Will Wu
From 0 to 140 houses in 2 years. Now what?
It's been a hell of a ride during the past 2 years. I started my real estate investor back in June 2012. Bought 12 Class B townhouses and started learning being a landlord, 3 months later bought 37 class D apartments....
John Ellis
Cost of Investors Money?
The past year I have worked with one investor who bank rolled the entire operation and we split the profit. After two homes we decided to create a company and partner 50/50 on everything. We have 100,000 in cash. We a...
Diane G.
Rent dropped I'd say 20%, maybe 25% in San Francisco
So I had a studio that happened to come on the market 3 days before the corona lockdown...Just finally rented it out after 45 days on the market....at $200 below asking....Was asking $3000...
What is even more weird ...
Nathan Shankles
The 2% rule - how close do you stick?
I bought my two investment properties about 8 years ago and at that time hadn’t heard of Th e 2% rule. When I recently learned of it, I went and did the math. Each of my properties falls between 1.3 and 1.6%. I’m wond...
Troy Baack
Turnkey investment opinions
In much of the research I have done I have been struggling to find rental properties that are going to be able to cash flow well in this economy. I am looking at investing for the long term and am okay with getting in...
Rachan M.
What strategies work in a high interest rate market?
What strategies do you think work in today's market with high interest rates?
I'm finding it difficult to find rental properties that'll cash flow. I'd imagine most buyers can't or won't get a loan right now, since m...
Ian Zuber
How and When to Add Value
Hey, BiggerPockets community! I am proud to say that with a lot of advice and guidance, I finally purchased my first property. It is a duplex in a very nice Pittsburgh suburb close to hospitals, nightlife, shopping, a...
John Harris
Out Of State Investing
Hello BP community I Wanted to take the opportunity to see what advice anyone had to offer on investing in Out of state markets. I currently live in a hot market (the SF-Bay Area) , where finding property isn't an imp...
Andrew Perkins
More rentals OR less debt
Hello!Does it make sense to use the appreciation gained from our current rental properties to pay down our primary residence mortgage? We currently cash flow about $600/month on 2 rental properties. However, if we w...
Mitchell J.
15 or 30 year mortgage for landlording?
Hi all,I'm curious to get your thoughts on whether you think a 15 or 30 year mortgage is the right way to go for a buy + rent out strategy? Suppose my goal is not necessarily cash flow (say I have a full time job tha...