Yongming Huang
Why are real estate agent commissions so high in the US?
I have watched several discussions, including David Greene's video, around the recent lawsuit against NAR and RE brokerages. Learned a lot but there is one thing I just don't understand. If we look at the numbers, the...
Melanie Stephens
Biggest Mistakes/Lessons Learned: Short-Term Rentals
Hey everyone!
My name is Melanie Stephens and I write the “Biggest Mistakes/Lessons Learned” column for BiggerPockets Wealth Magazine.
I am looking for BP Member stories for an upcoming column on Biggest Mistakes ma...
Kyle Bigger
Seasoned investor wanting to walk away from it all
Hey BP! I have an interesting and important dilemma in real estate that I don't feel gets touched on enough. It's something I've been struggling with for years, despite the tremendous success I've had over the last fe...
Erin Madden
Are you a Peer Street Investor/Creditor?
I’m starting this thread in response to the recent bankruptcy filing of Peer Street. Several Peer Street investors seem to be on bigger pockets, so I wanted to get us all on one thread, if possible to share resources ...
Scott Houin
Property Manager Not raising rents as requested
About 6 months ago I reached out to my property manager in writing and ask them to raise rents on all my properties by $25. I reminded them to do this about a month before each lease renewed. When I got my lease re...
THU NGUYEN
Using Money to Buy/Rent Out or Lend out as Private Lender
Hi BP members,I need help analyzing the follow:In Houston Rental market (suburban), most will follow the 1%...so here is my calculation for getting a rental house that can rent out for $1500/month, at $150KMonthlyRent...
Kevin Moules
FIRST BRRRR PROPERTY! COME JOIN THE RIDE!
Hello BP members! I wanted to share with you my latest RE project. This is our 3rd RE transaction since jumping into RE in December of last year. First deal was a buy and hold 4 plex, then a flip which we are listing ...
Account Closed
Most apartment markets are near the peak -- buyer beware
I'm just posting this as a warning for newbies. Obviously, no one can predict the future and no one knows what's going to happen next year, the year after, etc. But most apartment markets are at or near the peak in ...
Alvin Uy
If you had access to a $900k HELOC, what would you do with it?
Ok.. so I was able to pull $900k+ worth of HELOCs between 2 of my 5 properties. I decided to temporarily leverage some of that equity into a property Im flipping (ground-up/new construction) here in Los Angeles. Th...
Account Closed
Math/Finance
What's the connection?
I was at a graduation recently where the commencement speaker announced future plans for each of the Math graduates as they received their diplomas. As I expected, many were headed to ...