I am about to close on my first rental using the BRRRR strategy. We (my son and I) will be doing most of the work ourselves including roofing, siding, gutters, windows, new floors, kitchen, bath, and paint. No major f...

I read a lot about hiring a contractor.  Has anyone ever calculated how much they saved by not using contractors and did most of the rehab work themselves? Or the real question is what percent of costs is going to con...

Hello BiggerPockets! I am a relatively new investor (2+ years) in the Columbus, Ohio market. I have trained two cold callers and am trying to go after more off-market leads for myself and fellow investors.One issue th...

New 4-family property.At Arch Buyers, my business partner and I just bought a 4-family property in St. Louis County. The two upstairs units have brand new duct-work. There are furnaces in the attic to provide forced a...

First off, I did search forums and these are the two answers I got :

"My best advice and the safest advice for you, don't estimate rehab costs for them. There are too many factors outside of your control that contrib...

Wife and I moved into a house in dire need of repairs....wife wanted the house b/c she wanted a fixer-upper. What needed to be repaired was the kitchen needed to be completely redone (water damage ruined everything, l...

This is my first post. I just bought my first property and it needs a bit of paint before we can put her on the rental market. I've always applied paint the old fashioned way - with a rolller and brush. But I'm thi...

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I hope everyones 2012 is going as great as 2011 went. website. I have both enjoyed and learned a tremendous amount from reading the posts and blogs from this site. I use the postcard ...

Hello BP, I’ve got a new guy question that I just want to check my mindset on.Obviously the name of the game in buy and hold is cash flow. So, when I’m evaluating deals, especially my first few, how much emphasis do y...

We own 1.41 acres with a 7,000 sq ft 2-story commercial building in Bentonville, AR about .2 miles from the new (under construction) Walmart Home Office Campus. Our listing with a realtor just expired and we're not re...