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First time poster and long term investor!My LLC (small partnership) has been renting a 8 unit property in Rochester NY for the last year. We have been self managing, with OK results, as I am located out of state and ...
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For beach properties that are within a few blocks of the beach, how often are you having to repaint the exterior of your house? I’m trying to have some idea to calculate for reserve capex needs. Thanks for any feedback.
As we all know we live in this society where debt is encouraged and rewarded than people paying down things all at once. We all know the incentives to keep this ponzi scheme, of the debt bloated fiat system that is no...
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We closed on our first flip Friday February 28th. Here are some specifics on it. I will chime on here and give updates as things progress.
Where: Houston, TX
Where did we find the property: Wholesaler
Details: 4 ...
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We're trying to figure out rehab costs to add square footage. Anyone have a good rule on thumb? We need to add 1000sf. (Additional bathroom, bedroom and expand the kitchen/dinning), Basically "blow out" the back...
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How do you keep occupied in between deals?I purchased my first buy and hold and got a tenant in place a few weeks ago. I am now in the process of the cash out refi process and ready to go after the next one.Unfortunat...
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First timer hereMy question is where dose one go from here? The situation is I have my primary home and a nice rental home with great tenants and I’m going to buy a neighbor’s home near my primary home for fair price....
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Hello everyone and thank you in advance for all your answers. This site has been very helpful.I am planning to buy my first investment property out-of-state. I am currently looking at single-family homes in the Dallas...
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Hi there,I'm new to Bigger Pockets. I'm a Realtor in the NW Louisiana market place and just getting started in investing. Earlier this year, I just purchased my first rental (a duplex) and been running it off a spread...
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Hello all,
I’ve been listening to the podcasts, read a few books and browsing the forumns, and studying the areas I’d like to find properties. I’m going to stay local to what I know and do the buy and hold with possi...