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Hey everyone I’m 22 years old turning 23 in December and i want to get started in Real Estate Investing flipping houses preferably and having that return buy me rental properties for cash flow. However, I have never o...
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My wife and I are currently starting out real estate journey. 1.5 years ago we bought a dental practice, and last year we purchased our dental office building priced at around $2M with $500k in equity. We currently ma...
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Hello BP investors. I am all over the place looking for a market to invest. Norfolk and Virginia Beach, VA because of the possibility to do both STR and LTR with the same property). Memphis, TN and Birmingham, Al for ...
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This is a long overdue thanks to the BP community as a whole and the mentors and friends I have met through BP.
By way of background, my core investing strategy is buy and hold. I hav...
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For buy and hold investors out there, how do you guys think about appreciation and how do you factor it in to your buying and selling decisions, if at all? What key factors do you use to measure the potential for appr...
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So I've been slogging through a 3-month rehab and rent house for the past 6 weeks. Condensing a large project in half as a DIY beaver that likes to build his OWN dam is not recommended. I took on a frantic timeline ...
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Greetings, I just put up one of my units on the market for rent. Many people are highly interested.  I have a few families that are practically begging (for lack of better terms) to be the one selected. Their applic...
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Per the Bloomberg article, it seems rent for studios have dropped about 35%, 1 bedrooms 27%, and 2 bedrooms 22% as of November 2020.
I know it's been hotly debated whether cities will die out or not, but I want to l...
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Hello all,
So I'm looking for some advice here. My house was sold as a short sale, we closed on 11/4/09 and there was a first (Washington Mutual, now Chase) and second (Citimortgage) lienholder involved. I recently...
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I dont like renting to people that just recieve social service checks as income for 2 reasons.
1. If you dont work for it you dont take care of it.
2. You cant not garnish social service income.