Tom Sharkey
Should you charge a pet fee in your STR? YES, You should!
Do you allow pets in your short term rentals? There is good justification whether yes or no. We find it works for us in the summer season but it depends on your risk tolerance as pets can significantly damage your pro...
Jerryll Noorden
There Is No Method That Can Target Motivated Sellers! None!
If targeting the foreclosure, absentee owners, inheritance, divorce, or probate lists truly gets you motivated sellers, why then does it take you 3000+ mailers, texts, or cold calls to finally snag ONE lousy deal! You...
Alex Terraciano
Starting An LLC for a Property
Hey Everyone! I'm in the process of closing on my first investment property in California and I'm going to put it under an LLC. Does anyone recommend opening the LLC in another state with potential tax benefits, or do...
Jack B.
Seattle market softening? Indicators are almost all there....
Rents went down this year. Vacancy is up. New supply is coming on the market and there is less competition. Interest rates have risen slowly but surely.Most of the indicators of at least a small correction are there. ...
James Johnson
What to do with $100,000
If you have little to no experience with rental property (just bought a book on landlording) and had $100,000 to invest only in real estate, where and how would you invest it?
1. buy as big a multi unit complex th...
Dave Rav
Wholesaling - new marketing methods
Hey, all BP members and investors! I wanted to reach out about more recent and updated marketing methods for wholesaling. Curious to know what everyone else is doing. In my experiences recently, formerly basic and ...
Rio Peterson
Is potential partner a fraud?
I was recently approached by a seemingly experienced real estate investor to partner with him to flip $1M+ ARV homes. We met for the first time at a networking event and after hearing I work in finance, he was overly ...
Yoochul C.
How and what is Infinite Banking used for Real Estate.
Some of you might have heard of the term Infinite Banking before. There are the naysayers like Suzy Orman or Dave Ramsey but it is a viable strategy for real estate investing. The strategy is simple, using a whole l...
J Scott
Wholesaling Thoughts
This post doesn't really have much of a point...just some rambling from someone whose perspective on buying wholesale deals has changed over the past week...
As anyone who has read stuff I've written about wh...
Bryan Hancock
Do You Carry Your Properties At Historical Cost Or Mark Them To Market?
When you do your accounting for your PFS, business books, etc. do you carry the projects at historical cost or mark them to market? If you mark them to market how do you determine "true" market value without cheating...