Ingrid J.
How do YOU do break-even for buy-and-holds?
Hey all the way from Norway! I've spent the past two weeks finalizing the business plan for my buy-and-hold real estate company and have ran into a wall.The break-even-analysis looks very scewed and I can't figure out...
Joseph ODonovan
According to Harvard, there's a housing shortage. Your thoughts?
https://www.housingwire.com/articles/49458-harvard-theres-a-housing-shortage-and-its-eroding-affordability
Preetinder Singh
KW vs Coldwell Banker
Hi everybody my name is Preet and I am from West Hartford Connecticut. I am interested in acquiring my real estate license and starting my classes to get it next month. The only thing that I need to know or while I ta...
Brian Washburn
To Carpet or Not to Carpet. That is the Question.
I just bought my first rental in Omaha, NE. It's a 3BR 1BA with 1900sqft. I'm putting about $6k into renovations, including rebuilding the bathroom from scratch and new kitchen vinyl floors. The house has about 1000s...
Sean Ruggiero
Todays episode, "Become the Bank" with Whole Life Insurance?
Chris kind of glossed over this since it was his intermediary between flips and flops, but does anyone have any thoughts here?
I love Bigger Pockets so much but I hate how I always want ten plus hour episodes and the...
Greta Andrews
Cash Value Life Insurance VS Self Directed IRA
Cash Value Life Insurance VS Self Directed IRA
I know the two aren't usually talked about in the same breathe. Each would be compared to other products in the same wheelhouse. And they would be introduced by very...
Jacquelyn First
Should my tenant buy their own fridge?
I’m 26 and have very little life, let alone real estate experience but I was able to buy my first single family home with my dad going in 25% in Southern California’s high desert.My dad owns one other home up there an...
Brian Morris
How to Strip paint from a deck
How do you strip thick paint off a deck? I put a little paint stripper on a patch, but it just gummies up the top layer slightly. Belt sander did a little better, but I would never finish. Is there a technique or p...
Andrew Carter
"Below Value" Appraisals, why is the buyer required to pay?
Hello, I'm brand new to BP but looking to learn quickly...which will mean asking lots of (but hopefully not to many "dumb") questions. This may be a question with an obvious answer, but I'm curious, when a property ap...
Peter Walther
Title Insurance: Automated underwriting
I've previously mentioned that several title insurance companies are trying to move to automated underwriting. Based on my experience I don't know how you write a program that as stated in the article, identify(ies) ...