Hi All, My goal is to purchase a multi family rental in 2018 and house hack it. I'm curious to know how much you all budgeted for reserves when you purchased your first deal? Would you take your 401k into consideratio...
Heyy. I'm trying to raise rent to fair market rent for one of my tenants. I have informed her through text and email. And heard no response. I texted again asking if she got my messages and if she had any questions. N...
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Hello, my name is Juan I have been studying realestate investing for about a year now, and have decided to pursue this as my lifes goal, I recently found out about the 203k fha loan, and I have decided to invest in my...
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Wondering if any of you out there have some sort of "formula" you use to estimate repairs/maintenance and vacancy reserve costs when evaluating a new property?
I have been sort of guessing on mine so far and doing 5% ...
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just got an email from williampaid. "We regret to inform you that after 5 years, WilliamPaid will be no longer processing rent payments.If you are an existing user of our service, we will stop processing new payments ...
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Good evening everyone,
I would love your advice. I'm still fairly new into investing, and I have not done any deal yet, but educating myself for the past 7 months reading, studios, videos etc..., and I listen to the...
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I've read several of the blog's with regard to "house hacking" including @Scott Trench's experience with his first property as well as @Darren Sager's podcast on his duplex ventures, and I've decided this is the path ...
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Hey BP,
My wife and I are looking at buying our first multi family soon, either a duplex or fourplex and I’m not sure when the right time to pull the trigger is. I am not sure how much I need to have...
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Hi there, I'm a 'newb' from Los Angeles, CA and I have a quick question for all of you out there. Here are the stats on a hypothetical Flip deal:Cost: $125K Sale Price: $220K Rehab total: $40K I'm planning on putting ...