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Hello Newbie Investor hereI am in the Navy currently stationed in San Diego CA I am just starting my real estate investor journey. I bought a Single Family Home last year and I am trying to turn it into a rental so I ...
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Hello Forum,This is my first post after lurking around a bit, and was hoping I could get some direction. I currently live in a house hacked duplex, and rented out the lower unit roughly a month ago. This is the 3rd te...
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I've been going back and forth over what to do and would appreciate any feedback. A couple months ago we purchased a SFH with cash and an unsecured credit line ($20,000). The line is interest monthly with a variable i...
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Hello Los Angeles BP community!This is my first official post, just wanted to reach out and introduce myself! I'm currently in the beginning stages of looking for my 1st investment to started, which will be a duplex ...
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I've seen a lot of posts about people eager to start an RAL and wanted to share some of the costly lessons I have learned and hopefully you can realize it before embarking on these projects. I've noticed the usual pos...
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Austin real estate in appreciating in value faster than I have ever seen. I would like to try and invest in Killeen which has a softer market; however, the tax assessor's record shows that a lot of properties are dec...
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Like others here, I've recently gotten into vacation rentals with my first property in Vegas after having focused only on long-term rentals for the past 5 years. While it's still early, the performance of the vacatio...
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My wife and I work a lot and have one rental property, our prev home. Looking into getting another (and more) buy/hold SFH, duplex, or maybe town home (though they don’t seem to appreciate as much as SFH). However, ...
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Now that my team is actively investing in two markets, Tucson (for 10 years) and Kansas City (for 1 year), I have been surprised by the similarities in Kansas City that we saw 10 years ago when we started investing in...
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WHAT'S UP EVERYONE!!Now that my final tenant moves in this weekend thought I'd share a little bit about my latest project. I bought a 4-plex in Hamilton Ontario and I want to give everyone an inside look at what this ...