Jon Khalil
Aspiring Real Estate Investor in SoCal
Hello BP!
My name is Jon Khalil, and I am a 21 year old aspiring real estate investor based in the Orange County area.
I am new to the community here and am looking to create meaningful, and long lasting relationship...
Jimmy L.
New Landlord - Qs on Tenant Lease Strategies
Hi Everyone,
New to the community and glad a resource like this exists. My wife and I recently purchased our first property in Oakland, CA by the MacArthur BART train station if anyone is familiar. It's a duplex so w...
Jennifer D.
Scared to begin Investing
Hi Everyone, I've been doing my research and the more I do the more I think this is an impossible task to choose the RIGHT investment. I'm scared that I'll lose all my savings by just starting. How did you get over th...
Pearl Cook
[Calc Review] Help me analyze this deal
Hello experienced investors. I've been going back and forth on this duplex trying to make sense of all the numbers and am at a crossroads and would really like some help analyzing this purchase.I ran the numbers as if...
Derek Clark
Push For More Cash Flow or Get a Great Tenant in Place?
I have a potential tenant interested in leasing a commercial spot that I am currently under contract on. I have met them and can tell based off there lease history and our conversation it would be a great tenant and m...
Tony Moreno
Looking to buy 1-4 unit in San Diego or invest out of state
Hello BP,I am currently living in San Diego with my parents and will be graduating from college in 2018. My parents have some extra money and want to use it to help me put a down payment on a house or apartment. It wo...
Jim Costa
How to raise rents on new purchase when they are 60% of CMR?
I am in the process of buying 3 duplexes that are undervalued because of rents. They are renting for $800-850. Market rents for this size in this neighborhood. should be 1100-1200. Once you purchase how do you rais...
Geremy Rosenberg
Should I back out of deal after inspection? Day 7 of 10 due diligence
Hi Everyone, I am an OOS first time investor and got a SMF built in 1920 (2 units, 1bd/1ba and 3bd/2ba) under contract at 20K below purchase price (@190K) with both units currently rented ($850 and $1200). I have had...
Bruce Woodruff
Anyone adjusting rates for next year?
I had already been tweaking rates for next year, but I got an email from VRBO today urging me to follow the link and do just that. Not surprised at all when their suggestion was to lower my rates.....As a businessman...
Chris Seveney
Bank Cut Reserves to 0.
While I am not surprised rates were cut to zero - bank reserves were also cut to zero as well. For those that are not familiar with lending, a major component to the crisis a decade ago was banks had to liquidate asse...