Jason Mak
What are you doing in 2015? In particular in So Cal?
Investor from Southern California here and interested in what other BP'ers, particularly those in Southern California are gearing up to accomplish in 2015. Southern California has been such a ridiculous seller's mark...
Sean Kollee
30 day basement development - easier said than done
To make a sale in a tough market we had to include the basement development, and we had 30 days to do it. We prepared a tight schedule and stuck to it to meet our objective of having the basement done in time for the...
Jonathan Anderson
How tenants pay rent
Hello bp family I was just wondering what is the best way to collect rent from tenants?
Nate Astrup
PropTech Ecosystem - Tech moves slower in RE?
The US RE housing marketplace alone is a massive pool of money, some few trillion dollars! We can all google it. Which means someone is trying to build the next unicorn tech companies that focus on this market. Solvin...
Ellis Hammond
Should I adhere to the 1% rule in a low cap rate market???
In a market like southern California where the cap rates are for the most part under 5% it has been very difficult for me to find any type of MF property that meets the 1% rule (rents being at least 1% of purchase pri...
Nick Romano
Hold or Sell in a hot market with high appreciation??
Hola BP Community-I've been toying with the idea of selling my condo in Boston for a while now but I can't seem to come to a solution. I bought the condo in 2013 for $525k and it's now worth about $625k. Its in one ...
Carl Sandquist
Looking to invest in an apartment building
Hello, i live in Viila Park Illinois and looking to invest in an apartment building. I've done some research regarding this and notice a lot of "new" terms associated with apartments - rent roll, cap rate, net operati...
Jorge Abreu
Seven-Step System for Evaluating a Market
Step 1 Population Growth
Use city-data.com to research the city’s population
Goal: Since the year 2000, has the city’s population gone up at least 20% (Ex: Phoenix, Orlando, Las Vegas, Columbus Ohio)
Step 2 Incom...
Emily Burnett
Could tiny homes take over the mobile home market in lucrative ROI project returns?
Tiny home's are one of the most over looked investment opportunities in today's real estate industry, but surprisingly on the rise for individual investors such as personal home buyers or those looking to rent out air...
Derek Petersen
A Paradigm Shift and 5 Reasons to Love Passive Investing
A Paradigm Shift and 5 Reasons to Love Passive Investing
When it all Changed
If you asked a 30-year old me what my plan was I’m pretty sure I would have responded that I wanted to “move up the chain” at work, ma...