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Hi everyone,I own one rental property and I am thinking down the road of what I'd like to do. I'm going to buy one more property in the Chicago area using an FHA loan and then I want to move on to bigger things. I rea...
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Hi everyone. My name is Zanaida Wakatama I am mother and wife in the earliest phase of real estate investing- studying, establishing relationships and looking to identify my niche. I have a background in Accounting an...
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I bought my first deal of 2009 back in March. I've bought 9 since then, but here are the details and a few things I learned on the first one.
HUD foreclosure--3-2 singlewide mobile home on nearly 4 acres.
The Good:...
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How do some of these sites screen their sponsors and the legitimacy of their investment return claims? For example, I have been keeping track of some of these home rehab flips being financed on sites like iFunding and...
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Hi everyone,I’m living in Portland, Oregon where there are lots of restrictions on STRs and buying stand alone properties for STR purposes. I’ve been looking at neighboring cities in Washington that are more STR frien...
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Good morning all,thank you in advance for your input. I am looking to do my first deal and have decided to go the route of building a duplex. I am faced with a decision of paying 50k> to purchase a lot in a regulat...
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With all what is going on in the online business and e-commerce. There is a huge move in the product business to online sales. That will create a huge loss of business for retailers and offices spaces are getting empt...
Just wanted to test my luck to see if there are any active BPers who are familiar with commercial development. I have a 1.09 acre parcel zoned for commercial and am looking to develop a small 4-5k square foot restaura...
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NC at it's finest.
Sanford is a lovely little town situated in the heart of NC, supporting a population of just under 31,000 and employing about 13.3k people (-0.55% year over year).
Sanford's annual population gr...
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Hi all. I am analyzing a deal that is outside my comfort zone and I am very much in my head and overthinking it. I am hoping for insight from more experienced investors.I currently invest in a class C (probably C-) ar...