I've been looking for my first rental property in Buffalo, NY area and using the rental property analysis tool from this site to do evaluations. I use estimates of 5% vacancy, 5% repair & maintenance and 10% cape...
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Hi everyone,
I am working on my first commercial property. I plan on buying it with equity I have in other properties (Heloc) and later refinance to get the my capital out. I am trying to estimate what the property w...
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This is my first post. I have one rental that my fiancé use to live in. I’m currently looking at a second.House: 3b1b 1070sf house built in 1940 Listed price: $62500It’s currently rents for $875/month and needs severa...
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Hey BP!I apologize in advance since I'm sure this question was asked before but I can't seem to find any clarity. I'm trying extremely hard to acquire my first duplex. It is more than a dream of mine (cheesy, I know)....
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My wife and I are close to retirement. We have some money that we're looking to put into RE (about $450-500k) that we can use and rent out the rest of the time. One to be near one of our kids (in Acworth) in the Red T...
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I am getting all the numbers gathered for my first deal, rough total purchase price to be about $110,000 on a duplex. I will need to make some repairs to the foundation and replace the carpet in the entire hou...
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Hi BiggerPockets community - I'm in my education phase of real estate investing, and have been working hard to learn the details of financial analysis. I’ve done a fair bit of web research, and am also part to most of...
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Our experience with a 203k loan:
Stephanie came across this triplex on Zillow just searching and saw this triplex that had been listed on the market for quite some time. The price was reduced several times over the y...
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Probably should have started this earlier. I’m a few weeks in, but I’ll split the post up so that it flows a bit better than a giant long read.Been getting all sorts of RE education through biggerpockets and my local ...
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Our property is in MI but we live in CA so it's hard to keep track of the tenant. We recently visited and discovered that they have been cultivating marijuana in the basement. They were growing and dispensing mariju...