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I am under contract on a townhouse that should rent for $1200 - $1300 a month. The kitchen is in fair condition (50 yr old, lower end cabinets, laminate counter tops and low end older appliances). I got a detailed est...
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I've underwritten around 30 deals so far, mostly in the Ohio market. I'd say that 85% of them have rents that are 10-15% under market. If the way to increase the selling value of a MFH is to increase NOI by increasi...
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Just thought I would provide an account of my journey since I started investing in US property market in 2011 and more recently Detroit. Perhaps this can provide some inspiration/feedback for any wannabe foreign inves...
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I'm one year into having a property manager take over one of our properties, it's mainly great because that income is now (almost) truly passive - probably requires less than 1 hr of time each month.However, my PM see...
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First-Time Home Buyer: The Complete Playbook for Avoiding Rookie Mistakes is available now!
@Mindy Jensen and @Scott Trench have been buying and selling houses for a collective thirty years. In First-Time Home Buye...