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I'm curious to how many members were raised in homes of entrepreneur/business owners and how many are self-taught. To me it seems difficult to transition from 9 to 5 thinking (my parents) to that of an entrepreneur. W...
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I was contacted by a lady in Wayne Township, with a house she want's to sell in Clermont a small town west of Indianapolis. She is 4 months behind on her mortgage. She lost her husband last year, and she has been una...
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Just purchased an investment property built in about 1960. We've just about finished repainting the interior, but there is a persistent (what I call) "old house" smell. It's not from a former smoker, and it doesn't ...
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Hi guys and gals,
I was wondering how did you start building your crew for a flip?
Do you hire just 1 General Contractor?
or
Do you hire sub contractors for each job?
( i.e. one for flooring, one for drywall)
W...
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I am considering tiling over tile in a walk in shower. There is enough play in the Delta valve handle to accommodate another layer of tile and I have found drain extensions at HD. Custom building products has a prim...
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I have been doing this LL thing for 6 years now. My average annual vacancy rate for my business is around 7%. That is taking all the occupied weeks and dividing by all of the available weeks (X100).
I usually have ...
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I'm new to real estate investing and ideally, I wanted to start investing in Multi-family units with the intention to generate cash flow. In my location multi-family units are a lot more expensive then I'm really look...
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Hi everyone. I wanted to pose a question to fellow investors who are veterans of the market crash of 2008 or Asian economic crisis, and other economic crashes in the last 20 years.
For those of you who are ha...
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I am a realtor in CA and I've spoken with realtors in Ohio, Florida, Texas, Tennessee and I've had no luck seeing a difference in return on investment or cash flow on properties. I can get around .62% on SF here and t...
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Hi, So, I'm trying to make it simple... I got money I am lending to a brother in-law to purchase a property. Property needs cosmetic work. He will do the work him self and pay for repairs him-self and then occupy the ...