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Hey BP Forum! When you purchase a buy and hold property do you believe in making only necessary repairs or do you go in and gut the place even if it doesn’t help your ROI? I’ve been going back and forth on thi...
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Does real estate investing ever seem like a giant pyramid scheme to anyone else? The way loans, lending, payments, and everything works almost seems like a pyramid scheme. Throw in syndications and private money and y...
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This deal. I need an inspection of a 6 family unity each Unit being 1600 sq Ft. How much time should that take. My inspector is stating that they 5- 6 hours. The seller is saying that 3 hours should be enough. I ...
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Surely someone else has done this...
I don't have / want an actual fax machine... I want everything to be in an electronic format. Ideally I would be able to send Word files, or PDF files, and faxes that get sent to...
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My grandma lives with me (and my younger brother) in Gainesville, FL. I am a full-time college student and working sometimes 40+ hours a week. We are currently renting a 3/2 home for ~$1300/mo. She fully owns a home ...
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I saw an apartment building down in Tampa that has 9 units it’s worth $550,000 and it has a cap rate of 11.79% which seems pretty high to me and it looks like a good investment. I’m new to this I don’t know much. I k...
It seems that rentals are only worth it when you can do the domino effect to get a bunch of houses and be on the line for a bunch of debt. I have a full time job, and can get a house for 50k and get about 9000 in rent...
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Hi guys,
I'm pretty new to the bigger pockets community, but after listening to the bigger pockets podcasts I figured I'd make a forum post to see what the bigger pockets community thinks about my situation. I am cur...
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Hello All! The wife and I are pretty set on moving into real estate investing. I have always been obsessed with real estate and I think it is time for a change/build some real wealth. I have been listening to the Bigg...
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The National Association of Realtors Board recently voted to ban pocket listings by 5/1/2020 or sooner(timing depends on local boards/MLS). Meaning all Realtor listed properties will have to go in the MLS within 1 bi...