Hello everyone, I wanted to know if $30/hour in North Jersey is a reasonable or too high to pay a contractor for labor.  He is someone I know that is very good.  He just started to be self employed and has no real exp...

Hello,This is my first time posting on here and my first home purchase. I am looking for professional insight on the duplex I currently have under contract Casper, Wyoming, just west of Washington Park. This is a town...

A few years after graduating from college I purchased my first rental property. This first investment, bought in 2017, is a buy and hold single family house that I bought 50/50 with my brother. Ever since, I have read...

Hello BP! My name is Brandon Hayes. I moved to South Florida from Fairbanks Alaska 3 years ago for an occupational opportunity to build Race Cars! I’ve been a mechanic all my life and have a background in construc...

Hello everyone, I’m looking to purchase a multi family property in New Jersey. Preferably a duplex to start out my investing. I’m trying to find areas in NJ that have positive job growth and economic development but t...

My contractor gave an estimate for the turn-around of a serious fixer-upper, and I was wondering how his time-table compares to the average? He said he wanted to take a little more time to be able to pull together...

Hi BP.! I am trying to narrow down the strategy I'd like to used to get started. As I look at properties around me, I am stuck between (1) entering REI with a flip to gain more investing captial and (2) acquiring a pr...

Does anyone have good or bad experience deepening a crawl space that is so shallow that it doesn't allow for full access to the crawl space and floor joists for inspection?

I have had some termite trouble so this i...

I found Rodney’s write-up of his deal incredibly helpful, so I wanted to give back with one of my own. Thanks for the inspiration!
Background
A little over a year ago, I was working in the entertainment industry in ...

We are in the market to buy and hold and plan to put down 25%.We have a seasonal real estate agent working with us, who is also a friend.  Rent in the areas we are interested in is about $1300 – $1550 for a 2 bds/1 ba...