John D.
Irrationality of HML rates -- one size fits most?
By way of background, I've bought 8 SFRs in the last 18 months, 4 with conventional loans and the other 4 in cash. These properties are worth approx. $2.5mil, and I owe less then $700k on the mortgages, so net...
Rich Weese
Have you ever seen money oozing from everywhere?
If not, then you probably have not visited Dubai. Wifey and I returned a week ago from a land tour and cruise in the Arabian Sea. We visited several locations in Oman and two of the seven emirates in the united Arab e...
Mariah Jeffery
Considering first flip
I have several properties that I bought to hold, possibly until death. Several of those were fixers, but I've never attempted a flip before. (When I say "I", I mean my team, which consists of my retired father and law...
Stephen Foltin
Should I Back Out of New Build Because of Corona ?????
Hey all,
Hope everyone is staying safe out there. Well, my current situation is I own a condo with my fiancé (wedding pushed back to next year), and in January we decided to purchase a new build Townhouse in South ...
Josh Jack
Idaho--Looking for Best Town to Live & Work w/ Young Family
Hi there! I'm from Colorado. My wife & I are headed to Idaho in August. We are going to make our trip part business, part vacation. What areas are great for work/life as a young family, we will potentially move th...
Nancy Curran
Dilemma: Should I let commercial tenant expand?
6 unit, 1 commercial space, 5 apartments. 3 units in front, 3 in back. The commercial space is rented to a restaurant on the first floor. Owner of restaurant wants to break through to the apartment in the back of his ...
Steve Theobald
Buyer Frenzy! Don't get burned.
I wanted to share this with people outside of Utah too, so I posted in the general forum. But it was mainly written for those of us in Utah.https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/311/topics/67...Frenzy! ...
Daniel Levine
Turn Key Property Management
I recently learned of an investor that was buying rental properties in out of state areas using a turn-key property management company. He never saw the house other then the pictures and the property management compan...
Coco Poyet
Inflated Sale Price on Reno Loan
Hi BP community - My husband and I received the latest loan estimate for a house that has a purchase price of $261k and total reno of $26k or $287k total. The lender is considering that the total due to the seller is ...
Bob Floss II
1 in 10 City of Chicago Properties Have Delinquent Taxes
https://chicagocitywire.com/st...More than 163,000 Cook County property taxpayers didn’t pay their
bills this year, according to an analysis of Cook County Treasurer
records by Chicago City Wire. That’s about 9 pe...