Edward Callaway
Knowing Your Local Market
Good morning,Newbie here! My wife and I have decided to start our strategy of exiting the proverbial “rat race” through real estate investing. We are currently interested in short-term rentals and buy-and-hold rentals...
Sidney Qiu
Investor from Ontario Canada
Hi everybody. I am Sidney, an investor from Ontario Canada. I have experience in both rental and fix-fip projects in Canada. Right now I am looking into investing in US real estate market. Would like to start in aroun...
Bob Couture
Portfolio Lender 2 yr Self Employed Rule
I am hitting a wall with Portfolio Lenders in Massachusetts. Although their loans are in-house they follow the Fannie Mae guidelines and the one I can not overcome presently is ... 2 years of self employed income h...
Phil Morgan
DIY glass block basement windows?
Question for all you handy folks out there. I have a brick duplex and am currently closing on my second one and they are both in need of glass block windows in the basement. Is this a DIY project or something that sh...
Nick Sabat
Hiring (Dealing With) a Contractor
Hi,New to the Forum and BP. Already, I feel the need to contribute. The subject hits home for me in several ways. Property owner Repair (Building) Contracting/Contractors - I've been in the in the Real Estate and the ...
Andrew Junquet
When can a landlord enter a property
Just took over being landlord of a single property I rent out. I've had the same tenant for 4+ years and had to let the PM go because he kept doing things like losing her rent check. I called her today to introduce my...
Mike Richter
Looking for my first Apartment Complex
Hello everyone!It's a wild and wooly 2015 so far! There are currently 6 apartment complexes available in my market area, 2 of which are in D or worse areas, 2 are represented by REALTORS specializing in residential tr...
Juan Perez
Wholesale Contract, I know you get this a lot but I have a sample
I live in Texas, and I've heard of the TREC 20-12 but its 9 pages and I've seen a lot of wholesaler's just locking up contracts with a simple but yet effective 1 page Contract, I looked around the web and found these ...
Kevin Dawravoo
Cap rate vs. ROI
I am just getting into REI so this may be a very basic question for most of you but I've been struggling to figure out what is more important cap rate or ROI. And is the ROI denominator (investment basis) only the amo...
Mike Landry
breaking contract with wholesaler
I'm asking for a friend here. Here is the quick situation. He is a newbie, got excited and signed a contract on a property from the first wholesale deal he saw. 8 unit in houston. The wholesaler(who I think most o...