Do you buy ugly houses? I have succeeded in negotiating a price for my first commercial property that made me quite comfortable. It is a mixed use building in a high traffic area. Currently it is vacant but one ten...
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Looking for a semi low maintenance hot tub recommendations for short term rentals. Also, Is it realistic to ask housekeep to keep up with chemicals?
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1. Say a house is bought for $40k, $15k repairs needed. ARV $100,000. What is as is value? For a low priced house like this will you require an appraisal to determine it, or go off some desktop estimate?2. Once as is ...
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Hi BP,
I am finishing up renovating a side by side duplex in Raleigh and I was looking to get some advice on how I should design the front porch. It is a shared porch with center steps. I have one long term renter ...
If you don’t live under a rock, you’ve heard about Miami’s meteoric rise in rental prices over the last year. According to a recent RentCafe
article, “Miami-Dade County is now the hottest rental market in the nation...
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I purchased my first Duplex property about three months ago for $75k, using FHA 3.5% percent down. The original plan was for the tenant's side to pay 100% of the mortgage / taxes / insurance / PMI, while I cover trash...
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I just looked at a property today. About 850 sq ft, built in 1900, but looks ok from the outside. The owner has some friends living there. He says they pay 750 in rent, but who knows. Its on an acre and he wants 60k f...
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Hi, I have a cylinder lock that, when I showed a picture to a couple locksmiths, is supposedly incompatible with any smartlocks because the door is too thin where the lock is located. I have some lockboxes but any ot...
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Hi BP Community,I've been looking for a rental property for about a year now in Cincinnati, Ohio and am about to close on my first property (Duplex, 2bdr, 1bdr)!I'm inheriting two tenants on the first floor (the 2-bed...
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I'm having trouble figuring out my best option for funding. I'm currently looking for houses in the San Antonio, TX area to flip (100-200k range).I have $70k saved in the bank. Part of this comes from my first flip th...