Joey Piha
Zillow calculating selling/closing costs?
Hi everyone, when using the calculators on BiggerPockets, I always have trouble predicting the closing costs. Zillow has a feature on every listing where it estimates that 14% of purchase price of a property is the nu...
Alex Mikhals
lexis nexis spokeo and TLO Skip Tracking
When I first started out, I was using Spokeo for Skip Tracing and I was getting about 45% accurate phone numbers and 39% accurate e-mail addresses. I had ADDRESSES only, so I would do a reverse address lookup , grab t...
Irwin Haddox
Tools for knowing rental prices in the market
I found this tool here https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/fmr.html I wanted to know if anyone used it or if its accurate. What other tools do you use to know how much rents are going for?
Sami Gren
Rental applicants on cash jobs
Hi, I have prospective tenants that claim to have the husband-and-wife incomes that pay them cash, how would you go about verifying their income?
Thuy Pham-Satrappe
Different property tax rate for buy and hold investors?
I'm looking to buy and hold in Fort Wayne Indiana which is in Allen County. The website gives a calculation on property taxes but I'm wondering if it's accurate for me as an investor? Does it take into account tax ass...
David Farrar
Books and knowlege equal power!
How many Real Estate books have you read this year? So far this year have read and listened to 51 books. I have a binder full of invaluable notes. It is awesome.
Jeff G.
Trying to Wrap My Head Around Section 8 Rentals in Ohio
I have my eye on the Cleveland and Akron OH markets for my first rental property. I'm out-of-state, in CT where properties are more expensive and property taxes are extremely high. Those markets caught my eye, not jus...
Rob Adams
First time flip is difficult
It's hard to flip your first house. If there was an easy way to get >20% on your cash in 3-6 months, everyone would do it. So it's going to be hard. Especially the first one. How do I know? Because I'm on the wrong...
Christina Kinard
Mortgage Loan Question - Vacation home North Carolina
Hello!
I am under contract on a vacation property (10% down) & looking to lock in with a lender. The current lender we got rates from is telling me that they require a percent of the loan up front kind of like bu...
Patrick Philip
Problem with rebuilding?
Some of the wholesale listings I get say possible tear down and rebuild. I would do this if the number worked, but my problem is that I would have to pay an architect thousands of dollars for a set of drawings before ...