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Hi, dear landlords on BP!!! I am going to close my first BRRRR house this month and will start the renovation next month. The strategy for this house is for rent for a few years then sell it or maybe just keep it as a...
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I’m an out of state investor looking for potential markets to invest in for buy and hold SFR rentals. After hours of scrolling around the map and trying various cities, I was not having much luck finding a market wher...
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I have 10 existing loans with only one being a Jumbo on my current primary residence. The others are on investment properties (6 fourplexes, one duplex, a single family rental and a STR vacation property).In speaking...
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I know other people have posted speculating about the next downturn in real estate. After 2008, people are understandably still shellshocked. However I have noticed a disturbing trend in conversations amongst friends ...
Things get HOT in Scottsdale (that's somewhere in Arizona ) where it was 117 degrees yesterdayShootout at short-term rental riles mayorhttps://www.scottsdale.org/cit...By just about any definition it was a bad party –...
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So I've been busy looking at deals, talking with people about my real estate journey so far, am 100% open about it to everyone I meet, pretty much.Today, I had a conversation with a coworker."I want that one house tha...
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Hi All,The recent tragedy of the realtor that was killed while showing a home serves as an unfortunate reminder of the potential risks posed by door knocking. I never go alone; I usually take my sister. Even though...
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I was pressured to place an auction bid on behalf of an acquaintance of mine. I didn't want to do it because I wanted the house for myself, but he told me he would hire someone else (and outbid me) if I said no. ...
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So I just had a verbal off market deal in place with a real estate agent in the Smokies who owns a lot of his own cabins (this is not someone who is active here!). I saw the property today while I was in town, agreed ...
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What are some signs you see of any area that is gentrifying or about to gentrify to any veteran real estate investors or even people who have seen a bad neighborhood turn into well developed in a period of time ?