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Hey everyone, my names Josh and live in the Tampa Bay Area. I am a firefighter/paramedic interested in building a tiny cottage community. I am new to real estate investing and would love to hear everyone’s thoughts an...
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Hello,
I am upstate NY amateur investor in quality single family homes.
I would like to buy a property which has an existing section 8 family tenants, for the only reason that I own and rent the adjacent property t...
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Hi BP Community,This is my first post here :).My husband and I are rookie investors, and we are trying to buy our first investment property since last April. Unfortunately, we keep getting outbid by cash offers withou...
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I recently bought my second house hack in October 2022. My roommates/tenants are my mother (recently divorced), my sister (over night nurse, who spends most days at her boyfriends), and a coworker I have known for yea...
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Hey there BP Nation,I have scoured the forums for an answer to this question, and I have left more confused than when I started.How does DTI ratio work when you own some homes under your name and some in an LLC?My sit...
Hello all! Been reading these forums and the rest of the BP site for awhile now and believe I have come up with a strategy for investing in real estate in the very near future. I hope to get a critique of the followin...
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Hello BP! I am new and hope I am posting this in the correct area. I found a 7 unit hip pocket deal. It is in a really great area but needs work. Price is 275k and units will rent for $1000 with some TLC. So the cash ...
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I have a prospective tenant that does not meet the criteria of 2x monthly income and a credit score of 650+. He said times were hard and he was out of work but has money saved. He offered to pay a years worth of rent ...
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Hey everyone hope you guys are having a happy Thursday!So I am 19 looking to get into real estate and become a realtor and in the future a realtor turned investor but of course that is down the road. As I am looking t...
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i like the concept of buying a mobile home in cash, fixing it up a little, then structuring the payment terms so that the home ROIs 80+% a year for 3-4 years. But is this a feasible scenario?
I don't know anything ab...