Tom Giles
Seeking Advice - Sell or Hold SFH Rental
Background: April 2013, I purchased a SFH HUD repo. (built in 2007) in College Station, TX for $89K.The loan is a 30 year conventional at 3.75%, 20% down. Rehab costs were about $12K so total out of pocket investment ...
Martin D.
Saving Money vs. Missed Opportunity Cost
Hello BP,
After investing for a year and a half, I find myself in a strange dilemma.
I've become so focused on cash-flow that I refuse spending any money on myself. I make extreme sacrifices on a personal level to ...
Kristy Burton
First Rental Advice: Help Please!
We are brand new to real estate investing (primarily focusing on rental properties), although we've been educating ourselves for a while now (located in upstate of South Carolina). As we're trying to get started, we'v...
Mike Mike
Pay off my house before I buy a rental?
Hello everyone. I bought my first home about 10 months ago and I am 33. The loan was for 125k which I owe about 118k. I have no debt other than this house. My girlfriend pays the utilities and I pay the mortgage that ...
Adam Nesheim
Which is the smarter option?
Hey all, first post!I have a duplex in mind that I have seen and has current renters in that are currently paying $1300/mo. I ran two different analyses on the property. One was doing a house hack where my wife and I ...
Phillip Moreno
HELOC vs Mortgage first time buyer
Hello everyone. I’m 4 years from being able to retire from the military and dont want to work in gov contracting the rest of my life. I used the VA loan for my first home in San Diego and have 200k in equity that I wo...
Felipe Salgado
My 1st Purchase in Orange County
Hi everybody,I'm in the process of buying my first property and I'm looking for some advice or a little help from the BiggerPockets family. I'm using my VA loan and I'm looking to use this as an investment but at the ...
Shane Cummings
First Purchase: Investment Property vs Primary Residence vs Both
Good Morning, BP!I have been saving these past few months and my original plan was to put 20% down on my primary residence (which would be my first home purchase) somewhere in South Florida. And then be done with it.H...
Patty Nisbet
Where would you start and what would you do?
I have been reading a ton of books about investing. I know I want to buy buy and hold properties. I have a small savings but want to keep it for emergencies. I currently rent myself and would like to buy a house one d...
Rudy Saibun
Houses in Decatur 30034, is it safe area?
Has anyone has propety or stay in Decatur with zip code 30034?
If you do please advise,
Is it a safe area to live in?
Thank You in advance.
Regards,
Rudy