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HI All,I am looking for investment opportunities in Philadelphia, specifically in single fam or small multi-fam homes. After seeing about 30 properties all over the city, we found that Manayunk and Roxborough were th...
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I know this has been discuss many times on the forum, but here is my question.Does trying to buy a property under an LLC make it harder to get a traditional mortgage and get insurance. I am preparing to start house fl...
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My name is Kelly Newby, and I have a very NOVICE experience in real estate. I currently reside in the Atlanta, Georgia area. My current occupation is a systems engineer with a fairly large IT company. My ultimate goal...
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I was wondering if anyone had any experience or was planning on building or converting existing living space into an extra unit in California, or any state for that matter. The reason I specifically mentioned CA is be...
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Hello BP! I'm a relatively new member and my goal is to acquire ONE property by the end of this year. I've been studying rental property investing through various channels and found that BP by far is the best resource...
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My dad is a contractor and he has been instrumental in helping me buy my first reo property. He has inspected the house and determined what work needs to be done on it. He will also have one of his guys serve as the...
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I see sometimes that companies that do rehabs will buy a property and rather than rehabbing, they will simply list it for sale as-is with a mark-up. My question is, if one company/investor doesn't want to get into fi...
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It surprises me how little pushback I receive from rental applicants when I ask for their social security number on my rental application. While I take care to safeguard their information and destroy it when I'm done,...
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Hello All,Firstly I only deal in flips. On all of my previous flips I exclusively use cash (helps me get properties and avoids all of the mortgage related headaches that come along with closing).I am exploring two dif...
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Hello everyone,Working on my first flip and honestly the hardest part has been keeping track of expenses. I get receipts from my contractors and enter the line items into Excel. I then categorize each line item, and E...