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I've been flagged for "mocking", when someone asked about a course that they were CONSIDERING buying, I told them I thought it was a waste of money. Another poster on that thread criticized me as they had purchased th...
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Hello everyone,
For a bit of context, new investor here. I have been doing all the research (podcasts, YouTube, books etc) the past 6 months. I am going to sell my primary residence and net over 100 thousand. I h...
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Hello, BP family! I am new to posting on this forum however I've had the opportunity to read a lot of useful advice on here. I figured I give it a try for some sound advice.
I am looking at my first deal, naturally,...
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Hi BP Community!We are getting set to close our biggest CRE investment here in about two weeks and since it is a hybrid of creative financing and an SBA 504 loan, we wanted to share some lessons learned since we have ...
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Hello all! My name is Ed and I live in Voorhees, NJ, about 15-20 minutes outside of Philadelphia, PA.I graduated from Rutgers Univ. College of Engineering nearly 20 years ago (sheesh) and have navigated a pretty secur...
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Hi All,
Looking for some advice from the BP community!
Background on our journey - It's been 5yrs since we started our real estate journey in NYC. We purchased our first multi property at the end of Dec-17 and adde...
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I was able to track down few properties purchased by bank at wholesale. From my experience few weeks later these properties will pop up on the MLS with around 17% mark up from the bank purchase price. I guess the 17...
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I'm looking into acquiring a portfolio of single family (or potentially small multi-family) rental properties and I was looking for advice on which postcodes to focus on, and which ones to avoid. Any advice would be m...
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Beds: 3, Bath: 1, SqFt: 1318, Built: 1957
I was sent this today by an investor. Is this a deal? How do I break this down to the basics?
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Are we still singing the same old song? "Prices won't come down!" I hope not, remember folks there is a lag between rate increases and falling equity prices. We are still running on comps from late 21 / early 22. If y...