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How do you truly use someone else's money and not your own in real estate investing? Very confused because everybody I have listened to has preached that you can do this, but then on Bigger Pockets everybody is saying...
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How many of you use a property manager to manage your properties vs. managing your properties yourselves.
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I should have asked this before Thursday but, oh well, I’ll ask it now!This past week I found a potential duplex in a decent part of town. I asked the listing agent for rent, costs, remaining loan, etc. she returned a...
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I'm wondering if there is a creative way to list my rent price. Currently the utility prices are included in the rent because I don't have split meters. The problem with this is that it drives up the cost of the rent ...
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I'm wanting to enter a more restful season of life after sprinting hard that last few years. Syndications, in theory, sound like a very attractive option to me. I get how they work, but I wanted to ask you:1) Do avera...
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I write this as a career RE investor for 2 reasons: 1) Inexperienced investors might find a tidbit or two, and 2) that experienced investors might point me toward what is next for me.
I bought my first rental propert...
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Hello everyone, this is Christophe from Madagascar the land of lemurs...I have stumbled by accident on an ad from @Christopher Winkler advertising his business deals in Notes and shot him an email with half a million ...
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Hi all,
Is it absolutely necessary to put 20% down on a investment property? I'm trying to buy a duplex in the suburbs of Philadelphia and was told I have to put 20% down
Thank you,
Gerry
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So I am buying a property through a wholesaler, I already put down 7k of earnest money on the property, a hard money lender who I am working with (and got from the bigger pockets lists) asked for a "Good Faith Deposit...
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Hi!My husband and I are potentially making some big changes in our living situation in the next 3 - 6 months. We have a multi unit property in North Hollywood. A 3bed/2bath front home and a 2bed/1.5 bath duplex behi...