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BP Community,I love the fact that everyone here on BP knows that it's not about just making more money/cashflow/appreciation, but saving/cutting costs/increasing efficiencies really help your bottom line. It also help...
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My goal is to buy a house hack when I move next year back to my hometown after finishing dental school. I want to start my real estate investing journey by house hacking. I did two calculations for a 4-plex and a dupl...
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Hello,I own a owner occupied three family homeand contemplating on whether to sell or hold due to a recent job change out of state. This was my first real estate investment that I made a little over two years ago.Its ...
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I have a 4 bedroom house for rent and its 1 level all tile. Am I crazy to let someone with 6 pets (4 are cats) rent this house? Would the house still smell from the cats even if there is no carpet???
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So I would like to get ideas and thoughts here who has bought property with tenants already in there? Pros? Cons? Things to keep an eye out for? Regrets? Same question for people who have bought properties without ten...
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I have been on a recent rant lately about real estate books. As we all know there are many good ones out there and many bad ones. What most of them tell us is how to buys and sell and get super rich or whatever. If th...
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We have a few condos in a complex that are older style units (20-30 years old), the rent varies in the complex we see some people remodeling the entire inside of 2b2b and getting $1600-1800 in rent while others that h...
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Hi,
I'm renting a house and I accepted verbally a couple that is moving from out of state. They won't be able to sign the lease until they come back from out of state next wednesday, in the mean time I'm stil...
I'm planning on purchasing second SFH property and renting how the rooms instead of the whole property. I'm 26 Y.O. , me and my wife live downstairs and the tenants live upstairs. Their rent actually covering my mortg...
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I'm new to the southeast CT and am looking to purchase multifamily properties in New London area. I'm trying to get a sense of (1) vacancy rates and (2) what I can expect as a tenant base. For example, I looked at th...