Erik Johnson
50 Year Mortgage
Has anyone tried to get mortgages for longer than 30 years? I am thinking if I could try to get a 40-50 year mortgage I could get more cash flow out of the properties in the short term. Are there any companies that wi...
Michael Delpier
Houston - Is the market going soft?
Houston, Do we have a problem?I'm wondering if the market is softening in Houston Texas.Fair warning: I'm new to analyzing. And my information is from realtors web sites. (not raw data) But the data is reported to com...
Andrew Albert
Is a 2% (or even 1.5%) Rule SMF in Worcester too much to ask for?
My wife and I have been researching and visiting small multi-family properties in the Worcester, MA area. We're finding opportunities in the lower income areas but it seems most, if not all, barely meet the 1% rule......
Manaswi Mishra
Analyzing Cashflow vs. Asset Appreciation in Rental Property Investment in Bay area
Hi I am a 31M living in Mountain View and am looking for a rental investment property within 50 miles of my residence. My monthly HH income is 16k USD after tax.After looking at multiple properties and calculating the...
Razmig Yeremian
Won an auction on a foreclosed property; Possible crackhouse
Hey guys! First-time poster here, as I was directed to this site by reddit's /r/property management subforum for a recent posting I submitted. As the posting states, just won a bid through auction on a foreclosed pro...
Don Konipol
The 10 Wrong Assumptions made by People purchasing real estate mentorship programs
The 10 Wrong Assumptions made by People purchasing real estate mentorship programs
That being part of a group of people all chasing the same deals, in the same area, trying to use the same strategies and techniqu...
Meg K.
What would you do????
I know most people on the forums are well established financially and have real estate acumen, so please bear with me and be gentle ;)I have lived in an owner-occupied duplex (top/bottom) for 12 years now occupying th...
Sean McDonnell
STRs in Mountains vs Beach Towns
There has been a lot of talk recently about short term rentals in mountain vacation towns (thanks @Avery Carl - but really your episode was awesome) but are there a lot of you who invest in beach towns? We own two bea...
Ted Barrett
Mortgage Rates Eating into Cash Flow Under 1% Rule
Hi all,
I've been trying to find updates of the 1% rule and whether it's working in 2024, specifically when you're using a mortgage at 80% LTV, 30-year mortgage. Looking at rates today, if I were to buy a property fo...
Nathan Wiebe
Comparing US Markets
Can people give me some unbiased opinions on a list of markets and what they’re seeing in those areas? Using a scoring system can people rate these markets on a scale of 1-10 for population growth, job growth, and vac...