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Newbie here, please go easy on me!Let’s say I have $200,000 that I’d like to use to invest in real estate and I’m interested in a buy and hold strategy. I’m 33 years old, have a full time career outside of real estat...
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My wife and I recently closed on a house in Omaha, NE at $155,000 using a conventional loan. Since the closing/move, I've read a few books including "Set for Life". So as it stands now we are planning on saving $1,500...
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I'm worried about over-leveraging myself on my properties. My wife and I have our primary residence and a rental property (that we have owned for about 4 months). I'm thinking about using $20K of the $80k equity in m...
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I haven't made an offer yet, but the house has a gas water heater and dryer (don't know about the range). Is it expensive to convert these to electric? (not in terms of getting new appliances, but in terms of adding n...
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I have a goal of getting 12 owner financing deals for 2025.I'm currently building a list of 1,000 multifamily agents to do monthly agent outreach to get off-market pocket listings with good creative financing terms. T...
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Hi BP community! I'm new to real estate investing and looking to get started with my first deal in the next ninety days. I apologize in advance for the length of the post below...A little background on me; I have a ...
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Grant Cardone recently released the a new book titled "How To Create Wealth Investing in Real Estate" I was wondering if anyone here on BP has purchased the book as I am currently awaiting for mine to be mailed out, a...
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Hello BP,I was wondering how do you evaluate/determine your comfort level with regards to leverage. Typical SFH lender guidelines allow for (75-80%) leverage on properties and consider your debt to income ratio. Por...
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Any suggestions from investors who purchase a property and perform interior rehab with tenants occupying the unit?
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Hey all, I'm looking into buying a 3-unit multi family home. As of right now, two of the units (a duplex) have utilities covered in their rent. It's a 2br/1bath and a 4br/1.5bath and tenants pay $650 and $550 respecti...