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This week will mark the 3-year anniversary since I purchased my first property, a turnkey single-family home, in Kansas City, Missouri. After receiving a lot of questions from prospective investors on my purchase...
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Hello everyone,Newbie here, but I'm serious to get started investing. I've read enough, watched enough Grant Cardone videos and I'm ready to invest. I'm still educating myself but I'm committed to making an investmen...
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Hi everyone. So you know how on all the podcasts etc they say "I'm not an attorney and make sure you speak with an attorney first...." well I did just that. I spoke with 2 attorneys in the past 2 days and they complet...
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Hey everyone - I'm looking for my first STR property and am considering expanding my search to include multiple long distance markets since my home market is super slow right now (upstate NY). I have a question about ...
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I have a couple tenants that have destroyed my units. Obviously, I need to vet them better but as of now what are my options? I have photos showing ton of trash left behind, appliances ruined totaling about $10,000 in...
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On a lot of new investor posts, I read that they want to replace their full time income with passive income from real estate investing. Which all in all is not a bad thing but I think their time frames to do this is n...
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Hey folks, I'm in South Florida, so dealing with pretty crazy insurance costs in general, and thinking of branching into other states. What are your top 3 markets when considering all of the following factors? 1.Low P...
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Hello all,
I am new to the real estate business and I am just starting to renovate a 4 br, 3.5 bath in the Arizona. I am running into some maybe "ethical" dilemma. I have talked to 2 general contractors in which they...
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I attended a high income seminar today. The sad part was that the seminar title was Strategic Defaults! The speaker was very high powered attorney in swfl that has been doing these for a couple years. The stats came f...
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Has anyone worked with a contractor named Richard Brooks, under either the business name Semper Fi Renovations or STL Flips? I have a project going with him right now that is not going well, running almost 2X over est...