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Hi BP Community,
My name is Karim, and I'm currently a college student in Boston. Real Estate investing has captured my interest, and I'm excited to start my journey in this field as soon as possible. I've already di...
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Hi
I understand that people advice higher Cash ROIs to evaluate a rental (investment) property so that you will have cashflow. However, I am wondering why is it not a good option to go for short-term loan so that...
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Can anyone help analyze this refi scenario?
I am looking at refinancing 2 SFH properties which currently have 15 year amort, 5 year balloon, 6.625% interest, with just over 2 years left on the balloons. I have 10 ...
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Hey Everyone/BiggerPockets!
I've been listening to the podcast obsessively over the past 2-3 weeks and decided after over a year of studying that I need to start connecting with the community.
Context about me - I'm...
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When I first started with rentals I had to do everything myself now I have doing it for a while and would like to hire some of it out, I know it's easy to call a plumber when you have a leak or stopped drain and it...
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Experienced developers (or underwriters) of large multi-units or commercial deals: What do you think are the most important factors when analyzing deals that are close to execution (i.e. past entitlement phase)? I'v...
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Hi BP Fam!
I'm starting to self manage my STR and had a few questions:
1) Should I have my own guest agreement aside from Airbnb/VRBO etc.... guest agreement? If yes, where can I find a template and how/when do I ha...
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I'm curious if anyone who owns a commercial office building has strategies to get additional income via building signage. I own an office building that is really well situated (high traffic area) and currently have a...
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Armed and dangerous with knowledge from weekend realestate siminar...looking for experience, advice and "costly education" points out there. Is this the only feasible route to utilize retirement savings?
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I’ve been interested in real estate for the past few years even though I am young (21) , I wasn’t to be come a investor and have no idea where to start , how to start or which niche to avoid , I’m just looking for adv...