Steve K.
Is Creative Financing Becoming the New Subprime Lending?
Rising interest rates have hurt everyone’s buying power (except cash buyers obviously), and inventory is locked up because nobody wants to move and give up their historically-low interest rate. Word on the street is ...
Zach Shrader
How does Property Management work??
Hey BP, I was just wondering how property management worked. Say I bought a 4 unit or whatever it may be. Can somebody give me the basics? I see people saying something like 10% of the income on the property? O...
Daniel Walker
Advice appreciated! - Negative cashflow but positive equity?
Hi Folks,I am new to buying real estate for investment purposes, but have held a rental in which I used to live since 2014. With equity I've extracted from the first house I am looking at a 2-bed town house which has ...
Syed Naqvi
Best cities to buy multifamily building for buy-and-hold purpose.
I am planning to buy a multifamily building/complex of around 4 to 25 units with in next few months. So far I have a few Single family and townhouses and have a good experience of managing them. Any advice on BEST CIT...
Joe T.
Screwed by lender, any recourse? Out $2200
So my lender did a pre approval on me about 4 times and I confirmed with them several times that I would be able to get a loan on a non-owner occupied duplex. Fast forward to 2 weeks before closing (yesterday), my len...
Julie Kern
First Deal: SFR or Student Rental?? - Brainstorming
We have a contract on our first deal as of today (see http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/88/topics/1548... for details).Our original plan was to rent this out as a SFR. But over the last 24 hours, I started wonderin...
Josh Ambrose
Is Renting or Flipping Better?
What do you guys think is the better way to go? To buy and rent to build a great source of passive income or Buy and flip to make great returns but with more work and risk?
Jason Powell
Do syndicators outperform the average investor?
I'm wanting to enter a more restful season of life after sprinting hard that last few years. Syndications, in theory, sound like a very attractive option to me. I get how they work, but I wanted to ask you:1) Do avera...
Latimer Luis
Just started but ready to quit .... please talk me out of it
I "kinda, sorta" closed on my first Duplex today. This will be my first multi-family and my third investment overall. I'm still a novice compared to many folks in the community, which is why I'm posting here in "Start...
Michelle Bulich
Would you purchase a house that haunted?
I have a feeling this may be the first time something like this has been asked on BP. I am finally about to put a bid on my very first property and it’s a foreclosure. When people say ‘if it’s too good to be true it u...