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I'm interested in a duplex in my area, but there is no central air system installed in the home, and the heat is baseboard electric. My initial reaction is to be concerned that window A/C units may not be satisfactory...
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In most instances, I would assume it is for two reasons. To generate passive income which will help eliminate the need to work and to help with our retirement.
Normally about this time of year, various magazines come...
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When I bought into San Francisco 10 years ago, after 20% down, I was still losing $1K ish per month per door.... I had to work my day job and saved every penny to support my real estate enthusiam..... But I had hope a...
After reading the "Cashflow Doesn't Build Wealth" by Shane Pearlman I can see that there are a lot of really passionate opinions on both sides of the fence. There were some really good arguments presented by both sid...
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Hey folks!I had some trouble figuring out where this fits, as it's more of a strategic decision I'm hoping to get some other perspectives about. I'm going to just kind of bare all of the thoughts that have been slowly...
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Hello, This is my first post on Bigger Pockets. I love all the podcasts and forum articles. Love, love love this site and hope one day to meet Scott Trench, Brandon Turner, Josh Dorkin and Mindy Jensen some day...mayb...
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Hi everyone.I got a property with hard money, rehabbed, and then refi'd out using Quicken Loans. In the mist of trying to get out as quickly as possible before our hard money payments hit (they gave us 3 mo. period to...
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I'm looking for some advice here. We're selling our house and have been in escrow for 31 days now. The contract states 18 days for financing contingency removal.Basically the buyer's mortgage broker and the bank (Chas...
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Hello Biggerpockets!,I am mainly starting this discussion looking to see what my fellow veterans on this site have for VA loan experiences. If you have a success story or something you are proud of in terms of how you...