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Stephen N. How do you decide what the option fee should be?
13 July 2009 | 4 replies

is it a certain dollar amount? or is it a percentage of the purchase price?

I am trying to sell a house using lease purchase. I am charging $5,500 as an option fee or about 3% of purchase price of $188,000.

just ...

Garry C. New to Landlording in Denver - Advice?
11 May 2016 | 5 replies

So, I'm not completely new to landlording. I currently do short term vacation rentals with a condo in the mountains. This month, I'm closing on a 3/2 condo in Denver metro and I plan to step into long term rentals. I'...

Ryan Heywood Lesson in Out of State Construction
1 February 2020 | 4 replies

The Goal: Have the two wooden fences that create enclosed patios replaced before I paint the building. The fourplex is in Phoenix while I live and work in California.What I Did: First I talked about the repair with my...

Shiloh Lundahl Although Information can be free, education is not.
7 February 2020 | 1 reply

We are no longer in the industrial age. We are now in the Information Age. And therefore, there are some who believe with the proliferation of information and the ease of googling everything that most information is f...

Mike Rodriguez FHA - First time buyer strategy?
16 September 2020 | 11 replies

Hi All! 
What is the difference between a FHA 3.5% loan and a conventional loan putting 5% down? From my understanding the FHA has more fees?
Is a good strategy to buy a fourplex with an FHA loan and then after a ye...

Corey Dutton What Has Been Your Biggest Expense in Real Estate Investing?
8 December 2012 | 9 replies

I had coffee recently with a retired real estate investor of 40 years. We talked about real estate cycles, flipping properties, the meltdown of 2008, and other things. He started telling me about some of his rehab hou...

Kimberly Reed RUBS for 5 unit property
3 December 2020 | 6 replies

I have a 5-unit mixed use property that I'd like to use RUBS (ratio utility billing) for until I can physically separate the utilities. All of the places I've contacted have told me they won't work with smaller proper...

Lucinda Hamre Sell or Refinance a Commercial Building?
4 March 2021 | 2 replies

We bought a commercial property (4200 ft2 home facility that is a handicapped-accessible 8 BR, 2 bath home, with 2 additional ensuite units that have dedicated bathrooms) that required significant work. As newbies, we...

Robert Kohnfelder Converting 3 BR into 5 BR: Pros vs. Cons?
7 March 2021 | 3 replies

Hey All,

My most recent purchase is a property that needed (needs) a lot of work. We are in the process of rehabbing the house in order to rent it out this summer, and then hope to refinance later this year in orde...

Katy Reid ISO: GC in STR Remodel in Joshua Tree
11 October 2021 | 15 replies

Hey there, I'm looking for a general contractor for an STR cosmetic remodel in Yucca Valley, CA. Open to recommendations. I've never done any remodels so also open to advice! Thanks!