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Hi,I am on the road to investing in my first multi-family property. I am going to use the house-hacking route and purchase with an FHA loan and live in one of the units. My questions are:1. Can I purchase the property...
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Hey all! Quick synopsis of my background; contractor for ten years as well as six years of estimating multi-million dollar construction projects. In addition to this, I have been investing in residential properties ...
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Hello,I am new to direct mailers. I sent out a list of 1000 yellow letters about a month ago and I am preparing to send another list soon, however I am not entirely sure about some modifications to the list. I have re...
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All right, I can't take it anymore with these cable companies... Mine is Comcast. We have Internet and Cable (little bit above basic), so my three kids can watch some stuff (5, 12 & 14).
They just jumped my bill...
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I have a four bedroom 2 1/2 bath almost 3000 square-foot house in a very desirable area of San Antonio. I talked with a short term rental manager that told me the occupancy rate was between 50 and 55%. Is that normal?...
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Got an update from the city on the proposed Residential Infill Program including some updates and some links that I wanted to pass on:What is this project about?Residential Infill Project is updating Portland’s single...
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HELP! My wife and I are trying to break in to the real estate game and we have local investors, we have liquid cash we could use, and we also own a lot in a wooded area with deeded access to a large lake in Wisconsin ...
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I live in Florida, and am widowed. We had owned 4+ single family homes, which are rented out. I used the money from the life insurance policy to pay off the rentals. I have set up a trust and have an umbrella policy ...
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I recently started up my first STR and went with the Schlage Encode smart lock based on recommendations on here and the Channel Manager compatibility for auto assigning codes. Thus far, 2 out of 6 guests have had issu...
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Looking for a good short term rental training program or reading material to better my knowledge in that area of real estate. Any tips or advice if I wanted to get started doing STR?