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Currently checking last nights bookings...
2:56am 4 Guests. (2 bedroom house) Used the word "girlfriend" and "eagle scout". Now I know once an eagle scout always an eagle scout. But Eagle Scout mixed with "Girlfri...
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In this day and and age of real estate, which to you think is more profitable? Real Estate or Virtual Real Estate? I love BP. Its a place where you as a real estate investor can go to find endless information...
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Hey everyone, just purchased our first rental property (SFR) and our excited to start our journey. If the house will be rent ready in mid-December, would you recommend a 15 month lease or so that it would renew in Spr...
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Hello Everyone, I applied for a mortgage so that I can buy my first rental property but unfortunately my mortgage application was declined by several banks. I have 10k saved up that I am willing to put down. What else...
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I'm trying to figure out creative ways to reach out to absentee owners. An idea that I had was to check Airbnb for listings that offered entire homes and reaching out to the owners through Airbnb. I feel like one woul...
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I purchased my first home exactly one year ago at a price of $55k. Today on Zillow it is estimated at 80k with a 30% appreciation in the last 30 days. How accurate can that be? And if is accurate should I sell or cont...
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I was perusing my portfolio and took a peek at what zillow had them valuedI compared this with what the county had assessed as real value for tax purposes they were all off by 10,000 plus or minus from each othermy ...
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I'm looking to buy foreclosed SFH and trying to find the BEST way, most economical, and smartest option to eliminate the 3rd party middlemen. Is Auction.com any good? Or are they priced too high? Is that site a good...
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If the house is damaged is the estimate on Zillow given according to its condition?
I told my investor that the house is $84,000. We had a GC check it out and said rehab will cost ~$20,000.
I used the public record...
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Hey BP crew! I'd love to get an idea of what the SoCal investment market is like and what people are looking for. With a huge sellers market and restrictions/guidelines with COVID constantly changing, what kind of pro...