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Picture it...Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, home of old houses with serious problems and the people who live in them. At the end of October, the bathroom sink upstairs springs a leak. The leak flows across the tile floor a...
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I have been listening to all of the podcasts recently and reading and searching the forums alot. It's has been said that the market will crash soon for the past 3-4 years from what I have found. I am not a market foll...
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I’m hoping that people can share their experiences with me about their recent successes in BC real estate, markets to be looking at, and the best ways to get started (apartment, townhome, detached, etc). If people wan...
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Sometimes people struggle with how to employ negotiating tactics that they read about in real world situations. The BP community has probably collectively negotiated more real estate deals than any other group in the...
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Just went to inspect some work and noticed they weren't using thinset to lay down the cement board under porcelain tile.
When I asked the contractor, he asked his flooring guy who had been doing tile for 25 ...
I know people frequently structure deals with disproportionate distributions to the sponsor to reward them for their performance. Every waterfall model I've ever done has used IRR targets as hurdle rates. This is grea...
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Hi BP community I'm under contract for a couple of months now. I found this house I like in an expensive market that I'm moving to in September. FYI This 2-family I'm going to househack and rent out the rent. At that ...
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Curious if anyone has opinions here. I already own a house in north jersey not far from Morristown, thinking about buying my first multi family long term rental locally or somewhere like Buffalo or Cincinnati… I have ...
Just a few more methods of finding properties, hope they help. Dan :idea:
Finding the Deals
• Place this classic ad in your local paper’s real estate section to appear on Sunday: If you can afford to run 7 days a w...
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Hello Everyone at BP.
I have been reading, researching real estate investments and strategies for many years. For the past few months, I've been hooked on BP. The thing I like the most on this forum is people help...