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I have never bought a house. I want to house hack using a 5% conventional loan. The triplex I'm looking at is listed at 130,000. Its in pretty decent shape other than some cleanup and foundation issues.
The 3 sty ho...
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Hello Bigger Pockets.
New to the process and working to find my first property. I have found a property on the MLS and looked at it with my realtor. I estimated that my repair costs would be around 25k. I gave a lo...
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So I saw a post by @Stephen Dillard promoting his company(I'm pretty sure it was in an appropriate forum). I went to his website and to me, it screams 'scam' - it makes me very suspicious.
What is this kind of page ...
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I went out driving a couple days ago through several different neighborhoods near my area looking for potential deals. I noticed about 4 homes that had grass 2+ feet high with overgrown shrubs, etc.
One property had ...
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BP Community,First let me apologize in advance if I'm posting in the wrong forum. This is my first post so I thought I'd make it personally memorable by tying it to my current real estate challenge. As my question l...
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I have a rather odd situation going on and would like to some advice from others who have traveled this path before me. I had a home under contract at a certain price. I had a home inspection done in advance of consum...
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I've been researching creating an LLC for real estate investing. I've been watching some videos by Anderson Business Advisors in Youtube (specifically this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdSp5GXbiE4) where the...
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I have some how gotten by with renting to mostly individuals who earn 3Xs the monthly rent, but for roommate rental situations I have been requiring each individual to earn 3Xs the monthly rent. Is it asking too much ...
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Hi BP community -
I’m closing on my first multi-family at the end of the month. Its my third investment in the last year and I’m hooked in REI thanks to all of your success stories.
Anyway, Its an Alabama duplex a...
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I'm thinking of attending one of Rich Dad's Free Workshops in my area next week. It's a 2-hr workshop, & attendees receive a free cd entitled "Budgeting Your Money", which I'm really interested in hearing. The wri...