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I'll be moving to Chicago for a new job starting August 1st. My tentative plan is to find a place to rent for a year while I get settled at my job and learn the area, then hopefully invest or house hack that next year...
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Hi BP family
I was just thinking about how helpful it would be to see a few appraisal reports for SFHs in a certain area and wondered if there is any platform for this? Or if it's taboo / against any rules to share t...
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Hi Folks,As the title suggests, I'm looking at an owner finance deal (6 residential units plus 3 commercial spaces,485k asking price) and I think they'd consider an offer with 50k down. I have about 20k available at t...
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My husband has an S-Corp that he used for his previous work as an independent contractor (non-real estate related). We both own some rental properties (both our names on the titles) and have always used our personal b...
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Hello, I'm about to embark on a real estate project in Costa Rica and I believe in educating oneself before doing anything, especially since I'm not an expert by any means in this field. So I was wondering if you kne...
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Hi All,I'm looking at an early 1900s property in the Columbus area that would need a full rehab being sold AS-IS. I'd be doing a lot of the work on it myself or with the help of knowledgable family and friends, but ho...
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Hello FL Investors,I am wondering if any of you are or have been using the lease agreement from BP site for your rentals? I downloaded the package and went over it and my non-attorney opinion is that they are pretty s...
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Is this a thing? My wife and I are considering taking advantage of 10% down vacation home loan for our first STVR property. Is it possible to include renovation costs into this kind of loan, or would we be forced to t...
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Just wanted to hear some stories how some of the investors out there in the Atlanta market have used the brrrr Strategy to advance their investing journey in 2019
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Hello, first post from a new member! I recently formed a single member LLC through the state of Texas to use as a vehicle to buy and hold passive income streams. I have a few existing interests in multifamily and comm...