Jacob Butler
Multi family or single family
I plan on using a VA loan to buy my first (of hopefully many) house soon, I want to turn this property into an investment property after about a year residing inside it, should i be more focused on just getting the be...
Rachael Palmer
STR in Unincorporated Bay Pines (5 min drive to Madeira Beach) or Indian Rocks Beach
Hello everyone,
I grew up in St. Petersburg and now live out of state. However, I'm interested in investing in a STR in my home state, especially as my mother still lives here. I've looked in Tampa (Hyde Park, Tampa ...
John Reagan Johnson
Switched to a Property Manager
This is a post based off of curiosity. To all self managing landlords that switched to using a property management company, what caused you to make the switch? Was there a situation you encountered that deterred you f...
James Allen
Are we heading into the next Real Estate Market Crash?
Hi BP Members,Thought I'd get everyone's thoughts on the current market. Are we heading into a real estate crash/correction? I've recently noticed that the amount of inventory is starting to pile up in my area and som...
Cornelius Garland
How often should I get a new list for cold calling, direct mail, texting? With KPIs.
Good day!This has been on my mind to discuss as I get asked this question often. Why is this important? Simply put, you can overspend on your marketing campaigns if you're pulling a new list of 10,000 sellers weekly. ...
Horacio Gutierrez
Raising rents every year
If you raise the rent every year, do you always need to fix something small on the property to justify you raising the rent or every other year you dont have to improve something and just tell tenant raising rent for ...
Hemanth Grandhige
Optimizing Cash-Out Refi and New Purchases
I have 5 rentals in the Atlanta and Tampa area. In total they are worth around 1.2M and I have debt on them around 260K. I have talked to a Loan Broker about doing a cash-out refi. We first talked about a portfolio ...
Nathan Gesner
Are rents dropping in your market? You are not alone.
https://www.zillow.com/research/october-2024-rent-report-345...
It's normal for the market to slow down in winter, especially right around Thanksgiving and Christmas. This year feels different, and I'm hearing many l...
Sean Connolly
Raising Rent
Hello All,Just looking for some input. I have recently purchased a single family home and a duplex right next door. I live in the single family now, and kept both tenants in the duplex. They both are very polite, keep...
Chris Seveney
Interest rates are not going back to 3%
I am sure many of you will disagree with me, but I am seeing a lot of posts talk about “today’s high interest rates”I believe there are many of us who view today’s rates to be more of the norm versus the outlier.If yo...