions
Now that I have found the market I want to invest in and also the property type I settled on looking for, I am intrigued to learn more about the type of loan I need to qualify for. I want to purchase a small multi-fam...
Stephen E.
Interesting Screening Situation
Some of the posts I find most interesting on BP are screening questions. One of the reasons they are interesting is that the landlord posting the question is often too close to the issue and does not see problems whil...
Andrew Gallegos
NOOB on info and guru overload
All the guru advertising everywhere is getting out of hand. All the advertising for guru mentoring, marketing, flippers and everything guru is everywhere. As a novice and just getting into the business I've been doing...
Ralphie Martinez
Looking for advice on either selling or keeping to rent home
Hello all,I currently own a house ($195k on the loan) that's located in the Bay Area (Martinez, CA). My wife and I have 3 small children and are looking to uproot and leave the state. The house we own was my grandpare...
Jacob Chaney
Is all multifamily income treated equal in appraisals? Wash, DC
I run a student housing program in Washington, D.C. that sees me receiving anywhere from 50% - 100% more than normal market rents. I have contracts in place with large universities and colleges along with a track rec...
Jacob Tomko
Buying out of state, buy and hold in Fort Worth
Hi All, I'm going in with two other individuals for buy and hold properties and we have whittled down the possible areas to Western Washington & San Antonio but are still interested in Forth Worth, TX. We all curr...
Matt Robinson
The Role of Fear in Real Estate Investing – Friend or Foe?
Some of today’s most prominent thought leaders espouse the idea that fear is the only thing keeping you from success. While that may be true in many people’s lives, fear oftentimes gets an undeserved bad rap. Fear is...
James Park
Investing in Texas vs georgia
Is Texas going to be the next california real estate market in the next decade? There seems to so many positive outloOk for texas. As an investor , compare and contrast the real estate market in Atlanta metro vs Austi...