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I was once a buy and hold investor. Then one day, my light was turned off by the power company, in the house I lived in.How could that happen? I had 40 houses, but I was always robbing Peter to pay Paul. Edison, the p...
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Looking for some advice...I am fairly new and wanting to create steady passive income the best way I can via rentals and I thought turnkey...When doing the turnkey thing its very hard to find a company that provides b...
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I'm sad to say I don't see how Airbnb can survive this.
Airbnb.com says that Brian Chesky is making an announcement tomorrow (4/28/20) at 3pm pacific. We were hoping for good news. I guess we can assume this is the...
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Hello All,I would humbly ask for someone to double check my numbers on a potential deal I am working on. (Sorry if this is not the proper thread, this is my first post, other than new member post).Details:Not on MLSAr...
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According to Reuters, S&P has downgraded the US Credit Rating from AAA to AA+ and may likely downgrade again in the next year plus.
Thoughts? Insight?
I realize this may get political, but think this is an impo...
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Well, I hear that flip itself doesn’t create profit and time and effort spent make the property sell at faire market value.
Meanwhile flip is not (or should not be) dependent on house value appreciation.
So when you...
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Hi, BPersThank you all for the helpful advice on my first short rental in my previous posts! I finally finished the reno and decor and now it's up for renting. So far, I have 64% occupancy in 30 days. It is much more ...
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This was the general question someone else posted (@Connie Tang), but since I ended up writing a novel with some Negotiation Points, I wanted to start a new thread.
Here it is:
Don't be afraid to approach the subje...
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Hello
I'm new to this forum. I've reading many post in the last 2 weeks and now have one question.
I'm living in one of the EU Countries and would like to buy some properties in the US especially in Detroit area and ...
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I've read a lot of the forum posts, blogs, and am on podcast 131 (working my way through them), and paying off properties early vs. paying them off over the life of the loan seems to be a fairly divisive topic. Befor...