Hi everyone, I'm a freshman in high school and 14 years old, I'm also very eager to learn a lot about real estate! So I was wondering if it's possible if over the summer (I will be 15 then) that I would be able to get...
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Last January my wife and I came into some money and we decided to pay cash for our first home. We negotiated a little with the former owners and settled on fair value for the property. (We offered to pay closing costs...
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This is my first post, please bear with me. I’ll try not to make a total idiot out of myself.
A little about myself. I retired from a career with a transportation company after 38 years of service in June of 2011....
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Hello,Long time lurker, decided to start being active in the BP community.I'm a lender, of the traditional 'soft money' mortgage sort. Investment property purchases are mostly really interesting problems to solve from...
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Hello BP!, question to all..as somebody who works 60+ hours a week 5-6days and trying to jump into this wild business im wondering what would you consider a safer easy bet to start with? I definitely got my mind on mu...
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I have a home I owner financed back in 2013 and since July of 2016 he has been getting further and further behind. The deal was done through an attorneys office and my question is what do I do from here? I have reac...
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Hi everyone,I have a few old solo 401ks at vanguard that do not let me self direct. I’m looking to roll them into a different bank that will let me send direct and make loans for real estate investing to take advantag...
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Hi all,I'm a new REI just getting started in the Albuquerque, NM market. I'm not currently working and using this "down time" to get my REI business going. I'm trying to arrange financing at the moment. I have enoug...
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I am a new investor, and I have a lead on a property that I know looks to have a lot of criteria to be a good deal:
-payments are delinquent
-owner is out of state
-owner is an unwilling landlord
-owner tried to sell...
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I love the BRRR strategy..however im stuck...if i take a HELOC out to buy a $140,000 property cash, do I refinance and get back about $98,000 (70%) to pay back SOME of the HELOC or do I keep the property paid off and ...