Michael Shear
My First Investment Property St Louis
My wife and I purchased a four unit apartment in STL. Purchase price $85000. The market rent in the area is $500, but we knew that we could place value in the apartments by cleaning up, installing electric appliances,...
Fred Conway
food franchise vs real estate
This is a question I have thought about lately and was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on the matter. Clearly you need cash to buy a food franchise, specifically fast food, so this question wouldn't apply to what...
Shane Pearlman
Catching Tenants Breaking Bad
Hey PBers.I'm a little scarred from tenants using my nice SFRs to build grow houses. It has only happened once, and through amazing luck, they turned out to be the nicest drug dealers ever and helped pay to remediate ...
Account Closed
Crowd Funding VS Building Your Own Portfolio....OR BOTH?
I have recently been looking into the possibility of investing in Crowdfunding. I am still fairly new to investing but thought this may be an option to help diversify my portfolio in another way. From what I can gat...
Amos Stoltzfus
Marketing as a investor with a Real Estate License
Hi I have a question on how marketing should be done, if say for example you are sending out yellow letters for wholesale leads, and you have a realtor license. There are special rolls a realtor has to follow when mar...
Christopher Erwin
How My Burst Pipes May Turn Into a 40+% CoC Return!
Re-Post from my BP Blog --> My recent tenant mishap led to burst pipes and thousands of $$ in plumbing, carpet, paint & cleaning. Worth it? 100% IMO...read on for why! All feedback is welcomed and encouraged.--...
Keith Meyer
San Diego Real Estate 2018 - What is your 5 year plan?
Hi All,Like all of us trying to wrap our heads around how to get involved in the San Diego residential real estate market in 2018, I am trying to weigh the pro's and con's of where I see the market currently and where...
Joshua D.
Why In the World would you invest in Real-estate?
What is your WHY??? What wakes you up in the morning and makes you want to do a deal? When I started 5 years ago, I used to think it was for financial freedom or more time with my future kids, but now I think I just e...
Tony Nguyen
Rehabbers - whats on your Daily To Do List?
hey,
what are you guys doing to stay busy? The busiest time of my work is when we have projects that we're working on, but even then it's not THAT busy. I hire the contractors to do all the work and all I do is go pi...
Julian K.
Cape Coral-Fort Myers Rental Properties
I'm a first time rental investor. I was wondering if the Cape Coral-Fort Myers area would be a good investment. I'm from PA and would love to invest in this area.Are there any good turn key companies out there?Would...