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Turner Wright Bad Deal—Help for 1st Investment
6 December 2022 | 33 replies

My first RE investment may be a bad investment, according, to two realtors who specialize in the market area. I estimated an ARV of $310k after rehab, but they say I will be lucky to get $275-285k. Below are the det...

Marianne Lopez-Henthorn Should I Buy Investment Property If My Personal Is Underwater?
17 July 2020 | 26 replies

My goal is to purchase my first real estate investment property within 1 year.I have a well-paying job, good credit, no consumer debt (just my car, which I'm working to pay off), and I am working on a 20% downpayment ...

Nathan Braithwaite Wife is not on board... yet.
28 June 2019 | 10 replies

I have always liked the idea of rental properties, but always thought it was out of my league. To make money, you must have money mentality. A couple months ago I stumbled onto Bigger Pockets via YouTube. I am hooked....

Jeffrey K. Hurting for work
12 December 2010 | 24 replies

I work in three zip codes (53202, 53211, and the expensive part of 53212). I can not find any deals. Sellers and banks have crawled under rocks. I am looking through my files from the last few years cold calling al...

David Burns Flipping - mileage as cost basis?
26 August 2015 | 12 replies

I'm a relative novice investor but I have done several flips and currently have one rental.  I do my own taxes but have always struggled with where/how to expense mileage to and from the properties I'm working on.  I ...

Austin S. Help on bulk house purchase
23 November 2016 | 7 replies

Hello, have my first opportunity to buy 6 properties from an investor.Bottom Line: 216k for 3350/month in rent.  I posted the full analysis below and these numbers seem like they would work, my worry is this is a bigg...

KIran K. Worst FIRST FLIP: LOST OVER 100k
15 October 2020 | 106 replies

Investment Info:
Single-family residence fix & flip investment in Sacramento.

Purchase price: $350,000

Cash invested: $50,000

Sale price: $415,000

It was the worst first flip because we hi...

Nick Scalero Here's how we should have spent the bailout money
16 March 2009 | 6 replies

Maybe I'm naive but here's how I think we should have spent the first bundle of bailout money.

1) Take a look at each loan in Foreclosure and see what could be done to get them out of that state. (buy down interest r...

Danny Webber Housing crash would be worse than Great Depression
18 July 2020 | 17 replies

Economics professor Richard Wolff warns housing crash would be worse than Great Depression"Economist Richard Wolff told Hill.TV’s “Rising” Wednesday that the coronavirus pandemic could lead to a housing crash worse th...

N/A N/A Got off the fence & bought 3! Now trouble looms.
17 May 2007 | 22 replies

Now its a year later & I have DEppreciation on 2 of them & negative cash flow on ALL of them although all 3 are rented!

I made the typical newbie mistakes of thinking prices would continue to rise & not ...